China News Service, Guangzhou, January 20th (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The reporter learned from the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism on the 20th that the Guangdong Provincial Government has recently approved and announced the "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit Danxia Mountain Cliff Protection Plan (2022-2035)" ( Hereinafter referred to as the "Planning"), the promulgation and implementation of the "Planning" provides an important basis for the protection, management and utilization of Danxia Mountain cliff carvings.
Danxia Mountain Cliff Carvings are located in Danxia Mountain, the only world natural heritage in Guangdong Province, in Renhua County, Shaoguan City.
Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, many literati have left 328 poems and articles and 68 cliff carvings on Danxia Mountain, including inscriptions, titles, inscriptions, poems, inscriptions, travel notes, etc.
The stone carvings are mainly engraved on the red sandstone walls, which complement each other with the red cliffs of the Red Cliff, forming a unique landscape of the unity of humanity and nature. It is an important material material for studying the development of local history and culture, and has high historical and artistic value. .
In March 2013, the Danxia Mountain Cliff Carvings were announced as the seventh batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
Stone carvings left by literati and inkmen on Danxia Mountain Photo courtesy of Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism
The "Plan" will be included in the national economic and social development plan and the overall land and space planning where Danxia Mountain is located. It is of great significance for correctly handling the relationship between cultural relic protection and economic construction, and maximally protecting the integrity and authenticity of the cliff stone carvings on Danxia Mountain and the environment. Significance.
In order to comprehensively understand and sort out the historical information of Danxia Mountain's cultural heritage, and to protect and inherit the unique cultural landscape on the steep cliffs, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism organized the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology to take the lead in December 2020 with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. A professional technical team has been formed to comprehensively carry out the investigation of the cultural heritage of Danxia Mountain. The phased results have been completed, and a series of books on the cultural heritage of Danxia Mountain, such as "Danxia Scenic Spots in the Clouds and Banjie", will be published in succession in the near future.
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