Significance of Historical and Cultural Heritage

1. What is the significance of the protection of the cultural heritage of mankind

The establishment of the "Day of Remembrance" is undoubtedly an important cultural symbol to promote a cause and carry forward a great spirit.

The State Council recently issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Protection of Cultural Heritage", deciding that from 2006 onwards, the second Saturday of June every year for China's "Cultural Heritage Day". This means that the protection of cultural heritage has begun to enter the field of vision of *** and social attention.

However, for a long time, the protection of cultural heritage has been neglected. Over the years, China's cultural ecology has changed dramatically.

In the process of economic development, a lot of cultural heritage, a large number of ancient buildings, disappeared with or without people's will. Due to the non-renewability, many of the material heritage carrying great historical and cultural value, just left us forever.

After the 1950s, many cities across the country began new construction, due to the lack of awareness of the value and role of historical and cultural heritage, resulting in the destruction of historical cities. After the 1980s, set off a new construction ***, many large and medium-sized cities in the old city of large-scale construction activities, so that many of the traditional historical areas were "disaster", many of the old city in the "old look" at the same time, the loss of the original The old city has lost its original character and appearance.

And the concept of belittling, insufficient financial support and the imperfection of the system of norms and regulations, more difficult to make the protection of cultural heritage.

In the view of some people, to update, we need to break the "old" and "new", we need to "cut the Gordian knot", "let go of the dry feet! ". And one-sided pursuit of economic construction, neglecting cultural construction and historical and cultural protection, so that more skyscrapers and tourism development swallowed a lot of historical buildings, destroyed a lot of historical city style.

This not only makes the cultural heritage and the original local flavor, the city style is swept away, cut off the historical veins of society, and, in the long run, more will bring a national culture of weakness. The roots of a national culture, the inheritance of a spiritual civilization, need carriers.

A long-lasting culture is carried on a thousand years of cultural heritage, such as customs, habits, traditional performing arts, ancient ruins, ancient buildings and so on. Taking architecture as an example, modern buildings are made of reinforced concrete, which is less earthquake-resistant, while ancient Chinese buildings were mostly made of wood, which was constructed in a way that made it more earthquake-resistant.

Behind this architectural style lies the traditional Chinese cultural concept of "softness over strength". For example, the ancient city of Lijiang was recognized as a World Heritage Site after it survived a magnitude 7 earthquake.

For example, the old houses and neighborhoods of Huoshan Road in Hongkou District, Shanghai, the 12th Historic District of Shanghai, are a testament to the friendship between the Chinese people and the Jewish people. This place is protected, and gradually people all over the world will know that when the German fascists brutally massacred the Jews, and when many countries refused to accept the Jewish refugees who fled in all directions, the Chinese people, who also suffered from the ravages of Japanese imperialism, kindly accepted more than 30,000 Jews.

On the contrary, if the carriers of historical information die out, the history and culture loaded on them are bound to be diluted or extinguished. The significance of preserving cultural heritage is also about the future.

Understanding cultural heritage means understanding the deep historical and cultural meanings behind it, and nurturing a new modern culture based on tradition. This "new" culture, sprouting from historical and cultural traditions, is more rooted, embedded, distinctive, and vital.

Social civilization needs a new metabolism, but the renewal can not reject the history, but on the basis of the history of the development, from the old environment to breed new things. Protection and development is a pair of difficult contradictions, but not a pair of insoluble contradictions.

Inheritance and development, historical traditions and modernization requirements are people's needs. Wealth rightly includes cultural wealth.

The key to the deepening of the protection of cultural heritage is to let all sectors of society better appreciate and recognize its value, and the value of history and culture also contains great wealth.

2. The significance of the protection of cultural heritage in China

The significance of the protection of cultural heritage 1. Cultural heritage is the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancestors, which intuitively reflects this important process of the development of human society, specific historical, social, scientific and technological, economic and aesthetic value, is an indispensable physical evidence of social development.

Therefore, the protection of cultural heritage is to protect the inheritance of human culture, cultivate the roots of social culture, maintain cultural diversity and creativity, and protect the continuous development of society. 2. China's cultural heritage contains the unique spiritual values of the Chinese nation, way of thinking, imagination, reflecting the vitality and creativity of the Chinese nation, is the crystallization of the wisdom of the individual nation, but also the treasures of the civilization of all mankind. Protecting cultural heritage and maintaining the heritage of national culture is a prerequisite for connecting national emotional ties, enhancing national unity and maintaining the world's cultural diversity and creativity, and promoting the development of mankind*** together.

3. Strengthening the protection of cultural heritage is an inevitable requirement for building an advanced socialist culture, implementing the scientific concept of development and building a harmonious socialist society. In general, the cultural heritage, as the historical remains of mankind's natural and social activities, regardless of whether they are initially spiritual or material, advanced or reactionary, from different sides and fields to reveal this certain historical phenomenon, reflecting the ancient people's ideology and morality and the level of science, their value and role is eternal, and the protection of cultural heritage is of great significance. 4. Protection of cultural heritage can help people of all ethnic groups to draw on a wide range of national spiritual sustenance; patriotism and revolutionary tradition of education, cultural relics have an irreplaceable role; the protection of cultural heritage is to protect the people of all ethnic groups of ideological and moral and scientific and cultural qualities of the historical roots; cultural heritage in the foreign exchanges, the protection of the tourism industry to play an important role in the development.

Expanded:

China's cultural heritage is a program initiated by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China*** and the State for the protection of valuable historical artifacts, historical sites, and forms of art preserved in China. It includes the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site, Dujiangyan in Sichuan, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Shaanxi, Mount Taishan in Shandong, and the Forbidden City in Beijing.

As of July 2017, China has 52 World Cultural, Landscape and Natural Heritage sites on the World Heritage List, including 31 World Cultural Heritage sites, 5 World Cultural Landscape Heritage sites, 4 World Dual Cultural and Natural Heritage sites, and 12 World Natural Heritage sites. History of Cultural Heritage In 1985, Hou Renzhi, a member of the Chinese National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), drafted and submitted to the Third Session of the Sixth Session of the CPPCC, together with Yang Hanxi, Zheng Xiaoxie and Luo Zhewen, a report entitled "China should participate in the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as early as possible, and should actively seek to take part in the World Heritage Committee", so as to benefit China.

Thus began the process of China's accession to the protection of world heritage. on November 22, 1985, China joined the ranks of the States Parties to the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

In 1987, China formally acceded to the Convention and began the process of nominating World Heritage Sites, with the first six World Heritage Sites being successfully nominated in the same year. As of 2012, there are 43 World Heritage properties*** (including 9 natural properties, 30 cultural properties, and 4 double properties) approved by UNESCO for inscription on the World Heritage List, ranking third in the world in terms of number, after Italy (47, including transnational projects) and Spain (44, including transnational projects).

On June 21 and 22, 2013, the 37th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee formally adopted a resolution to include the Hani Terraces in Honghe Autonomous Prefecture, southeastern Yunnan Province, China, and the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang in the newest list of world-renowned heritage sites, respectively. The 38th session of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, held in Doha, Qatar, on the morning of June 22, 2014, considered and approved the inscription of China's Grand Canal project and China's Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan's transnational joint nomination of the Silk Road project on the World Heritage List, making them China's 32nd and 33rd World Heritage Sites.

The Silk Road is China's first joint transnational inscription. This brings the total number of World Heritage sites in China to 47, which is the second highest in the world.

China has one of the most complete sets of World Heritage sites in the world, and the largest number of natural and cultural World Heritage sites (alongside Australia), with the capital city of Beijing having the largest number of sites in the world, with six. And Suzhou is the only Chinese city to have hosted a meeting of the World Heritage Committee so far (28th session, 2004).

China's 5000 years of culture hold an incalculable amount of cultural heritage, and Chinese culture is a window to the world.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia- Chinese Cultural Heritage.

3. What is the significance of learning to understand the World Heritage

Although the object of protecting the World Heritage is material culture, the emphasis is on spiritual culture - history, religion, thought, art, technology, etc.

These are the things that make the World Heritage so special.

These "heritages" contain the spirit and wisdom of mankind, and with their historical height, cultural thickness, and natural life, they tell people that economic development cannot destroy nature and heritage, and that the world is a place where human beings live in harmony with nature, and human beings live in harmony with culture. Cultural heritage is something inherited from ancestors, but what is left behind is not the so-called material "family property", but the living culture taught by word of mouth, including the content and methodology, which is passed down from generation to generation, and the flesh and blood of the inheritors is the carrier of the culture.

The modes of transmission include family, master-disciple, community, group and social transmission. If the transmission stops, the intangible cultural heritage becomes a witness of history and sometimes disappears completely.

Therefore, without an inheritor, there is no ICH. The focus of intangible cultural protection is on the bearers.

4. Historical and cultural significance

Cultural heritage from the historical, artistic or scientific point of view, with universal value of buildings, carvings, paintings, relics, inscriptions and other cultural relics; in the landscape, architectural styles combined with the outstanding value of the building or architectural groups; from the historical, aesthetic and ethnographic point of view, with outstanding universal value of man-made objects or people and nature **** with the creation of the objects and works, such as the Forbidden City, the Qin Shihui, and the creation of objects and works. such as the Forbidden City, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang.

Historical cultural heritage refers to cultural relics that have certain historical significance, are closely related to human life, and have historical value, which mainly includes tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Cultural relics are the relics and monuments left behind by human beings in the process of historical development.

Various types of cultural relics from different sides reflect the social activities of human beings in various historical periods, social relations, ideology, and the use of nature, transformation of nature and the ecological environment at the time of the situation, is a valuable historical and cultural heritage of mankind. The protection, management and scientific research of cultural relics are of great significance to people's understanding of their own history and creative power, revealing the objective law of the development of human society, and recognizing and promoting the development of contemporary and future society.

Expanded:

How to protect China's outstanding traditional history and culture (a) to strengthen the theoretical research on Chinese traditional culture and the necessary material and technical support. A nation or a country, whether it is responsible for history or for the future, should retain its own cultural characteristics and protect its cultural heritage.

Strengthen the research and organization of Chinese traditional culture, draw the essence from it and make it flourish; discard the dregs and learn from history. For some rare traditional cultural materials, the state and relevant departments should give the necessary material and technical support to enable researchers to study.

(ii) Protection of the material carriers of traditional Chinese culture. For some cultural carriers of traditional cultural significance, such as villages, temples, streets, inscriptions, ancient cities and other buildings, but also some of the tangible material carriers of the culture of various ethnic minorities, such as clothing, utensils, agricultural tools, landscapes, sculptures and other works of art, etc., at all levels *** and the relevant departments to increase the protection of efforts.

(3) Reconstructing the value system of traditional Chinese culture. Many of the corrupt and backward components of traditional Chinese culture have been difficult to adapt to the needs of the practice of socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics, and will inevitably be abandoned by the metabolism of culture itself.

The inheritance and transformation of traditional Chinese culture should be oriented to modernization, the world, and the future of the consciousness of the times, and adhere to the principle of taking the essence and removing the dross, using the past for the present and the West for the future. In Chinese traditional culture, "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust", "harmony is precious", "love for all", "respect for virtue", "Self-improvement" and other universal cultural elements should be courageous to carry forward, and strive to explore the concept of cultural re-innovation in line with the development of modernization.

And the western culture contains the spirit of science, democratic thinking, the concept of the rule of law and other civilization achievements, can not be learned dogmatically, will be absorbed and digested, so as to make it Chinese, a natural part of Chinese culture, so as to make the value system of traditional Chinese culture more complete. (d) Broaden the channels of spreading Chinese traditional culture.