Hepu, Guangxi, lets history speak, and the ancient Han Dynasty shows a new look

　　China News Service, Beihai, April 2, topic: Hepu, Guangxi lets history speak, and the ancient Han Dynasty shows a new look

　　Author Zhai Liqiang Wang Weichen Lin Jun

　　In the southern suburbs of Hepu County, Beihai City, Guangxi, there is an ancient pagoda, Hepu Wenchang Pagoda. It has gone through more than 400 years of vicissitudes. It was once hidden among eucalyptus forests and weeds. shy.

Today, under the guidance of the guiding ideology of "let cultural relics speak, let history speak, and let culture speak", Hepu Wenchang Pagoda has torn off the half-covered "veil" and stands confidently on the edge of National Highway 209, which is in harmony with the culture of Hepu Han Dynasty. The museum faces each other across the road, showing the new look of this ancient county of Hepu to the public.

The lake blue glass unearthed in Hepu belongs to the early Eastern Han Dynasty and is now in the collection of the Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum.

　　Hepu was the seat of the county seat of Hepu County in the Han Dynasty. It was also the departure port of the Maritime Silk Road and an important foreign trade port in the Han Dynasty.

After more than 2,000 years of historical changes, although the original appearance of Hepu ancient city and ancient port no longer exists, a large number of scenic spots and historical sites represented by the ten thousand tombs of the Han Dynasty, the ancient city of Dalang, and the ruins of the straw shoe village have been left, which have nurtured a unique Hepu Han Dynasty Culture, Maritime Silk Culture.

The profound historical and cultural heritage makes the business card of "Hanjun Hepu Haisi Pearl" particularly beautiful.

　　The Wenchang Pagoda is now located in the Hepu Maritime Silk Road Site Park, which is a newly created national 4A-level tourist attraction in 2021.

Zhou Minshuang, deputy director of the Hepu County Heritage Application Center, introduced that there are hundreds of ancient tombs in the scenic area alone, and the Sifangling area belongs to the key protection area of ​​Hepu Han Tombs.

The picture is taken by Zhai Liqiang, Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum

　　The Wenchang Pagoda and Sifangling area used to be a wilderness with dense trees, overgrown weeds and private graves.

It is understood that since 2017, Hepu has successively launched the construction of tomb protection exhibition and environmental remediation projects in the key protected areas of the Han Tomb Group, Sifangling Intensive Area and Wenchangta Area, and has invested a lot of energy to improve the overall landscape and quality of the Maritime Silk Heritage Site. The supporting facilities have become the first Maritime Silk Road Cultural Heritage Park in Guangxi, which has become a leisure check-in point for the public.

　　In the past five years, Hepu County has studied and issued documents such as the Action Plan on Strengthening the Protection and Utilization of Cultural Heritage on the Maritime Silk Road, and invested more than 200 million yuan to effectively strengthen the protection, research and utilization of cultural relics, and promote the integrated development of history, culture and tourism.

The Hepu Han Tombs were included in the "Hundred Years of Archaeological Discoveries", and the Hepu Han Tombs, the Dalang Ancient City Site and the Caoxie Village Site were included in the preliminary list of China's World Cultural Heritage.

The construction of infrastructure has been further improved, historical and cultural resources have been dug deeply, and the integrated development of cultural relics, history, cultural display and tourism has been promoted, and national 4A-level tourist attractions such as the Maritime Silk Road Cultural Heritage Park, the Haisi First Port and Hepu Departure Port have been successfully built. , wrote a new chapter in the high-quality development of the Hepu Haisi application, cultural relics protection and cultural tourism industry integration.

　　According to reports, the Hepu Han Tombs, together with the Mangdang Mountain Han Tombs in Yongcheng, Henan, the Santai Lijiang Han Tombs in Sichuan, and the Han Tombs in Xianxian County, Hebei, are known as the four major Han tombs in China. The most concentrated, most numerous and most diverse areas.

　　Since the 1950s, more than 1,000 tombs have been excavated in Hepu, and more than 20,000 pieces (sets) of cultural relics have been unearthed, including a large number of cultural relics related to the Maritime Silk Road.

In the Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum alone, there are more than 5,000 cultural relics in the collection.

Most of these cultural relics date from the middle of the Western Han Dynasty to the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In addition to gold, silk and other exported products, there are also imported products such as Persian clay pots, Roman glass bowls, aquamarine, crystal, agate and spices.

　　Lian Shiming, curator of the Hepu Han Dynasty Culture Museum, said that the records of these cultural relics and historical materials, as well as the research of experts, have confirmed that Hepu was the earliest departure port of the Maritime Silk Road in the Han Dynasty and an important window for the opening of the Han Dynasty to the outside world.

　　It is understood that Hepu is speeding up the compilation of the Haisi application for heritage, accelerating the construction of the Guangxi archaeological specimen warehouse project, creating good conditions for the arrangement, restoration and display of cultural relics, and for Guangxi to cooperate with domestic and foreign archaeological and cultural institutions to establish ASEAN archaeological research, The academic exchange center base for the protection of cultural relics in ASEAN creates conditions to promote the research and application of the Maritime Silk Road culture.

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