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Protecting cultural relics is everyone's responsibility

Cultural relics are priceless treasures left to us by our ancestors, which cannot be bought by money. After many years of wind and rain and war, the cultural relics handed down to this day are relatively few. And with the passage of time, fewer and fewer cultural relics will remain in the world. Therefore, cultural relics are very precious and we should also take care of them.

Cultural relics are specific material remains. Cultural relics have such two basic characteristics, one is created by human beings, or related to human activities; the second is to become the remains of history, it is impossible to re-create. According to the general international practice, cultural relics are material remains of historical, artistic and scientific value that were made one hundred years ago.

In ancient Chinese cultural relics, there are a large number of art treasures of skillful craftsmanship. Various traditional art forms, despite their descriptions in documentary records, are impossible for people to truly understand their historical features because of the lack of concrete images. Only cultural relics can vividly display the traditional art forms of different historical periods.

In the ancient Chinese cultural relics, there are a large number of ingenious art treasures. Various traditional art forms, despite the descriptions recorded in the literature, are impossible for people to truly understand their historical features because of the lack of concrete images. Only cultural relics can vividly display the traditional art forms of different historical periods.

Through the appreciation of cultural relics, one can not only savor the artistic value of the relics themselves, but also associate them with the cultural style and the spirit of the times of the historical period in which the relics' makers lived. Lu Xun has a "mirror feeling", wrote about his own appreciation of ancient mirrors, which "think of the Han people how many emasculated", "Han and Tang dynasties, although there is also a border problem, but the vigor is really great" and so on the understanding of, are reflected in a very thorough historical vision. From a cultural relic, he touched upon history, the style of the times, modernization and national character, and conducted a very profound cultural analysis. However, it is a misunderstanding for him to say that the "Seahorse Grape Mirror" is a "mirror of the Han Dynasty". Archaeologists now clearly know that these mirrors were made in the Tang Dynasty. "Seahorse Grape Mirror" is also known as "Sea Beast Grape Mirror", there are also "Avian Beast Grape Mirror", "Heavenly Horse Grape Mirror" and "Rui Beast Grape Mirror". and "Rui Beast Grape Mirror" and so on.

Each country and nation has its own cultural traditions, which in a certain sense can become the spiritual pillar of people's self-reliance and progress. Cultural relics embodies the different countries and peoples of the long-term formation of **** the same psychological tendencies, styles of consciousness, living customs and so on. Therefore, from a certain point of view can be said that cultural relics is a symbol of national culture. In addition, cultural relics are witnesses to the historical development of human society. In other words, cultural relics are not only the precious historical and cultural heritage of each country, but also the ****same cultural wealth of all mankind. The rapid development of modern industrialization, urbanization, man-made and natural destruction and damage to cultural relics of the factors increased significantly, heritage protection has become the world's countries faced with the **** the same problem. UNESCO launched a six-month international campaign for the protection of cultural relics and monuments in June 1964, requesting member states to enrich and improve technical and legal measures for the protection of cultural relics, and at the same time, requesting member states to strengthen the publicity for the protection of cultural relics and to make the values of cultural relics a household word. 1970, UNESCO adopted the Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. In November 1972, the 17th session of UNESCO adopted the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, and in November 1978, the 20th session adopted the Recommendation Concerning the Protection of Movable Cultural Property.

China originally had a tradition of protecting cultural relics. Qin Shi Huang once sent a thousand men to salvage a Zhou tripod that had sunk in Surabaya. When Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty got the unearthed bronze tripod, he changed the name of his year to "Yuanding". According to Song Shu? According to "Song Shu" (宋书) and "Wu Xing Zhi" (五行志), there were shoes worn by Confucius and a sword used by Emperor Han Gao Di (汉高帝) to behead the White Snake in the arsenal of Western Jin Dynasty. Lüshi Chunqiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lu Shi) wrote that grave-robbing should be "prohibited by severe and serious offenses". The Huainanzi (淮南子). said that the law at that time had the provision that "the person who sends out tombs will be executed". The laws of the Tang Dynasty included sanctions against grave-robbing, and Volume IX of the Tang Law Review contained clear provisions on the penalties to be imposed on those who "send out graves". The law of the Ming Dynasty also stipulated that, regardless of state-owned land or private land, all underground excavation of antiquities, the deadline for the state, or be punished.

Whether in modern times or in ancient times, cultural relics are very precious, we should protect the cultural relics, to protect the five thousand years of Chinese culture handed down!