China News Service, Lanzhou, June 16 (Reporter Ding Si) Cheng Liang, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Gansu Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, said in Lanzhou on the 15th that 236 grotto temples in Gansu are widely distributed along the Silk Road, forming a grotto that stretches for thousands of miles. The Art Gallery is an important witness of the exchange and integration of Chinese civilization and the Silk Road civilization; more than 9,000 earthen ruins are dotted with stars, and they are the core resources of the treasure house of the Chinese nation's cultural resources.
However, due to the complex development of diseases in cave temples and soil sites, and higher requirements for the occurrence environment, their protection and application research and technology research and development have always attracted much attention.
On the same day, the cultural relics protection scientific journal "Research on the Protection of Grottoes and Earth Sites", sponsored by the Dunhuang Research Institute, edited and published by the editorial department of "Research on the Protection of Grottoes and Earth Sites", was inaugurated and published by the Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism.
The purpose of its publication is to focus on the protection of grottoes and earthen sites, to publish the latest research results and methods in the fields of scientific and technological archaeology and digitization of cultural relics, to promote scientific research on cultural heritage protection, and to promote the innovation and development of cultural heritage protection and academic exchanges.
Cheng Liang said that the establishment of this publication will provide Gansu with new kinetic energy and play a new role in giving full play to the advantages of grottoes and earthen sites in cultural relics resources, protection technology and talent reserves, and speeding up the construction of "model" and "highland". Provide theoretical support for the preservation of cultural relics in the province.
At the same time, promote the protection of cultural relics to help the exploration of the origin of Chinese civilization, the research of Chinese history, and the development of culture, etc., and widely integrate into life and break the circle.
Grotto temples and earthen ruins are an important part of my country's splendid cultural heritage. They have witnessed the continuous evolution of Chinese civilization and the great process of multicultural exchanges and mutual learning. They have unparalleled historical, artistic and scientific value.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the country has raised the cause of cultural heritage protection to an unprecedented height. The cause of the protection of cave temples and earthen ruins has grown from nothing, and today has developed into a fusion of physics, chemistry, archaeology, geology, biology, and humanities. A large number of outstanding scientific research achievements have emerged.
In 2020, the General Office of the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening the Protection and Utilization of Grotto Temples" to guide and support the development of the protection of cave temples and earthen sites, bringing new opportunities and giving new missions to the protection and development of caves and earthen sites.
Su Bomin, president of the Dunhuang Research Institute and editor-in-chief of "Research on the Protection of Grottoes and Earth Sites", said that the Dunhuang Research Institute is the earliest scientific research unit in my country engaged in the protection of cave temples, murals and soil sites.
The institute has strong scientific research strength in cave temples, murals, soil site protection, cultural relics digitization, cultural heritage protection theory, etc., and is in a leading position in China.
Cultural relics protection technology is also used in the protection of immovable cultural relics in countries along the “Belt and Road”.
Su Bomin said that in recent years, Dunhuang Research Institute has carried out in-depth cooperation with many cultural relics protection research institutions and colleges and universities at home and abroad in the direction of grotto temples and earthen ruins, including joint training of talents, protection and utilization, digital display and other projects, which have gained extensive influence. force.
The correct scientific research orientation, strong scientific research strength and extensive domestic and foreign influence also support the successful establishment of the "Research on the Protection of Grottoes and Earth Sites".
It is reported that the journal currently has columns for cave temple protection, mural protection, soil site protection, scientific and technological archaeology, digitization of cultural relics, protection materials and techniques, cultural heritage protection theory, protection and restoration cases, etc., covering cave temples, murals, and soil sites. Conservation research, scientific and technological archaeology, digitization of cultural relics and other major fields will be added and adjusted according to the progress of cultural heritage protection theory and the innovative development of cultural relics technology.
(Finish)