The river and earth have a long and lasting cultural heritage.
This is an important demonstration place of Chinese civilization, announcing to the world the true history of China’s millions of years of human history, 10000 years of cultural history, and 5000 years of civilization, which is worthy of the reputation of “a nation of cultural relics”; This is the starting point of a century old party history, a red ship sailing towards the future; This is a highland for the inheritance and display of the millennium old Song rhyme culture, connecting the vast space and profound accumulation of ancient and modern times.
Tracing back to the source, it is the “August 8th Strategy” implemented in 2003, which takes further leveraging Zhejiang’s cultural advantages and accelerating the construction of a cultural province as an important measure to promote the work of cultural relics in Zhejiang to forge ahead.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Government have placed cultural relics work in a prominent position, and Zhejiang’s cultural relics cause has achieved remarkable results——
In the past decade, Zhejiang has added 3 new world cultural heritage sites, 3 new Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems sites, built 3 national archaeological site parks, announced 25 provincial archaeological site parks, increased the number of national key cultural relics protection units from 181 to 281, and increased the number of registered museums across the province from 252 to 420… Cultural relics and historical and cultural heritage throughout the province show the splendid style of ancient civilization, Write a new chapter in the cultural heritage industry on this land.
Luoyang shovel——
Continuously excavate historical achievements
A Luoyang shovel has “dug out” the memory fragments of the long river of human history. From prehistoric spark, to ancient glory, and then to modern transformation, Zhejiang’s profound cultural heritage has been continuously explored, always shining brightly.
In 2022, the ancient port site of Wenzhou (Shuomen) reappears the grand scene of a “millennium old commercial port”. Well-preserved ancient relics such as Wengcheng, Shuimentou, and Group Wharf, as well as sunken ships and tons of porcelain fragments, have restored the prosperous port scene of the Song and Yuan dynasties, which is rare both domestically and internationally.
This is not an isolated case. Counting these ten years, Zhejiang has achieved fruitful archaeological achievements and is renowned both domestically and internationally——
Major projects such as “Comprehensive Research on the Origin and Early Development of Chinese Civilization” and “Archaeological China” have repeatedly seen Zhejiang’s presence; The Qilitang Site traces the human history of Zhejiang back to 1 million years ago; The Pujiang Mountain Site has discovered the world’s earliest known remains of artificially cultivated rice; The Yuyao Shi’ao site has discovered the largest, oldest, and most fully documented ancient rice field remains in the world to date; The discovery of the world’s earliest painted pottery and rice wine at the Yiwu Qiaotou site; The peripheral water conservancy system of Liangzhu Ancient City was the largest water conservancy engineering site in the world during the same period; The early Yue kiln site of Shangyu Forbidden Mountain, the large-scale water conservancy system outside the Liangzhu Ancient City, and the Housi’ao Tang and Five Dynasties secret colored porcelain kiln site project have been rated as the top ten new archaeological discoveries in China, which can be called the “Oscars” in the field of archaeology
Ten years of exploration have accumulated success. Zhejiang has accumulated 537 archaeological excavation projects, with an excavation area exceeding 56.30000 square meters. The West Lake Cultural Landscape in Hangzhou, China’s Grand Canal (Zhejiang section) and the site of Liangzhu Ancient City have been successfully included in the The World Heritage List. A series of archaeological achievements have confirmed that Zhejiang is the main birthplace of rice, tea, lacquer, and porcelain in the world, achieving its reputation as the source of rice agriculture, silk, tea, and porcelain in the world.
The red mark casts the most vivid background of Zhejiang’s century long struggle.
Over the past decade, the “Opinions on the Implementation of the Revolutionary Cultural Relics Protection and Utilization Project in Zhejiang Province (2018-2022)” has been issued, comprehensively launching special investigations, rescue and protection, management research and other projects for revolutionary cultural relics. Our province has announced the first batch of 547 immovable revolutionary cultural relics lists and 9061 movable revolutionary cultural relics lists per set. There are currently 218 revolutionary museums and memorials, making red revolutionary relics traceable.
Relying on the red roots, one by one hundred years old red tourism boutique routes have been extended, entering the lives of the people; The “Centennial Party History Cultural Relics Talk” and “Revolutionary Cultural Relics Youth Talk” series of activities celebrate the wonderful stories behind revolutionary cultural relics; 376 red themed exhibitions and 2127 related activities received nearly 10 million visitors, making the learning and education of party history more vivid and lively.
Various cultural relics and relics depict the unique and colorful colors of Zhejiang. We are also pleased to find that the cultural soil in Zhejiang is becoming increasingly profound.
Leather tape measure——
Carefully measuring cultural heritage and strengthening the barrier
Cultural relics and heritage carry the genes and bloodline of the Chinese nation, and are non renewable and irreplaceable. Leather tape measure is commonly used to measure the depth and length of excavation pits, as well as the position of items. To carry out cultural relics protection work in Zhejiang, it is necessary to take out a leather tape measure, timely, accurately, and comprehensively calculate the “protected area” for cultural relics, and build a protective barrier of copper walls and iron walls.
save against a rainy day. The ancient moon bridge, which has undergone 800 years of baptism, is well-known in Yiwu. The rain and wind blew, and it gradually turned into a dangerous bridge. After preventive protection and repair of the ancient moon bridge, the old and dilapidated bridge was able to pass through, and the scene of “small bridges flowing water and households” returned to the peaceful village. Due to the successful implementation of the concept of minimal intervention and preventive protection in the repair project of the Guyue Bridge, it was awarded the Outstanding Project Award at the 2019 UNESCO Asia Pacific Cultural Heritage Protection Award.
Over the past decade, the preservation status of cultural relics in our province has been effectively improved. 523 national key cultural relics protection and repair projects, as well as 907 provincial-level cultural relics protection and repair projects, have been completed successively; Launch the ‘Save Old Houses Action’, with 265 old houses in Songyang, a pilot county, successfully repaired and passed acceptance checks. Over 1200 traditional buildings have been listed for protection; More than 200 ancestral temples and more than 20 ancient corridor bridges have been repaired, and the related achievements were recommended by the 2019 United Nations Habitat Conference and promoted nationwide.
Over the past decade, top-level design has been continuously improved.。 The provincial Regulations on the Protection of Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage was formulated and issued, 27 local laws and regulations such as the Regulations on the Protection of Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage, the Regulations on the Protection of Wenzhou Taishun Covered Bridges, the Regulations on the Protection of Taizhou Prefecture City Walls, and the Regulations on the Protection of Lishui Revolutionary Sites were issued successively, and the legal protection system of cultural heritage in the province was further improved.
We see that the entire province has gathered the strength and wisdom of all parties, and the protective barrier is becoming increasingly solid. A batch of major cultural relics with fire hazards; Leading the country in establishing a provincial-level cultural relic safety inspection team, promoting the establishment of volunteer teams for protecting treasures such as “Mom’s Treasure Protection Team” and “Entrepreneur’s Treasure Protection Team” in various regions, and focusing on building a new pattern of mass prevention and governance where “everyone is a cultural relic protector”.
Nowadays, the awareness of protecting cultural relics is constantly awakening in this rich place of Chinese culture, and the cultural relics cause in Zhejiang, which carries the mission and glory, will continue to shine brightly.
Woven bag——
Zhizhi Holds the Wonderful Universe of Culture, Museum, and Wonder
A cultural relic carrying a thick history; A heritage contains the password for the inheritance of civilization. The extracted cultural relics are often labeled and placed in woven bags. Each label is the ID card of the cultural relic.
How to systematically organize traditional cultural resources, so that the cultural relics collected in the deep palace and the heritage displayed on the vast land can all come to life?
As a pioneer in digital reform, Zhejiang injects a continuous stream of vitality into the cultural relics industry through digital technology innovation.
The province is implementing digital reform in the field of cultural and cultural heritage. Establish a comprehensive management system for Zhejiang Provincial Cultural Relics Museum and create a data cockpit for cultural relics resources; Launch the intelligent supervision application for cultural relics safety, and achieve color separation and early warning management for cultural relics safety.
Silk protein reinforcement technology, crepe yarn wrapping technology and other textile cultural relics protection “black technology” will restore fragile silk from the Yangshao period, Northern Wei, Tang, Southern Song, Ming and Qing dynasties one by one, and provide visitors with the charm of ancient techniques in the museum.
The world’s leading scanning, modeling, and 3D printing technologies enable Buddha statues sitting in grottoes to overcome cliffs and achieve cross regional exhibitions of immovable cultural relics. The five major grottoes in China gather in the same exhibition hall.
The desire to unite national cultural sentiments has been realized one by one; The completion of major cultural projects highlights history. The remaining mountain scrolls and useless teacher scrolls of the “Dwelling in Fuchun Mountain”, which has been divided between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait for more than 60 years, were exhibited in Taipei, creating a beautiful story in Chinese art history; The 16 year compilation and publication of the “Great Series of Chinese Painting” has established precise digital archives for 12450 sets of ancient Chinese paintings, making it a “national treasure” level document.Returning home in digital form; Published books such as “Collection of Treasures from Yue Di – Zhejiang Collection of Cultural Relics” and “Zhejiang Archaeology and Chinese Civilization” (Volume 1), outlining the cultural heritage stories of Zhijiang Land; The “Cultural Gene Decoding Project” explores the humanistic spirit, moral standards, technological processes, etc. behind cultural relics, providing a new path for the activation and utilization of cultural heritage.
The voice of civilization has spread further.
For three consecutive years, at the World Internet Conference, the “Internet plus Chinese Civilization” exhibition brought by Zhejiang has become a feature highlight; The “Silk Road Week” event held for three consecutive years has attracted more than 200 cultural institutions from 22 countries, with a total of over 50 million people participating in the linkage, and has launched international exhibitions such as “Silk and Silk Road: From Hangzhou to Samarkand”; The Third World Archaeological Forum, the Fourth World Archaeological Forum Liangzhu Tour, the 20th Anniversary International Academic Seminar on the Discovery of Mountainous Sites, and the 2021 International Academic Seminar on Sustainable Development continuously enhance the international influence of Zhejiang’s cultural relics industry.
In the past decade of the new era, Zhejiang’s cultural relics work has been ignited by a series of new achievements. Now, we have reached an important juncture in advancing from a province with abundant cultural relics resources to a province with strong cultural and cultural heritage. Only by overcoming obstacles and advancing bravely can we fulfill the mission of the new era.
Our reporter Li Jiaoyan