China News Service, Beijing, May 23 (Ying Ni Li Jingze) What is the dignity of cultural heritage?
Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, the sixth president of the Palace Museum, and a special researcher of the Central Museum of Literature and History, said in an exclusive interview with China News Agency "China Focus Face-to-face" recently that a living course is the dignity of cultural heritage.
Shan Jixiang pointed out that China's world heritage not only has a glorious history in the past, but also should move into the future healthily today.
The life course is the dignity of cultural heritage.
Only dignified cultural heritage can become a positive force for economic and social development in today's real life, and can benefit more people.
People know the significance of the protection of these cultural heritages, and they will enthusiastically participate in the protection actions.
Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics, the sixth president of the Palace Museum, and a special researcher of the Central Museum of Literature and History, accepted an exclusive interview with China News Agency "Focus on China".
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He pointed out that when everyone comes to protect cultural heritage, cultural heritage can be more dignified. This is a virtuous circle.
Otherwise, people don’t know what these cultural heritage means to real life, so they don’t pay much attention to it, and even if they don’t pay attention to protecting it in urban construction, it becomes the burden of urban construction. This is the bad cycle to be avoided.
At present, the total number of “world heritages” in China has reached 55, making it one of the countries with the most world heritages.
In this regard, Shan Jixiang pointed out that China does not value the most quantity, the key is to rescue and protect a large number of precious cultural heritage resources in this application process.
Taking the Great Wall as an example, he pointed out that in the past it was always a cultural relic protection unit in the form of points, such as Shanhaiguan, Badaling, Jiayuguan, etc. However, when applying for world cultural heritage, the Chinese government declared the Great Wall as an entire project. The Great Wall in several provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in various historical periods has become a world heritage site, which is very shocking and shows that China’s awareness of heritage protection is strengthening.
The successful declaration of Mount Tai as a world heritage of culture and nature has created a new category for the declaration of world heritage.
He said that before the world heritage, there were only two types of cultural heritage and natural heritage. Taishan succeeded as a dual heritage, and the world heritage began to have a third category. After that, China's Lushan, Qingcheng, Emei, Wutai, Wuyi, Song, and Huangshan were only Entered into the world heritage.
"This has completely changed the pattern of our past protection, and also changed the understanding of the traditional cultural relics protection in the past." (End)