Recently, at the opening ceremony of the 2023 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced the recommendation list of the 5th National Most Beautiful Cultural Relics Safety Guardian. Liu Shenglong, the Shengsi Navigation Management Station of Ningbo Navigation Support Center of the Ministry of Transport and the former lighthouse director of the Flower and Bird Lighthouse, a national key cultural relics protection unit in Shengsi County, was awarded the title of “the 5th National Most Beautiful Cultural Relics Safety Guardian”, which is the only individual in the province who was awarded this title.
![](https://www.hzyyingyu.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/test-63.png)
Liu Shenglong is an old lighthouse keeper who has been guarding the tower for more than 40 years. He has been guarding five lighthouses, including Tang Nao, Fish Nao and Xiaoban. In 2007, Liu Shenglong was transferred to the Flower-and-Bird Lighthouse as the lighthouse director, leading the staff of the whole tower to be responsible for the daily and regular maintenance of the facilities and equipment of the lighthouse and its affiliated buildings. He always leads by example, and takes the lead in dangerous, bitter and tiring work. Whether it is the maintenance of a lighthouse tower more than ten meters high or the emergency repair when a typhoon strikes, his figure always appears in the highest and most dangerous place, setting an example for young colleagues for decades. While doing a good job in the protection of cultural relics, Liu Shenglong actively supported the development of the local government’s tourism economy, opened the flower-and-bird lighthouse as a tourist attraction for free, promoted the local economic and cultural construction, vigorously promoted and spread the navigation mark culture and patriotism, and stayed warm for 40 years, just like an immortal light, illuminating the spiritual channel of countless people.