Time goes by, and in today’s turbulent modernization wave, the cultural foundation created by the ancient city will be passed down and carried forward, so that the ancient city has a long history and endless life, and Hangzhou will be promoted from a big cultural heritage city to a strong cultural heritage protection city.
Recently, with the consent of the provincial government, the list of the second batch of pilot projects for the revival of the Millennium ancient city in Zhejiang Province was officially announced, including Pingyao Town in Yuhang District of Hangzhou, Changhua Town in Lin ‘an District, Fenshui Town in Tonglu County and Shouchang Town in jiande city. The revival of the ancient city is not only the meaning of the high-quality development of the city, but also an important embodiment of cherishing history and culture. How to stimulate the vitality of the ancient city while protecting it? How to realize the inheritance of civilization and cultural continuity in the process of development? These are indeed no small tests.
The core area of Liangzhu Ancient City Site (Liangzhu Wangcheng) is included in the Millennium Ancient City of Pingyao this time, which is a holy place to prove the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years. Many historical buildings such as Nanping Tower and Jiu ‘an Bridge in Changhua Town are well preserved. Fenshui Town in Tonglu attracted many heroes and scholars such as Fan Li, Wu Zixu, Bai Juyi and Su Shi. The ancient city of Shou Chang has a long history. West Lake, temples, temples, wells, towers, bridges, pavilions, stone tablets and memorial archways are widely distributed in the area. Only by doing a good job in the protection of the ancient city can we retain the unique customs. To do a good job of protection, we should avoid utilitarianism, vulgarization and simplification, avoid making money and making profits under the signboard of promoting traditional culture, avoid spoofing historical facts and subverting cultural common sense at will, and avoid blindly praising and copying traditional culture. We may wish to protect the ancient city with more “historical patience” and more “historical common sense”.
To revive the ancient city, it is necessary to continue the history, inherit the context, and nourish the “new time” with history. Protecting the ancient city does not mean refusing to innovate and blindly restoring ancient ways. Developing in protection and protecting in development, tradition and modernity can be integrated and developed, and innovation and inheritance can complement each other. Society is always developing. Today, the revival of the ancient city should be in line with modern civilization, handle the relationship between modernity and tradition, development and people’s livelihood, constantly sum up experience, explore methods, and inherit and develop with historical, developmental and dialectical thinking and vision, so as to continuously endow the ancient city with new connotation of the times, adapt to contemporary culture and coordinate with modern society, and carve out a road for the protection and development of the ancient city to go hand in hand. Only in this way can the revival of the ancient city be rich in historical connotations.
“rivers and mountains are changeless in their glory, and still to be witnessed from this trail.” A temple, a building, a street and an alley have condensed many people’s life memories and contained rich humanistic information. Years have passed, and today, with the continuous surge of modernization, the cultural foundation created by the ancient city has been passed down and carried forward, so that the cultural context of the ancient city has a long history and is endless, and Hangzhou has been promoted from a big cultural heritage city to a strong cultural heritage protection city. Reviving the ancient city is to protect history, and protecting history can open the future. After all, this.It is also to cultivate our cultural self-confidence. Zheng Lina