The purpose and significance of the protection of ancient villages

One, give full play to the role of tourism development in the protection of ancient villages, is an important way to make the ancient villages alive

In the protection of ancient villages, many domestic cultural scholars have put forward a lot of insight, but also how to protect the opening out of a lot of insightful "prescription". However, I think, in the protection of ancient villages, tourism development is still indispensable to play an important role.

As many cultural scholars wrote in the article: into the ancient village, a classical mood of the beauty comes, hundreds of simple ancient buildings, staggered next to each other, roof carvings warped probe, the streets north and south, the alleys across the street, paved with cobblestones on the pavement after hundreds of years of footprints polished, become extraordinarily mellow. But this "national cultural relics protection units," the honor of the title, still can not stop the slow decline of the ancient village. Indeed, in many of the units listed as "national cultural relics protection units", a large number of ancient buildings and cultural heritage or dilapidated or man-made destruction. As described by experts: the carved window panes are missing, the roof beams are missing, the "door-to-door" is missing, the stone drums of the ancestral halls are missing, and the precious wood is missing. ...... This is a status quo of the ancient villages, this is the same fate of most ancient villages.

Undoubtedly, as a "national cultural relics protection unit", because of this title, making it possible to avoid or slow down the destruction. It should be said that the cultural sector to set up "cultural protection units", so that these cultural heritage has a "talisman". This is also the most important way and the main means to protect cultural heritage. Without such a "talisman", I do not know how many other cultural heritage would have suffered from extinction. Unlike "national cultural protection units", the fate of ancient villages is not so lucky. First, because the protection of ancient villages started relatively late, the second is the protection of ancient villages has not been included in the legal level, third, because the scope of protection of ancient villages is much larger than the "national cultural heritage protection units", the protection of the strength of the difficulty is also much larger. Therefore, as described by the experts: into the ancient village, only to see firewood piled arbitrarily around, messy exposed old wires like cobwebs, wooden columns askew, tiles broken, poultry and livestock in disorder, pungent smell around. In a word, the protection of ancient villages is difficult! Difficult! difficult!

However, we are also pleased to see that many ancient villages are not listed as "cultural relics protection unit" before the tourism early intervention, so that it can be effectively protected, so as to avoid similar situations mentioned above. Can we say another way, is the tourism sector first discovered the value of ancient villages, and development, so that the protection of ancient villages caused by the world's growing attention. Perhaps this statement will cause many people to question, but can we go back to the beginning of history to look at this issue, perhaps there will be no controversy. Let's take the two ancient villages of Peitian and Zhixi in Liancheng County as an example. Peitian was first listed as a tourist development site in Liancheng County, and nowadays when we walk into Peitian's ancient villages, we can only see the vicissitudes of the ancient dwellings without being corrupted, simple and uncluttered, and the neat courtyards with the scent of birds and flowers. Paved thousand-year-old street, stores on both sides of the year not lost the prosperity of the year. Ancient theater, from time to time, the unique Han opera Xipi Erhuang Zhongzhou rhyme. The Nanshan Academy at the end of the village, still read aloud. In Zhixi, although as early as the 1990s was listed as a provincial historical and cultural villages, recently listed as a national historical and cultural villages. However, Zhixi has not formed any tourism development projects, and now the conservation of Zhixi is in the same condition as other places. Some experts once thought that ZhiXi was far better than Peitian in terms of architecture and cultural connotation, but now ZhiXi not only suffers serious damage to its architecture, but also to the appearance of its ancient villages, which makes it difficult to find historical relics in ZhiXi, and even its hygiene is unacceptable to the public. The reasons for this situation in Zhixi are many and varied, but is it related to the lack of tourism development in the early days? From the present situation, although we dare not say that it is the main reason, we can at least say that it is an important reason, the main reason. Because as a historical and cultural village, these years in the protection process, first, the lack of effective legal effect, the lack of planning authority. The second is the lack of funding for conservation and the lack of conservation professionals. Thirdly, the protection is in serious conflict with the construction of new rural areas and the improvement of the living conditions of the masses. In other words, who should protect? How to protect? Has been the biggest problem confusing the protection of ancient villages. On the one hand, the masses want to improve the living conditions, on the other hand, the protection of the serious shortage of funds. On the one hand, the masses see the value of development, and spontaneously engage in tourism development such as Nongjiaole. On the one hand, there is a lack of planning, resulting in uncontrolled development. Worse still, many historical and cultural villages have just been assessed, due to cultural relics protection and management work can not keep up with the result that overnight, a large number of historical relics of ancient villages suddenly disappeared without a trace. This also appears at the beginning of a number of cultural scholars see the kind of sad picture. We do not now how this consequence is caused, but we can at least think so, if tourism can be involved in the development of earlier, perhaps not such a tragic situation. Perhaps there are many people will come up with the year "wash three holes" and phoenix ancient city contracting fiasco to say things, indeed, in tourism development has been an unacceptable reality, that very rude, regardless of heritage protection laws and regulations, do not understand the value of heritage conservation practices, so that tourism from now on to carry a permanent shame, but also let the tourism to pay a heavy price. The price. But we can not therefore deny the role of tourism development on the protection of ancient villages, not to mention the exclusion of tourism development in the ranks of protection.

We recognize the status and role of tourism development on the protection of ancient villages, but also to see the role of tourism development in the ancient villages "alive". In the current situation, if only according to the conservation requirements of the cultural relics department, then to make the ancient villages "live up" or a great deal of difficulty. From the institutional point of view, cultural and heritage departments, they only undertake the protection of ancient villages, but not the development work. Further, culture and heritage departments in the protection of more is to protect the body of the building, the protection of "living culture" is only in a planning, more by the local people themselves. As a result, there is a "cultural empty nest". Therefore, when we say that we have to affirm the role of tourism in the development and protection of ancient villages, should be eliminated once the misunderstanding, should be institutionalized to solve the cultural and tourism sectors in the protection and development of ancient villages has always existed in the "two skins" of the problem, to play their respective roles in the protection and development. For example, for the cultural relics department, to give full play to the effectiveness of the law, the establishment of regular protection institutions and the formation of protection team. At the same time, we should do a good job of census and protection planning, and establish a protection file. For the tourism sector, rational development, orderly development and scientific development should be carried out within the scope of the law. In the development of the maximum benefit from the protection of the purpose, from the maximum conducive to the promotion of sustainable development of ancient villages, to achieve a win-win situation for the protection and development.