Let cultural heritage bloom with new rhythms of the times | including | the Grand Canal
Starting from July 2023, ships loaded with cargo will no longer have to pass through the ancient canal waterway in Hangzhou. The newly opened second channel of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Hangzhou will allow the numerous manufacturing companies, foreign trade companies and logistics industrial parks along the canal banks to reach the sea more smoothly, and also relieve the ancient canal of its heavy burden and better protect it. In the ten years since the successful application of the Grand Canal for World Heritage, just as the "new canal" and the "old canal" complement each other, the spirit of the times and the culture of the Grand Canal have mutually stimulated each other, and the millennium cultural context has been continued, leaping with new spirit.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "Cultural relics and cultural heritage carry the genes and bloodline of the Chinese nation and are non-renewable and irreplaceable resources of China's excellent civilization." In order to allow cultural heritage including the Grand Canal to bloom with new rhythm of the times and radiate vitality, we need to continue to increase protection efforts and do a good job in protection, inheritance and utilization.
For cultural heritage, protection is the first priority. The Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang have stood for thousands of years, shining like a pearl in the long river of world civilization. What many people may not know is that the Mogao Grottoes, located deep in the vast Gobi Desert, also need flood early warning monitoring. The Dunhuang Academy has carried out automated monitoring work in the Mogao Grottoes. Through the environmental monitoring system, various data indicators are clearly visible, from subtle diseases of murals and statues and changes in temperature and humidity in the caves to natural disasters such as wind, sand, and floods, providing important help for the protection work of "prescribing the right medicine for the right disease". Only by adhering to protection first, strengthening system protection, and continuously improving the scientific and technological innovation capabilities and application levels of cultural heritage protection can we effectively maintain the authenticity, integrity, and continuity of historical and cultural heritage.
To better inherit historical and cultural heritage, we must insist on letting cultural relics, history and culture speak. As the museum with the most visitors in the world, the Forbidden City is an indispensable window to understand Chinese history and culture. On May 1, 2024, the first musical children's play "Lu Duan" of the Palace Museum premiered in Hong Kong. Using new technologies such as augmented reality and immersive stage design, the cultural relics in the display cabinets were put on the stage, which aroused cheers from the audience. From launching the "Seasons of the Forbidden City" video course, allowing children to know the seasons and understand the past and present in the process of doing handicrafts with teachers in the cloud classroom, to the "Forbidden City Calendar" integrating virtual reality to bring the "paper museum" closer to the audience, we can explore the multiple values of historical and cultural heritage and better present the Chinese history and culture behind them, so that more and more people, especially young people, can recognize and identify with the charm and value of cultural heritage, so that our treasures can be entrusted to people and passed down from generation to generation.
Hualougou Village, Bakshiying Town, Luanping County, Hebei Province, has become a well-known "photography village" with the help of the "golden business card" of the Jinshanling Great Wall. In the past, a large number of villagers went out to work. With the increase in photography enthusiasts and self-driving tourists, everyone returned to the village to start a business. At present, the village has developed more than 100 homestays, which can receive more than 100,000 domestic and foreign tourists each year, and has driven more than 700 villagers to employment. Protecting and utilizing the cultural heritage of the Great Wall has enabled more and more villages at the foot of the Great Wall to eat tourism meals and rush to the road to wealth, and has also allowed cultural heritage to enter people's lives in a more vivid way. It can be seen that protecting and inheriting is not to put cultural heritage on the shelf, but to promote the protection and utilization to complement each other, so that cultural heritage can be carried forward in the continuation of inheritance and play a greater role in economic and social development and the improvement of people's lives.
The Grand Canal connects the north and the south, linking the past and the present for thousands of years. Precious historical and cultural heritage, including the Grand Canal, is like a pearl in the thousands of years of Chinese civilization. Protecting, inheriting and making good use of historical and cultural heritage, so that the ancient cultural heritage can present a more dazzling brilliance in the new era, will surely stimulate the vitality of cultural innovation and creativity, and inject deep and lasting cultural power into promoting Chinese-style modernization.
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