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The value of cultural heritage

Cultural heritage is conceptually divided into tangible cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. For the value of cultural heritage, there are mainly the following aspects:

1, which has important historical value.

Culture carries history and has specific historical conditions and characteristics of the times. Through cultural inheritance, understanding the social development level, lifestyle and moral customs in the past historical period can make up for the lack of official books and help people understand the previous history and culture more comprehensively.

2. It has important cultural value.

Cultural heritage is the crystallization of the wisdom of different nationalities and groups, contains the essence of culture, reflects the way of thinking and cultural characteristics of the nation, embodies the development track of the nation, and is the best embodiment of the national cultural value.

3. It has important scientific value.

Cultural heritage has important scientific value, which is the best embodiment of social productive forces and scientific and technological development in different historical development periods, and provides a guarantee for future generations to obtain relevant information and scientific methods of scientific development.

4. It has important spiritual value.

Cultural heritage contains national cultural genes and spiritual products, and it is an important element to maintain national blood, shape national image and continue the basically consistent social behavior and attitude towards life of the nation. It is the best embodiment of national vitality, the support of national spirit and the source of stable, healthy and sustainable development of national culture.

5. It has important economic value.

Rational use of cultural heritage, transforming it into economic resources, developing its economic value, bringing economic benefits to society and promoting cultural and economic development.

6. It has important educational value.

Cultural heritage contains many unique skills and skills, and the process of imparting these valuable skills to students is the process of realizing educational value.

7. It has important aesthetic and artistic value.

Cultural heritage includes performing arts, various handicrafts and so on, all of which have extremely high artistic and aesthetic values. It provides us with an important carrier of artistic research and aesthetic research.