"Let culture speak", let history speak, natural history leads to knowledge | "Let cultural relics speak

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Our country’s historical and cultural heritage carries the genes and blood of the Chinese nation. As the main body of protection, display and promotion of historical and cultural heritage, museums connect the past, present and future of the country.

During this year’s National Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that museum construction must be more complete and systematic, while giving full play to the educational function of museums. He particularly emphasized the need to do a good job in the museum business.

Over the years, how to keep the Chinese cultural heritage alive on the basis of protecting historical and cultural heritage has always been the direction that General Secretary Xi Jinping has been thinking about and continues to pay attention to and promote.

In February 2014, the General Secretary came to the Capital Museum to visit and understand the historical picture of Beijing displayed by more than 670 cultural relic components. In the exhibition areas such as "Yan Ji Charm" and "International City", he carefully looked at each object and picture, and exchanged discussions with experts from time to time.

The General Secretary emphasized that the purpose of organizing historical museum exhibitions is to witness history, draw lessons from history, and enlighten future generations. While exhibiting, we must attach great importance to the revision of history and chronicles, let cultural relics speak for themselves, tell people historical wisdom, and inspire our national pride and self-confidence.

The picture shows a Persian pottery pot from the late Eastern Han Dynasty collected in the Han Dynasty Culture Museum in Hepu County, Guangxi.

In April 2017, during an inspection at the Han Dynasty Culture Museum in Hepu County, Guangxi, the General Secretary walked into the exhibition halls such as the Light of Bronze, the Rhythm of Earth and Fire, and the Blue Sea Silk Road, inspected ancient Chinese and foreign cultural relics unearthed from the Han Tombs in Hepu, and learned about the Beibu Gulf of the Han Dynasty. The history of regional foreign trade and exchanges.

Here, the General Secretary emphasized that museum construction should pay attention to characteristics. The road to the sea is an important way for a country to develop. The cultural relics displayed here around the ancient Maritime Silk Road are all history and culture. Let cultural relics speak, let history speak, and let culture speak.

In July 2022, in a reply to senior experts from the National Museum of China, the General Secretary encouraged cultural and museum workers to strengthen historical research and inheritance. He stressed the need to "strengthen cultural confidence, deepen academic research, innovate exhibitions and displays, and promote the revitalization and utilization of cultural relics."

On the basis of protecting and inheriting historical and cultural heritage, the value of the times contained in it can better play a role, go to the people, and integrate into national construction and development. This is the meaning of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s earnest instructions. .

As early as the 2014 Forum on Literature and Art Work, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the method and path of “let cultural relics speak, let history speak, and let culture speak.” He put forward a series of ideas such as serving the past for the present, using foreign materials for China, dialectical choices, and innovating the old, emphasizing that "we should use the rules of the ancients to create our own lives" to achieve the creative transformation and innovative development of Chinese culture.

In recent years, museums across my country have continuously innovated scientific and technological means on the basis of strengthening the protection and utilization of cultural relics and the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage, giving new life and vitality to many collections of treasures, classics, historical relics, etc.

Mawangdui Restoration Dynamic Exhibition "One Thought·Xin Chasing Dreams" uses multimedia visual images to provide the audience with an immersive audio-visual experience.

The Mawangdui Restoration Dynamic Exhibition "One Thought·Xin Chai Dream" has aroused enthusiastic response since its trial operation at the Hunan Provincial Museum in early 2022. This dynamic exhibition uses three-dimensional modeling to restore historical cultural relics. Through unique stage design and artistic performances, it vividly reproduces the story of Xin Zhui, the wife of Bianhou, the prime minister of Changsha in the early Western Han Dynasty, who upheld her husband's ambition, taught her children to become talents, and protected her family and country.

When the silent historical and cultural heritage "comes alive" in the lively, vivid and moving scenes, people will have a deeper understanding of the greatness and essence of Chinese civilization and traditional culture.

After watching "Yi Nian·Xin Zhui Meng", some Changsha citizens lamented: "No matter what era, patriotism and love for family are the most precious qualities." Some viewers said: "After watching it live, I wrote my impressions on the spot. I am afraid that I will forget it when I go back. The shock of this moment.”

"Let the cultural relics collected in museums, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books come alive. The general secretary used the word "living" to express the direction and goal of continuously carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture.

Looking around the country, the immersive experience of "technological cultural relics" in museums has won continuous applause, and artistic creations such as stage plays have been booming one after another; cultural tourism and cultural creative products have frequently "out of the circle"... "Let cultural relics speak, let history speak, and let culture speak." New forms and new explorations are constantly emerging.

With the support of new technology, Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes has achieved a new experience of looking at the cultural relics inside and outside the cave.

In the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, tourists can pick up their mobile phones and open the AR map to see nine-colored deer "flying down" from the murals; on the Spring Festival Gala stage, the dance poetry drama "Only Green" perfectly activated the ancient scroll "Thousands of Miles" The emotional connection between "The Picture of Rivers and Mountains" and modern characters reproduces the splendid mountains and rivers of the motherland; in the Palace Museum, cultural and creative products such as stationery, daily necessities, clothing, bags, etc., carry the culture of the Palace Museum from the museum to thousands of households...

"Tell people the wisdom of history", "let cultural relics speak, let history speak, let culture speak", "make good use of archaeological and historical research results" and "enhance the ambition, backbone and confidence to be Chinese"...Implement the important tasks of the General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that my country's cultural and museum undertakings will "open up their own lives based on the rules of the ancients", gain cultural confidence in the understanding of Chinese civilization, and make greater contributions to continuing the historical context of the Chinese nation and building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Proofreading丨Liu Zhen, Sun Jie, Song Chunyan, Mao Changzhi, Liang Yaqin