Chinanews.com, Nanjing, November 19th (Reporter Shen Ran) Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xin’s plum vase, colorful feather and human-pattern pan mouth pot, tiles from the Six Dynasties, Eastern Jin colored glaze, and statues of "Nanjing people" in the Neolithic Age... The 40th anniversary of being listed in the first batch of famous historical and cultural cities in China. On the 19th, the "Model City of Millennium Cultural Capital--The 40th Anniversary Exhibition of Nanjing Historical and Cultural City" opened in Nanjing Museum (Chaotian Palace). Displayed on the same stage in the exhibition, it opened the eyes of the audience.
Nanjing has undergone the revision and implementation of the 1984, 1992, 2002 and 2010 editions of the "Nanjing Famous Historic and Cultural City Protection Plan".
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In June 1982, Nanjing was included in the first batch of national historical and cultural cities.
This is also the first time that China has clearly defined a city that is particularly rich in cultural relics and has great historical and cultural value and revolutionary significance as a famous historical and cultural city. As of 2022, a total of 140 national historical and cultural cities have been announced.
Local people dressed in ancient costumes visited the exhibition.
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Not long after winning this honor, in order to better understand the "family background" of this ancient capital, Nanjing established a leading group for the census of cultural relics and historic sites to form a census team.
For decades, with the revision and implementation of the 1984, 1992, 2002 and 2010 editions of the "Nanjing Historical and Cultural City Protection Plan", through continuous exploration, discovery and research by archaeologists, a large number of national treasures have been rediscovered. Most of the cultural relics displayed in this exhibition are fine cultural relics excavated in the past 40 years.
The most well-known "one of the three wonders of Chinese porcelain", the blue and white plum vase of Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xin in the Yuan Dynasty, was very popular with the audience.
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"From the ancient cultural site of Yingpan Mountain in Nanjing discovered in 1982, to the tombs of the Six Dynasties in Changgang Village in the early 1980s; from the Xianheguan Gao family tomb in 1998, to the rescue archaeology of the healthy capital of the Six Dynasties after 2000, and more than ten years The ruins of the Dabaoen Temple, the tombs of the famous Dongwu general Ding Feng, etc. It can be said that with the implementation of each version of the protection plan for historical and cultural cities, the archaeological excavation and research work has achieved significant results.” Yue Yong, deputy director of Nanjing Museum Introduction, "The original intention of this exhibition is to show the public the work achievements of archaeological planners in the past 40 years, so that everyone can understand that this city has a very rich cultural heritage and diverse art types, which is important to the whole of China. Both culture and Yangtze River culture are an indispensable part.”
For example, two "national treasures among national treasures" are exhibited at the same time: the Yuan blue-and-white plum vase with Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xintu, which is known as "one of the three wonders of Chinese porcelain", and the Chinese underglaze painting technology that appeared nearly five years earlier. Centuries-old Wu-Western Jin Dynasty celadon underglaze colorful feather and human pattern plate mouth pot.
"National Treasures among National Treasures" that are rarely exhibited at the same time.
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"Both these two items have been included in the list of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad (territory) for exhibition, and they rarely show up at the same time. This is a very rare opportunity to see them at once." Yue Yong told a reporter from Chinanews.com, "The two Each piece of work is a stroke in the history of Chinese porcelain. In addition, there are Neolithic pottery human face statues, which are the earliest "Nanjing people" human face statues discovered in Nanjing so far; the glass bowls of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, It is very exotic, and it is a physical testimony of the exchanges between China and foreign countries at that time; the tiles of the Six Dynasties vividly display the faces of the ancients more than a thousand years ago in front of today's people."
"After the implementation of the fourth edition of the protection plan, Nanjing began to follow the development sequence of 'archaeological front'. Many precious cultural relics and sites here benefited from this, and were protected in advance and reappeared in front of people." Local The person in charge of the planning department said that since 1984, Nanjing has for the first time designated a number of key protection areas in the city with relatively concentrated natural scenery and cultural relics, creating a precedent for the systematic protection of famous cities in China. Important historical and cultural protection areas and underground relics control areas", "designating historical and cultural protection areas", "translating the main content of planning into urban policies and legal provisions", and so on. Regarding the inheritance of historical and cultural features, Nanjing is following the principle of "comprehensive protection, overall protection, and active protection" to protect historical and cultural resources more scientifically and properly, and to inherit excellent traditional culture.
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