What is the significance of protecting endangered cultural heritage

For a long time, the protection of cultural heritage was neglected by everyone. Over the years, China's cultural ecology has undergone great changes. In the process of economic development, many cultural heritages and a large number of ancient buildings have disappeared with or without people's intention. Due to their non-renewability, many material heritages carrying great historical and cultural values have just left us forever. After the 1950s, many cities across the country started new construction, which resulted in the destruction of historical cities due to the lack of awareness of the value and role of historical and cultural heritage. After the 1980s, a new construction climax, many large and medium-sized cities in the old city of large-scale construction activities, so that many of the traditional historical regions were "disaster", many of the old city in the "old look" at the same time, the loss of the original character The original characteristics of many old cities have been lost at the same time as the "old look is new". The concept of contempt, insufficient financial support and the imperfection of the system of norms and regulations, more difficult to protect cultural heritage.

The confusion of traditional culture with backward culture and old culture has directly led to the ineffective protection of historical and cultural heritage. In the view of some people, to update, we need to break the "old" and "new", we need to "cut the Gordian knot", "let go and do it! ". One-sided pursuit of economic construction, neglecting cultural construction and historical and cultural preservation, so that more skyscrapers and tourism development swallowed a lot of historical buildings, destroyed a lot of historical city style. This not only makes the cultural heritage and the original local flavor, the city style is swept away, cut off the historical veins of society, and, in the long run will bring the weakening of a national culture.

The roots of a national culture, the inheritance of a spiritual civilization, need carriers. Long-standing culture is carried in the millennium cultural heritage, such as customs, habits, traditional performing arts, ancient ruins, ancient buildings, and so on. Taking architecture as an example, modern buildings are made of reinforced concrete, which is less resistant to earthquakes, while ancient Chinese buildings were mostly made of wood, which was constructed in a way that made it more resistant to earthquakes. Behind this architectural style lies the traditional Chinese cultural concept of "softness overcomes strength". For example, the Old Town of Lijiang was recognized as a World Heritage Site after it survived a magnitude 7 earthquake. For example, the old houses and neighborhoods of Huoshan Road in Hongkou District, Shanghai, the 12th Historic District of Shanghai, are a testimony to the friendship between the Chinese and Jewish people. If this place is protected, people all over the world will gradually know that when the German fascists brutally massacred the Jews, and when many countries refused to accept the Jewish refugees who fled in all directions, the Chinese people, who also suffered from the ravages of the Japanese imperialists, amicably accepted more than 30,000 Jews. On the contrary, if the carriers carrying historical information die out, the history and culture loaded on them will inevitably be diluted or extinguished.

The significance of preserving cultural heritage is also about the future. To understand cultural heritage, we should understand the profound historical and cultural meanings behind the heritage, and more importantly, we should cultivate a new modern culture on the basis of tradition. This "new" culture, sprouting from historical and cultural traditions, will have more roots, heritage, characteristics and vitality. Social civilization needs a new metabolism, but the renewal should not reject history, but rather develop on the basis of history, from the old environment to breed new things.

Protection and development are a pair of difficult contradictions, but not a pair of unresolvable contradictions. Inheritance and development, historical traditions and modernization requirements are all people's needs. Wealth is supposed to include cultural wealth. Cultural heritage protection work in-depth, the key is to let all sectors of society better appreciate and recognize its value, the value of history and culture also contains a huge wealth

These are with reference to the " ghm2651 " the answer to this netizen, the following link to the original text

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Since it is to answer your question, surely to say their own views, I think these are just some of the crown of the set of words, I think there are two ways to answer your question, one is to negate your proposition, completely meaningless, another view of the protection of endangered cultural heritage is now a kind of show, there is a certain significance, anyway, are not very meaningful.

Why say to negate your proposition, completely meaningless to protect the endangered heritage, the first point, just as the extinction of the dinosaurs, this is a law of nature, natural selection, who can not escape such a fate, since it is eliminated things, protect her also useless, the reasoning of the wall of mud can not be helped, everyone understands the (my following statements are only applicable to our country, please understand my intention), the purpose of protecting the cultural heritage. The second point, the purpose of protecting cultural heritage, in order to go to the sun, to develop, to make money, this is more meaningless, we have a lot of ways to make money, you can do a lot of English tutoring classes, GRE, TOEFL, IELTS, in order to those deep ditches in a few clay statues of unnecessary, in addition to the abolition of the Chinese language can also be recommended, directly with the international unity, the whole Westernized, Chinese characters are the last spiritual pillar of the Chinese people, is as the last and only credentials of the Chinese people. Chinese characters are the last spiritual pillar of the Chinese people, as the last and only credentials of the Chinese people, so those stubborn old-fashioned elements, must be unconditionally obeyed, shall not interfere with the socialist construction of the plan, not to mention not to obstruct the footsteps of China's "convergence" with the world, I'm sorry, here should be used to "convergence". The third point, which belongs to the cultural heritage, which need to be protected, which are endangered can not care, which are endangered can pretend to pull a hand, which are endangered still need to make up for a foot behind, these distinctions is very time-consuming, so simply to a pot end, fall a clean. Let's say that burial is backward, here is a big joke, how much culture of burial, ask how many people still know, and then actively eliminate burial, no wonder which ancient emperors' graves were dug up, the original is that they used the backward way of burial, cumbersome etiquette, take up the land, superstitious ideas, and how sad which emperors! In fact, I would like to ask a lot of friends, how much of our history is dug up from the earth, why today's burial is a stereotype? Anyway, I don't understand (I personally don't prefer earth burial or cremation, etc. of any kind), and I don't think any of my friends will be able to convince me of that

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