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Why are historical relics valuable?

Cultural relics are the crystallization of our ancestors' labor, wisdom and revolutionary spirit, and have important historical, artistic and scientific values.

First, cultural relics are convincing physical teaching materials for educating people in patriotism, revolutionary tradition and historical materialism.

Through cultural relics, people can deeply understand history, understand the status of the motherland in world history, and understand the glorious deeds of countless ancestors who bravely resisted foreign invasion and overthrew the old system. Second, cultural relics are the witness of the historical development of the motherland and the most right-leaning historical materials, which can supplement historical records.

The history of China before Shang Dynasty was completely confirmed and restored by the cultural relics unearthed underground. Third, cultural relics are the symbols of our ancient civilization and the most important tourist resources in China; Fourth, cultural relics can faithfully record the geographical changes, hydrology and earthquakes in history, provide rich nutrition for today's cultural and artistic creation, provide indispensable reference for the development of modern science and technology, and play a unique and important role in the realistic international political struggle.

In a word, cultural relics play an extremely important role in the construction of our socialist material civilization and spiritual civilization.