"Ten Ancients" Relics Moisturize Culture Yangcheng
There are several square tables under the big banyan tree at the head of the village, and everyone sits under the shade of greenery, looking at the ancient village and talking about protection.
This is the scene at the "Nine Buddhas and Nine People Talk" event held recently on Jiufo Street, Huangpu District, Guangzhou City.
Around the protection of the "Ten Ancients", planning experts, cultural scholars, street officials, and village representatives exchanged ideas and collided with ideas.
The so-called "Ten Ancients" refer to 10 types of ancient relics including ancient villages, ancient trees, ancient houses, ancient temples, ancient lanes, ancient roads, ancient pagodas, ancient wells, ancient bridges and ancient docks.
Since the beginning of this year, Huangpu District has carried out comprehensive and in-depth rectification work, systematically sorting out and excavating the cultural and historical information of 10 types of ancient relics in the area, and revitalizing and utilizing the ancient relics in various forms that are popular with the masses.
On the basis of a comprehensive understanding of the "ten ancient" families, Huangpu District has extensively collected opinions from experts, scholars and villagers to provide a solid historical basis and ideas for urban renewal construction and community environmental governance in the district. The vitality highlights the rich and colorful historical and cultural heritage background.
Nostalgia under the big banyan tree
In April, the third "Nine Buddhas and Nine People Talks" and "Ten Ancients" protection and revitalization symposiums on Jiufo Street this year were held under the big banyan tree at the head of the village of Liantang Village.
He Donghua, an expert from Guangzhou Urban Planning, Survey and Design Institute, visited the village of Jiufo several times before coming to the meeting.
He noticed that there is a small axis on the front of Fengshui Hall in Liantang Village, and it is with this axis as the core that "mountain, water and ancient village" are connected as one.
Among the ancient villages in Guangdong, few still retain this kind of small axis order.
The "complete order and complete landscape" that He Donghua cherished is also a treasure in the eyes of Li Yan, a professor at the School of Architecture of South China University of Technology.
Li Yan reminded: "The three traditional villages of the Nine Buddhas have this commonality, that is, 'mountain, dwelling, pond, and field' are a complete protection system. In the next step of urban development and construction, we must ensure the continuation of the basic mountain dwelling model. "
"To hold this meeting under the banyan tree is full of greenery and nostalgia." Zheng Zhuowen, a member of the CPPCC Party Committee of Huangpu District, said that the protection of the "Ten Ancients" should not only pay attention to the protection of objects, but also tell good stories, so as to convey the cultural context from generation to generation. Handed down.
Chu Dajun, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Jiufo Street, Huangpu District, said: "The normalization of Jiufo Street's 'Nine Buddhas and Nine People Talk' activities is to allow 'two representatives and one member', experts, scholars and the general public to actively participate in rural revitalization, Historical and cultural protection is coming.”
Changzhou Street Shenjing Ancient Village is an ancient village with a history of more than 700 years.
Adhering to the concept of "joint participation and joint creation", before the implementation of the micro-renovation project of Shenjing Ancient Village, the street set up a "Shenjing Joint Construction Workshop" which was jointly participated by scholars, experts, social organizations, functional departments and villagers to explore old communities. Maximum balance between micro-renovation and traditional village protection.
Through communication and negotiation of many activities, the workshop reached a consensus with the villagers: to maintain a quiet, quiet and peaceful cultural atmosphere in the deep well.
Today, the renovated Shenjing is not a tourist area, but a "cultural and creative base for college students" dominated by creative product research and development, educational lectures, and a "slow life island" supplemented by leisure experience.
One tree, one file "one picture"
Walking into Liantang Village with a history of more than 700 years, you can see a 20-meter-high giant banyan on the side of Qingzhuo Bridge.
"This ancient tree is like our elders, witnessing the changes of our Liantang Village from generation to generation." Chen Yaosong, a villager of Liantang Village and a village history writer, said that the big banyan tree is said to be planted by Chen Shisikai Village, the ancestor of the Chen family in Liantang Village. For more than 700 years, he has been on the verge of death many times, and has been resurrected many times.
The evergreen old tree has not only become a story of Liantang Village, but also a true portrayal of the effectiveness of the protection and revitalization of the "Ten Ancient" cultural relics in Huangpu District.
In Chen Yaosong's impression, Liantang Village used to be dilapidated, but now the street attaches great importance to the protection of ancient relics, excavating the stories behind them, numbering and listing them for inspection, and compiling the history of the village.
According to statistics, the number of ancient and famous trees registered in Huangpu District is 5,208, accounting for about 53% of the total number of ancient and famous trees in Guangzhou, and about 3,096 trees are scattered in the front and back of houses in natural villages.
With the rapid development of urban construction, the problem of protecting and transplanting older fruit trees in front of and behind houses in natural villages is imminent.
In December last year, the "Work Plan for the Comprehensive Implementation of the Forest Chief System in Huangpu District of Guangzhou" was officially issued, which clearly stated "to carry out the informatization, digitization and intelligent life cycle management of ancient and famous trees".
The three-dimensional GIS information technology is used to establish a "one map" for one tree and one file, and all the ancient trees in the region are included in the electronic map system of ancient and famous trees.
In Lingtou Community, Changling Street, Huangpu District, several large branches with QR code signs are lush and leafy.
At present, Changling Street is implementing the "Story of Ancient Trees" protection project, excavating historical stories related to ancient and famous trees, and filming villagers' oral videos. People can scan the QR code on the tree to understand the history behind the ancient tree.
"Respect history, folk customs, and the needs of the masses, and you will gain more understanding and support." Shen Kai, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Changling Sub-district, felt this way.
Ancestral Hall Cantonese Opera Coffee Fragrance
Liantang Village is a traditional Chinese village and a famous historical and cultural village in Guangdong Province. The great ancestral hall in the village shows the ancient connotation of Liantang Village.
Shisi Chen Gong Temple was built in 1899 and rebuilt in 2013. It is as old as it was, and still retains the ancient style and charm.
Wu Feifan, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and a member of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, regards Liantang Village as a heritage base for Cantonese opera, and often brings his students here to sing and learn.
"The rich history of Liantang Village provides the soil for cultural inheritance." Wu Feifan said, "The Children's Cantonese Opera Inheritance Base is established here, so that children can absorb nutrients from cultural inheritance, make Cantonese Opera classrooms more vivid, and help the prosperity and renewal of the ancient village."
Among the 701 ancient relics of 10 categories in Huangpu District, the ancient relics of Liantang Village accounted for 36.
In addition to the ancient trees, there are 12 ancient wells first built in the Song Dynasty, the Shisi Chen Gong Temple built in the Qing Dynasty, as well as the Lingnan characteristic ancient buildings such as Hongyou Family School, Xiuchang Bookhouse, Yougong Book Room, and two Street, 11 alleys, and Qinglian Stage built in the 1950s.
The ancient relics have been carefully repaired and operated scientifically, and they have been rejuvenated with new vitality.
The "Chain Coffee" restaurant, the "Lotus Pond Moonlight" tea room, and the "Love Shan Lotus Pond" restaurant open to the outside world... The collision between the old and the new makes the historical and cultural relics "live" and attracts more and more young people working abroad. Villagers come back.
Yu Donglian, a villager who works in the "Chain Cafe", said that she has been married to Liantang for more than 10 years. She lives in Liantang and works and lives in the village. She is most satisfied with the current life.
In Wenchong Street, the key project of "Guangzhou Happiness Lane" has been extended, creating a new model for the activation of historical context.
"Guangzhou Xingfuli" mainly relies on 26 ancient buildings such as Wenchong Lu's Ancestral Hall, and builds exhibition halls such as the "Source of Happiness" Party Style and Family Style Museum, and the Party Magazine Centennial Culture Museum, giving the ancient buildings connotation and showing "activation" new charm.
"Cultural inheritance requires 'seeing people, seeing things and seeing life'. The protection, revitalization and utilization of the 'Ten Ancients' in Huangpu District presents a full picture of the region's history and culture by sub-regional and sub-category. Technology and industry are integrated, and the results of protection are shared by the masses." said Chen Wenchong, director of the Huangpu District Culture, Broadcasting and Tourism Bureau.
Cultural transmission of "things" and more transmission of "gods"
After starting the "Ten Ancient Relics" protection work, in order to find out more about the heritage of ancient relics in a more detailed and comprehensive way, Huangpu District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau took the lead in compiling the "Overview of Ancient Relics in Huangpu District" and the implementation of the ten categories of ancient relics protection and revitalization projects in Huangpu District. List (First Batch)" and other 6-volume series.
"In the protection of the 'Ten Ancients', we cooperated with grass-roots communities to complete a number of non-state-owned cultural relics protection projects. Cultural relics have been reborn and full of vitality." Chen Wencong said.
"We have tried every means to make the protection of famous cities more down-to-earth and closer to life." said Li Xian, head of the relevant divisions of the Guangzhou Development Zone Planning and Self-development Bureau. The protection information can be learned with a flick of a finger, and public participation further strengthens the effectiveness of the implementation of the system.”
Cultural inheritance requires both physical protection and spiritual inheritance.
Huangpu District has built 203 Fangzhi Stations in the whole district, realizing full coverage of Fangzhi Stations, streets and towns.
Created the brand of "Vibrant History Talks Guangzhou" Huangpu Talking Ancient Hall, formed a professional district-level "Ancient Talking" team, entered villages, schools, enterprises and institutions, and shared the historical stories of Guangzhou City and Huangpu District to the masses. To spread Lingnan culture and continue the historical context of Huangpu.
Cao Jin, director of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, commented: "The protection of Huangpu's 'Ten Ancients' is not just to carry out a net-like survey, meticulous management, and all-weather protection of visible objects, but to focus on excavation and attachment to the 'Ten Ancients'. The 'God' on the thing', that is, the story contained in the remains."
(Our reporter Wu Chunyan, our correspondent Zeng Ni, Fan Minling, Sun Xudong)