Zhuxi, Hubei: Innovatively Protecting the Millennium Heritage of the Chu Great Wall, Revitalizing Culture | The Great Wall | Heritage
On the afternoon of August 16th, a symposium on the protection and utilization of the Chu Great Wall culture was held in Zhuxi County, Hubei Province. Experts and scholars from all over the country gathered together to devote themselves to the protection and utilization of the historical and cultural resources of the Chu Great Wall, create a cultural business card of the Great Wall, and promote the integration of culture and tourism development.
The Chu Great Wall in Zhuxi is located in Guanya, at the junction of present-day Hubei and Shaanxi provinces. It is a cultural heritage shared by both provinces and has a history of over 2700 years. The Guanya Site is one of the important relics of the Chu Great Wall and an important strategic fortification used by the Chu State to resist the Qin State. It spans the border between Hubei, Chongqing, and Shaanxi, and there are still four sites within the Zhuxi area.
The Guanya Site is in the shape of a boat, located horizontally in the center of the mountain, with its head and tail sloping upwards along both sides of the mountain. It is about 300 meters long from north to south and about 50 meters wide from east to west, surrounded by thick rammed earth city walls. A building is built in the center of the "boat cabin", and mountain fortresses and drum platforms are built on both sides of Guanya.
Guanya Site. Photo by Zhang Qianlong
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It is reported that in recent years, Zhuxi has done a lot of work on the investigation of the resources of the Great Wall, and has drawn the "Guanya Qin Chu Great Wall Restoration Map" and "Zhuxi Qin Chu Great Wall Site Map", which have clarified the scope of the Chu Great Wall site and laid the foundation for the protection of the Chu Great Wall. At the same time, protection and repair work was carried out to repair and reinforce the safety hazards and collapsed walls of the Guanya site, effectively protecting the cultural relics.
At the same time, a large-scale situational drama "Looking for Peace: The Great Wall of Chu" was created locally, and a series of regional cultural books such as "Guanya" and "Zhuxi Dictionary" were compiled and printed. It is also necessary to clarify the responsibilities of territorial management, assign specialized personnel as Great Wall protectors, and increase the intensity of inspections.
Yu Quanyuan, Director of the Cultural and Tourism Bureau of Zhuxi County, stated that in the next step, Zhuxi County will take this symposium as a new starting point, adhere to the principle of developing while protecting and protecting during development, fully tap and utilize the cultural resources of the Chu Great Wall, create exquisite cultural works of the Chu Great Wall, develop the tourism and performance industry of the Chu Great Wall, and make every effort to create a famous historical and cultural scenic spot of the Chu Great Wall.
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