The Function and Characteristics of Protecting Cultural Heritage

1, the role of protecting cultural heritage

(1) Cultural heritage is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors, which directly reflects this important process of human social development, has specific historical, social, scientific, technological, economic and aesthetic values, and is an indispensable material evidence for social development. Therefore, protecting cultural heritage means protecting the inheritance of human culture, cultivating the foundation of social culture, maintaining cultural diversity and creativity, and protecting the sustainable development of society.

(2) China's cultural heritage contains the unique spiritual value, mode of thinking and imagination of the Chinese nation, and embodies the vitality and creativity of the Chinese nation. It is the crystallization of national wisdom, the treasure of all human civilizations, the premise of protecting cultural heritage and preserving national cultural inheritance, and the premise of connecting national emotional ties, enhancing national unity, maintaining world cultural diversity and creativity, and promoting common development of mankind.

(3) Strengthening the protection of cultural heritage is an inevitable requirement for building advanced socialist culture, implementing Scientific Outlook on Development and building a harmonious socialist society. Generally speaking, cultural heritage, as the historical legacy of human nature and social activities, reveals this certain historical phenomenon from different aspects and fields, reflecting the ideological and moral and scientific level of ancient people. Their value and function are eternal, and it is of great significance to protect cultural heritage.

(4) Protecting cultural heritage can help people of all ethnic groups absorb the nutrients of national spirit extensively; Cultural relics play an irreplaceable role in patriotism and revolutionary tradition education; Protecting cultural heritage is the historical basis for protecting the ideological and moral, scientific and cultural quality of people of all ethnic groups; Cultural heritage plays an important role in foreign exchange and protection of tourism development.

2. Characteristics of cultural heritage

(1) must represent a unique artistic achievement and a creative masterpiece of genius.

(2) Heritage projects in a certain period or a specific cultural area in the world reflect such an art of architectural art or such a commemorative building, including urban planning and landscape design, and reflect such a change in human concepts.

(3) This heritage project that people face can become a fading civilization or cultural tradition, which can provide such a witness.

(4) It can be regarded as an important stage in human history, and its typical and representative buildings can reflect this era and are outstanding examples of architecture or landscape in this era.

(5) The legacy it faces can serve as an outstanding example of the traditional human habitation, how to use the land and how to live. In particular, it may reflect one or several cultures. This culture has become very vulnerable to destruction in the course of human historical development.