The Nanyue Ancient Post Road originated in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was the main route for the Central Plains people to enter Guangdong and the Lingnan business activities in history. It was also an important passage for the Maritime Silk Road to extend inland. It is an important epitome of the historical development of Guangdong and a continuation of the cultural context.
The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism that since 2016, Guangdong has taken the lead in carrying out the protection and utilization of ancient post roads in southern Guangdong, and has formed a number of innovative practices integrating heritage protection, cultural mining, rural revitalization and regional coordinated development. results.
Under the guidance of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and other departments, universities and research institutions in the province have established a number of ancient post road research centers or practice bases to carry out in-depth archaeology, research, popular science publicity and activation and utilization of ancient post roads.
The Nanyue Ancient Post Road has become an extremely striking new model for the revitalization and utilization of heritage routes at home and abroad.
The Nanyue Ancient Post Road is not "one road", but a system of criss-crossing roads, water systems, towns, and villages.
In Zhanglin and Shantou, the important nodes of the ancient post road, the Nanyue Ancient Post Road Culture Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University has digitized and digitized precious documents such as "Chaoshan Overseas Chinese Approval" and "Shantou Modern City Map", which preserve the temperature of the city and people, making it a convenient Retrievable and easy-to-use public cultural resources.
The Guangdong Provincial Urban and Rural Planning and Design Research Institute team has deeply studied the central red traffic line and the "leftist" culture of southern Guangdong. alive again.
The cultural information on the ancient post road is diverse and beautiful.
The Nanyue Ancient Post Road Music Production Research Center of Guangdong Audio-Visual Publishing House conducts research, value extraction and resurrection presentation of the ancient post road music cultural connotation, and builds the Nanyue Ancient Post Road music database dissemination platform.
"The Archives of Lingnan Sounds on the Ancient Post Road in Nanyue" records those ordinary but irreplaceable sounds; "The Ancient Sounds of the Four Seasons of the Post Road: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter" uses the movements of the four seasons to string together a rich variety of Lingnan music.
Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts China Southern Guangdong Ancient Post Road Research Center focuses on the historical and cultural inheritance and art education of young people, and continues to hold Art Road Study Tour and China Southern Guangdong Ancient Post Road Children's Painting Competition.
The ancient post road is a humanistic road as well as a natural road.
The Nanyue Ancient Post Road Research Center of South China Agricultural University has carried out a series of studies such as the investigation of plant resources along the ancient post road.
The ancient post road is very "ancient". The Nanyue Ancient Post Road Research Center of Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has carried out a large number of surveys and researches on the remains of linear ancient roads; the ancient post road is also very "new". For post road planning and restoration of historical relics, the team from Guangzhou University started the revitalization project "Old Road Home" next to the Hakka Weilong House and He Xinwu at the post station node of the Lianping section of the ancient Guangdong-Jiangxi post road in Heyuan.
The ancient post road belongs to China as well as the world.
The Nanyue Ancient Post Road Art and Culture Research Center of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies organized the "2020 Ancient Taoism Academic Discussion and Nanyue Ancient Post Road International Communication Summit Forum", and held a series of international academic exchange activities with the theme of Nanyue Ancient Post Road.
Guangzhou Daily All Media Reporter Bu Songzhu