China News Service, Beijing, March 9th: Representative members call for science to “awaken” agricultural cultural heritage

　　Author Kan Li Yang Dayong Li Chaoqing

　　"We must pay attention to the scientific activation and development of agricultural cultural heritage and build a high-value tourism space." Liang Liuke, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of the Henan Provincial Committee of China Democratic National Construction Association, called in an interview with China News Service during the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress.

　　Agricultural cultural heritage is known as the "living fossil" of Chinese farming civilization.

In 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launched the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Protection Project.

As of now, there are 86 important agricultural cultural heritage items in the world, with China leading the list with 22 items.

In addition, China has announced 188 important agricultural cultural heritage items in seven batches.

　　"Agricultural cultural heritage provides valuable ideas, technologies and models for the current and future development of modern ecological agriculture." Liang Liuke said that China is an ancient agricultural country and a large agricultural country, but with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, the protection of its agricultural cultural heritage and inheritance are also subject to certain challenges.

　　He analyzed that at present, China's agricultural cultural heritage is unevenly distributed in the north and south, with obvious differences at the provincial level.

Provinces such as Zhejiang, Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan, Jiangsu and Jiangxi are widely distributed, while Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi, Henan and other provinces are sparsely distributed, and there is a lack of specialized protection institutions and capital investment. The development and utilization of agricultural cultural heritage has not yet formed a scientific development model. .

　　Taking Henan, a major agricultural province, as an example, he pointed out that Henan is one of the important birthplaces of agricultural civilization.

At the Peiligang site in Xinzheng, Henan, agricultural tools such as stone millstones and sickles from more than 8,000 years ago were discovered, as well as Monascus wine-making technology, which confirms the foundation of the farming culture of the Central Plains 8,000 years ago.

　　"Henan Province's total grain output has been stable at more than 130 billion kilograms for seven consecutive years, ranking first among China's grain-producing provinces." Liang Liuke said that the province does not have a globally important agricultural cultural heritage, which does not match its status as a major agricultural province.

　　"It is necessary to strengthen the excavation, sorting, protection and utilization of agricultural cultural heritage and rural intangible cultural heritage." As a National People's Congress representative from Xinyang Maojian tea production area, Guo Guiyi, a second-level professor at Xinyang Agriculture and Forestry College, took tea as an example and said that tea culture is the soul of the development of the tea industry. , however, the development of tea culture has been restricted by the lack of researchers and insufficient protection. There is an urgent need to carry out in-depth research, protection and inheritance of tea culture.

　　How to scientifically activate and awaken agricultural cultural heritage?

Many representatives gave suggestions based on cultural tourism, rural revitalization and beautiful rural construction.

　　Take terraced fields, the main land use type in hilly, mountainous and arid areas of China, as an example. Terraced fields embody the wisdom of the ancients and are representatives of excellent traditional farming culture.

The Hani Rice Terraces in Yunnan and the rice terrace system in southern China are both listed as globally important agricultural cultural heritage.

　　"Protecting terraces is not only to protect traditional culture, but also to protect the future of agriculture." Qian Qian, a representative of the National People's Congress and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has been paying attention to the protection of terraces, believes that protecting terraces is not to protect the past hard and low-income labor methods, but to use modern technology , industries and concepts, let terraces help rural revitalization.

　　Min Qingwen, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, suggested focusing on important agricultural cultural heritage sites to promote the pilot project of beautiful countryside construction. "The agricultural cultural heritage system contains the concept of ecological civilization of harmony between man and land, and environmentally friendly ecology," he said. Agricultural technology and ecological and cultural landscapes with reasonable structures have the resource basis for building beautiful countryside."

　　"The protection and utilization of agricultural cultural heritage must be based on community, ecological protection, agricultural resource advantages, promotion of farming culture, etc." Liang Liuke believes that scientific activation of agricultural cultural heritage must scientifically evaluate the tourism value of agricultural cultural heritage and combine the lives, production and ecology of local residents. environment, and build a high-value agricultural cultural heritage tourist space.

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