China News Service, Longyan, January 26th, title: Shan Jixiang speaks for Tulou: From the "gatekeeper" of the Forbidden City to the promoter of World Heritage

  China News Agency reporter Ying Ni Lin Chunyin

  "I used to be the gatekeeper of the Forbidden City. Now I am the promoter of the World Heritage." Shan Jixiang said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency recently.

  As the sixth dean of the Palace Museum, Shan Jixiang introduced cultural innovation, inventory of family properties, and restoration of the palace, making the people truly feel that "the cultural relics of the Forbidden City are coming to life."

At the same time, Shan Jixiang traveled to more than 9,000 rooms in the Forbidden City, and the anecdote of the Forbidden City where more than 20 pairs of cloth shoes were worn out spread like wildfire, earning him the elegant title of "the director of cloth shoes".

  After retiring from the presidency of the Palace Museum, the 66-year-old Shan Jixiang and several young people in the film and television industry jointly formed a "cloth shoes men's group" in the variety show "A Thousand Miles of Walking Alone-China in the Heritage" Travel thousands of miles and visit Chinese heritage sites."

The program will be broadcast on Zhejiang Satellite TV at the end of January this year.

  Not long ago, Shan Jixiang, together with stars such as Ma Boqian, Huang Jue, Zhang Xinzhe, walked into the world cultural heritage "Fujian Tulou" Yongding Scenic Area, telling the story of Tulou, so that more people can understand the world heritage and better spread it to the world. Excellent Chinese traditional culture.

  "Tulou looks like a material, but it actually implies a lot of spiritual things, the perseverance and perseverance from generation to generation." Shan Jixiang spoke for Tulou.

  Located in Hongkeng Village, Hukeng Town, Yongding District, Longyan City, Fujian Province, Zhencheng Building, commonly known as Bagua Building, is magnificent, with exquisite and changeable interior space design, and can be called a masterpiece of Chinese and Western living soil residential architecture.

And the Chengqi Building, located in Gaobei Village, Gaotou Township, Yongding District, Longyan City, is "four stories high, four circles, four hundred up and down; the circle is in the middle and circle, and it has gone through three hundred years of vicissitudes."

  "Fujian Tulou" gave Shan Jixiang a shock, which made him not stingy about "Fujian Tulou".

He believes that throughout the world, famous heritages such as the Egyptian Pyramid Complex, the Parthenon Temple in Greece, and the Roman Colosseum in Italy are all built with the power of the country, and the earth buildings are built on such a large scale by the people. The complex of buildings is "a miracle of mankind."

  In Shan Jixiang's eyes, Tulou is the construction concept of Hakka people who draw on local materials during the migration process to maintain harmony between man and nature, and the unity of nature and man. It is also a testimony of the wisdom, unity and cooperation of the Hakka people and the inheritance of the Hakka people from generation to generation.

  Shan Jixiang admired the craftsman's spirit and creativity vividly reflected in the construction of the earth building.

He said that from site selection, ramming earth to tiling, the craftsmen are meticulous and continue to create with respect for nature and customs, which makes the earth building a unique world heritage in the world.

  "After 46 earth buildings became World Heritage Sites, they have all been repaired and protected." Shan Jixiang told reporters, "From the traditional raw earth buildings in the past, to today’s restoration with raw materials and original techniques, the preservation conditions are better than what I had seen before. it is good."

  Shan Jixiang noticed that Tulou is the emotional bond between overseas Chinese and their hometown. “Think of Tulou and home, and Tulou has become a world heritage site. It enjoys a good reputation in the world and they are willing to support the development of their hometown.

  Currently, China has 55 World Heritage Sites, ranking first in the world in total.

From Sichuan Qiang clan towers to Xiamen Gulangyu International Architecture, from "Fujian Tulou" to the ancient tea garden of Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, Yunnan, Shan Jixiang believes that these vernacular buildings show the local culture and are "architectural dialects", which constitute the five thousand years of Chinese architecture. Civilization is also the type of cultural heritage that can best convey people's homesickness.

  After eating Hakka dishes in Tulou, Shan Jixiang remembered Hakka noodles and Tulou sauce, "This is a local culture and the taste of hometown."

Shan Jixiang encouraged the people in the Tulou to pass on the Hakka culture and the spirit of solidarity, cooperation, and family cultivation and family learning contained in the Tulou.

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