The protection and improvement of Wan'an Old Town

In 1989, Anhui Provincial People's Government announced the Wan'an Ancient Town as a provincial-level historical and cultural protection zone, Huangshan City and Xiuning County attached great importance to the protection of the efforts to increase the traditional appearance of Wan'an Old Street has not been damaged, the surrounding environment has been protected and remediation.

1, the preparation of the town protection plan

2000, by the Tsinghua University School of Architecture Professor Zhu Zixuan as a special adviser, Huangshan City Planning and Design Institute, Xiuning County Construction Bureau and the people's government of the town of Wan'an jointly prepared the "Xiuning County, Wan'an Ancient Town Protection Plan", and by the Anhui Provincial Department of Construction organized by the expert review. Protection planning clearly put forward the comprehensive protection of cultural relics and monuments, restore the vitality of local business, maintain the personality characteristics of the ancient town. Through the protection of the ancient town style, rectify the historical environment, improve living conditions, the development of tourism, to promote the protection and development of a virtuous cycle, so that the town's historical and cultural heritage for a long time to pass on.

2, rectification and development of the ancient city rock

The introduction of funds, rectification of the environment of the ancient city rock, the development of the ancient city rock tourist attractions, will be scattered in the countryside within the area of the Xiuning County, is not easy to protect and on the verge of extinction of the ancient pagodas, ancient pavilions, ancient dwellings, ancient theater, etc. concentrated in the ancient city rock, the implementation of the "protection of the other side of the" way, not only protect the cultural heritage, but also increase tourism. Cultural relics and monuments, but also increase the content of tourism.

3, the protection of the old streets of Wan'an

Based on the protection plan, the comprehensive protection of the old streets of Wan'an, the old streets are prohibited from demolition, reconstruction. Since 2000, the style of the old street has been effectively protected, and there are no new buildings that are not in harmony with the traditional style. Demolition of the new district of Wan'an and the old street connected with the entrance to the disorganized buildings, built on the side of the highway with the traditional Huizhou architectural style of the houses, as a guiding building into the old street.

4, the construction of the "School Square" and "Feng Shui Cultural Park"

In the north side of the highway, is a century-old school "Xiuning Middle School". In the Xiuning Middle School, had come out of one of the leaders of China's ****production party Ke Qingshi, the famous linguist Hu Yushu, etc. In 2003-2004, successively in the Xiuning Middle School was built outside the main door of the "Academy Square", next to the "Academy Square". To the east of the construction of "Feng Shui Culture Park". "Feng Shui Cultural Park" a project has been completed, the layout according to the traditional Huizhou village "water mouth" design, in the garden, seven stone compass layers, the top of a large bronze sundial placed in the middle of the town of Wan'an new landmark building.

5, declare the national "intangible cultural heritage"

According to the state to carry out the "intangible cultural heritage" to protect the project declaration, Xiuning County in the unified deployment of the city of Huangshan, and actively organize and carry out the declaration. Xiuning County has set up a "Wanan compass craft declaration leading group" and "Wanan compass protection and development leading group". Determine the special person to collect historical and current information, prepare the declaration text, and invited the city's famous Hui research experts as a consultant, several drafts, illustrated with audio and visual information. The declared materials have been praised by the authorities at all levels, and successfully included in the first batch of national "intangible cultural heritage" list.