Focus Interview丨Culture empowers a better life Beijing presses the "fast-forward button" for the construction of a national cultural center
Beijing is a thousand-year-old capital. From 1153, the Jin Dynasty officially established the capital in Yanjing, known as the Central Capital. It has a history of nearly 900 years.
Every brick, every hutong, every place name in Beijing city has a story hidden.
In addition to numerous historical and cultural sites, Beijing also has numerous museums, art galleries and first-class literary and art groups.
How to make better use of the rich human resources to promote the construction of Beijing National Cultural Center?
The first Beijing Cultural Forum opened in Beijing on July 25. With the permanent theme of "Inheritance, Innovation and Mutual Learning" and the annual theme of "Promoting Cultural Innovation and Empowering a Better Life", the forum invites guests from all walks of life to brainstorm and make suggestions. Cultural development and promotion of cultural innovation.
Is this the Beijing you know?
Magnificent and subtle, vicissitudes and abundance, open and inclusive.
Here, the ancient and the modern meet, the local and the international blend together. Who would have the impression that Beijing is not related to culture?
In order to do a good job in the big article of capital culture, press the "fast forward button" of the construction of the national cultural center. On July 25, the first Beijing Cultural Forum kicked off.
Wang Binglin, Dean of the Institute of Communist Party History and Party Construction at Beijing Normal University:
It is very meaningful to hold such a cultural forum, because culture needs to be exchanged. In the collision of exchange ideas, we can better inherit and innovate.
In recent years, Beijing has been positioned as a political center, a cultural center, an international exchange center, and a scientific and technological innovation center. The urban civilization has become increasingly popular, and great progress has been made in the protection of historical and cultural cities. The Great Wall Cultural Belt, the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, Xishan Mountain The construction of the "Three Cultural Belts" of the Yongding River Cultural Belt has achieved remarkable results, with masterpieces of literature and art emerging one after another, and the cultural industry has been upgraded in quality.
In this context, Beijing strives to make the Beijing Cultural Forum a national brand forum in the cultural field.
The forum takes "Inheritance, Innovation and Mutual Learning" as the permanent theme, and "Promoting Cultural Innovation to Empower a Better Life" as the annual theme.
Zhao Weidong, deputy director of the daily work of the propaganda department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee:
Our country has built a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, and is now moving towards the goal of a powerful modern socialist country, which is the second centenary goal.
It is an important task for us to promote cultural innovation, create and produce more high-quality cultural products, and meet people's multi-level and diverse spiritual and cultural needs.
As a national cultural center, Beijing should play a benchmarking role in this regard, so we set this annual theme as "promoting cultural innovation and empowering a better life".
"Promoting cultural innovation and empowering a better life" is the starting point and end point of the forum. Many exchanges and discussions on the forum focus on enhancing the people's sense of cultural acquisition.
The release of the "Ten Major Events in the Construction of National Cultural Centers in 2021" is a closely watched link in this year's Beijing Cultural Forum.
The 100-year-old theatrical performance "The Great Journey" was held in the National Stadium, and ten major events such as the History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China and the Red Building of Peking University became the new red landmark of the capital were selected.
The selection of these ten major events is produced by a combination of online voting and expert review. In the online voting, the archaeology of the Liulihe site has a high voice.
In Dongjialin Village, Liulihe Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, when people in the lively forum venue were applauding for the archaeology of the Liulihe site to be selected as the "Ten Major Events in the Construction of National Cultural Centers in 2021", the excavation work here is still quiet and orderly. continue.
Since 1962, the archaeological work at the Liulihe site has gone through a whole Jiazi.
In the years of continuous exploration, it has answered the key question of where is the earliest source of Beijing's city, and thus won the reputation of "the source of Beijing's city".
Although it has been quiet in recent years, it is believed that the answer to the history of the Liulihe site is more than that.
In 2019, with the latest concepts and technologies in place, the archaeological work at the large site will be restarted again, and important achievements will be made in 2021: the newly unearthed bronze inscriptions such as bronze swastikas record the history of Zhaogong Jianyan, which was divided into seals during the Western Zhou Dynasty. Witness of the system of ritual and music.
Guo Jingning, director of the Beijing Institute of Archaeology and head of the Liulihe site archaeology project:
Its significance is to extend the axis of Beijing's history, to fill the gaps in the literature, and to advance the origin of Beijing's city-building history to 3,000 years ago.
Providing the earliest evidence of cultural relics for the 3,000-year-old city history of Beijing and consolidating the "source of Beijing city", the archaeology of the Liulihe site has rekindled people's sense of pride in Beijing's long history.
Archaeology is very far and very close to people's lives. It has revealed the mystery again and again, allowing ordinary people to penetrate the fog of history and find their roots in culture.
The essence of ancient ideology and culture learned through archaeology constantly nourishes the historical foundation of the city, enriches people's cognition, and helps them build cultural confidence.
In addition to spiritual nourishment, the project leader has already conceived how to return cultural heritage to the public and serve the public's better life.
The fusion and collision of time-honored history and culture and modernization have enabled many people living in Beijing to have a good historical accumulation in aesthetic appreciation. At the same time, they have a broad international vision, so they have a higher demand for spiritual and cultural life.
During the forum, in addition to the main forum, four sub-forums were set up for exchanges and discussions on the theme of historical and cultural inheritance and development, cultural and technological integration and development, literary and artistic excellence and dissemination, and cultural exchange and cooperation.
The construction of the three cultural belts, the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, the Xishan Yongding River Cultural Belt, and the Great Wall Cultural Belt, is the main achievement of Beijing's cultural construction in recent years, and it is also one of the key discussions and exchanges in the sub-forum on the inheritance and development of Beijing's history and culture.
In the process of promoting the construction of the national cultural center in Beijing, the construction of the three cultural belts has frequently emerged.
Xihai Wetland Park is one of the key construction contents of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt. It has been called Jishuitan since the Yuan Dynasty. It is the northern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and has rich cultural relics of the Grand Canal.
But before 2018, many illegal buildings around the Xihai Wetland Park occupy the river bank, and the water quality deteriorates.
In order to revitalize this water area and create a landscape with historical temperature, in May 2018, the Xicheng District of Beijing demolished the illegal buildings here, opened up all the roads around the lake, and built a 1,300-meter scenic plank road around the lake.
Zhang Ruisheng, Director of the Management Office of Shichahai Scenic Area, Xicheng District, Beijing:
The iron sluice gate at the water inlet and the pine forest gate are all relics left over from history, which have been preserved through improvement and repair. The ultimate goal is to restore the lake to the people. , Return to the people, let the people have a better hydrophilic environment, and show our culture of Shichahai Sea.
In recent years, with the in-depth implementation of the national innovation-driven development strategy, technological innovation has become an important driving force for traditional culture.
A tourist is admiring the three-colored camel-carrying figurine of the Tang Dynasty, a national first-class cultural relic. Although he did not move a step in front of the screen, he did not make a sound, but the pattern of the cultural relic on the screen was constantly changing. These changes were actually controlled by the visitor's thoughts. , it sounds incredible, but the brainwave artifact interaction system makes this a reality.
In addition to changing the position of the cultural relics, the many music and dance figurines holding various musical instruments among the camel-carrying figurines can also be separated in the interaction, allowing the audience to complete the intimate interaction with the cultural relics according to their own wishes and interests. impossible.
At present, the park has become the main carrier for the high-quality development of Beijing's cultural industry.
More than 88% of the enterprises in the innovation workshop of E9 District, where this cultural technology company is located, are cultural and technological enterprises, showing the clustering benefits of industrial development.
Culture makes life better, and technology can give culture its wings.
In the sub-forum on the integration of culture and technology, the guests communicated on the theme of innovation, empowerment and development.
Qi Shuyu, professor of the Central Party School (National School of Administration):
What I am sharing today is the construction of cultural big data as a key word, and I am talking about the concept of data openness and sharing in the construction of cultural big data.
At this Beijing Cultural Forum, heads of government departments and cultural units, experts and scholars, well-known writers, entertainers and grassroots cultural workers focused on promoting the construction of a socialist cultural power, writing a new chapter in the integration of culture and tourism, and strengthening the construction of national cultural centers. These achievements will provide important reference for Beijing to better build a national cultural center.
Chen Mingjie, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics:
To provide the people with better spiritual and cultural products and to enhance the people's spiritual strength, this is the purpose of our culture.
Closely adhere to the people-centered concept, really need cultural identity, and let us feel the power of culture in the process.
Beijing's unique ancient capital culture, red culture, Beijing-style culture and innovative culture have been integrated into all aspects of urban development and people's lives, making Beijing's unique urban charm and building a solid foundation for Beijing to build a national cultural center.
Culture is the soul of a city, it needs protection and inheritance, as well as activation and innovation.
Just like the permanent theme of the Beijing Cultural Forum "Inheritance, Innovation and Mutual Learning", in which inheritance is the root, innovation is the path, and mutual learning is the method. To treat cultural development with such an attitude, to strengthen the foundation, maintain integrity and innovation, can Tell the stories of Beijing and China well, and radiate the brilliance of the Chinese cultural era.