"Chaozhou is a famous cultural city with a long history. It is precious and rare. We must study her well, love this city, take good care of her, and build her well." On the afternoon of October 12, we were in Guangdong General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was on the inspection, visited the ancient city of Chaozhou and said something like this.
The ancient city of Chaozhou has a long history
Chaozhou is located at the easternmost tip of Guangdong Province, in the middle and lower reaches of the Hanjiang River. It is an ancient city with a long history.
As early as 1986, Chaozhou was declared a national historical and cultural city by the State Council.
On October 12, General Secretary Xi Jinping visited three landmarks in the ancient city of Chaozhou-Guangji Bridge, Guangji Tower, and Paifang Street.
Guangji Bridge was called Kangji Bridge in ancient times and Xiangzi Bridge. It was built in the seventh year of Gandao in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1171). It is located outside the east gate of the ancient city in Xiangqiao District, Chaozhou City. It spans the east and west banks of the Hanjiang River and has a total length of 518 meters.
It integrates beam bridges, floating bridges, and arch bridges, and is known as the four major ancient bridges in China along with Zhaozhou Bridge in Hebei, Lugou Bridge in Beijing and Luoyang Bridge in Fujian.
△Guangji Bridge
On the west side of Guangji Bridge, there is a palace-style three-story Xieshanding attic. It is the Guangji Tower, which is also called the East Tower locally.
Guangji Tower was built in the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370). It has a history of more than 600 years. It is the most majestic one of the seven gates of the original Chaozhou ancient city and the main symbol of Chaozhou.
Not far from the Guangji Tower, you will arrive at Paifang Street, the political, economic and cultural axis of the ancient city of Chaozhou.
On the 1948-meter street, 23 ancient archways were unfolded for the first time, hence the name "Peifang Street".
The current Paifang Street is a gathering place for Chaozhou’s outstanding traditional culture.
Many shops have formed a "front shop and back room" pattern, focusing on display of intangible cultural heritage and traditional crafts such as tide embroidery, wood carving, ceramics, straw painting, Gongfu tea.
One bridge, one floor, and one street are the epitome of the historical and cultural heritage of the ancient city of Chaozhou.
The general secretary along the way has treasured the history and culture of this place.
He said that Chaozhou embroidery, Chaozhou carving, Chaozhou sculpture, Chaozhou opera, Gongfu tea and Chaozhou cuisine are all treasures of Chinese culture.
Chaoshan culture is an important part of Lingnan culture and an important branch of Chinese culture.
The general secretary also expressed expectations for the development of Chaozhou: "Chaozhou has a lot of treasures, and these years have also been thriving, prosperous, and promising. I hope that our elders and comrades from Chaozhou will seize this great opportunity, take advantage of this opportunity, and start doing things. , Continue to build Chaozhou well."
Culture is the soul of the city
As of June last year, the State Council had announced 134 national historical and cultural cities.
These historical and cultural cities are the concentrated bearers of Chinese culture.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always cared about the protection and development of historical and cultural cities.
In 2002, Comrade Xi Jinping, then governor of Fujian Province, wrote the preface for the book "Fuzhou Ancient House" by Fujian People's Publishing House.
He said that Fujian has four national historical and cultural cities: Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, and Changting. This is the pride of Fujian.
"Protecting ancient buildings and cultural relics means preserving history, preserving the context of the city, and preserving the invisible fine traditions of historical and cultural cities."
△ "Fuzhou Ancient House"
Over the years, protecting the city’s historical and cultural heritage like cherishing one's own life, guarding the "soul of the city", and inheriting the historical context are things that General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized.
Two years ago, the general secretary visited Yongqingfang, the historical and cultural district of Xiguan, Liwan District, Guangzhou City during an inspection in Guangdong.
He pointed out that urban planning and construction should attach great importance to the protection of history and culture, do not rush for quick success, and avoid major demolition and construction.
It is necessary to adopt more "embroidery" skills of micro-reconstruction, and pay attention to the inheritance and continuation of civilization.
△On August 22, Guangzhou Yongqingfang was officially listed as a national 4A tourist attraction.
On the same day, Guangzhou's first intangible heritage block also opened in Yongqingfang to welcome guests.
△Lion dance cultural and creative production
In February last year, the General Secretary emphasized during an inspection of the Qianmen East District of Beijing that the historical sites, cultural relics, and cultural heritage of a city are part of the life of the city.
It is necessary to unify the renovation and upgrading of the old city with the protection of historical relics and the preservation of historical context, and the integration of history, culture and modern life.
When visiting Shanghai in November last year, the general secretary pointed out that culture is the soul of the city.
It is necessary to properly handle the relationship between protection and development, pay attention to the continuation of the historical context of the city, respect and treat the old buildings in the city like the "old people", preserve the historical and cultural memory of the city, and let people remember the history and the homesickness.
"The way of protecting the city", the general secretary has always
The protection system of historical and cultural cities in my country was formally established in 1982.
In recent years, especially since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has protected a large number of precious historical and cultural heritages in the process of rapid urbanization, continued the historical context, and protected cultural genes.
At the same time, the demolition of the real and the fake, the demolition of the old and the new, the development-type protection, and the split-type protection have been repeatedly prohibited.
Eighteen years ago, when Xi Jinping wrote the preface for "Fuzhou Ancient House", he focused on analyzing two dialectical relationships: one is the relationship between protection and development.
He said that as a leader of a historical and cultural city, we must attach importance to economic development as well as the protection of the ecological environment and the human environment.
The second is the relationship between commonality and individuality.
"In urban construction and development, attention should be paid to absorbing the language of traditional architecture, which is conducive to maintaining the individuality of the city."
△ Since Paifang Street was restored and opened to the public in 2009, a large number of residential inns, cultural and creative studios, and special exhibition halls have settled in.
Over the years, the general secretary has consistently followed these distinctive concepts of guarding historical and cultural cities.
Since the beginning of this year, the General Secretary has repeatedly emphasized in domestic inspections that the development of tourism should not be over-commercialized; it is necessary to avoid "a thousand cities with one face and ten thousand buildings."
To protect historical and cultural cities and inherit historical and cultural heritage is to protect the past glory of the Chinese nation, today's resources and hope for the future, to preserve the Chinese cultural heritage passed down from generation to generation, and to guard our common spiritual home.
To love this city, we must take good care of her and build her well.
Producer丨Shen Yong Zhao Xue Xue
Chief Author丨Huimin Liu
Vision丨Chen Kuo
Editor丨Wang Jiyang