Yesterday, Hangzhou held a “West Lake style and cultural protection” public opinion conference. At the meeting, Wang Qihuang, a literature and history expert, Yang Xiaoru, former director of Hangzhou West Lake World Cultural Heritage Monitoring and Management Center, and Bao Zhiyi, honorary dean of the School of Landscape Architecture and Architecture of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, were appointed as the supervision consultants of West Lake style and cultural protection.
A few days ago, the West Lake side willow transplanting problem affected the city. Willow in the West Lake, it is not an ordinary tree, but a cultural symbol.”Qiantang romantic West Lake willow”, swaying willows and misty rain hazy West Lake, has long become solidified poems, three-dimensional paintings, notes on the ground, has become the cultural coordinates that let people watch. This is the cultural image of the West Lake, is the vicissitudes of life left in the historical dust story. With them, the chronicle of our city is poetically written.
Smell is happy, know is not taboo, change is not afraid. In the face of social doubts, the relevant departments of Hangzhou timely responded and properly solved the problem, and held a public opinion conference yesterday to listen to the suggestions. Both citizens and government departments have a consensus that protecting the style and culture of the West Lake is not only the meaning of high-quality urban development, but also an important embodiment of the value of cultural wealth. Hangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city. Every wall and tile by the West Lake are all about culture, and there are all stories in the landscape. Every style and culture is not only a fragment of historical life, but also the inheritance carrier of the city spirit. We should protect our historical and cultural heritage as we cherish our own lives. This may also be our basic attitude towards the treatment of the West Lake style and cultural protection —— “minimum intervention principle”. We may as well be cautious and conservative, and do not easily change the antique scenery and the style and landscape formed by history, but also have a reverence for culture and a concern for public opinion.
The beauty of Hangzhou lies in the West Lake. The nourishment of the history and culture of the West Lake is not only in the history of thousands of years, but also in the daily life that can be known to participate in. The West Lake is the biggest urban cultural feature of Hangzhou. It is not only the aesthetic orientation reflected by Hangzhou’s natural endowment, architectural style and garden characteristics, but also the cultural accumulation of Hangzhou’s cultural origin, local customs and customs, and cultural features. It can be said that such a unique logo is the integration of history and reality, the intersection of tradition and modernity, and the encounter of material civilization and spiritual civilization. Such a unique logo runs through the overall style of the city and is reflected in the people’s market life. Such a unique logo is the soul of the city and the embodiment of the city’s soft power in the city. In fact, we not only have the West Lake in literature, the West Lake in history, but also the lively West Lake in people’s hearts. How many people came to Hangzhou just because of the West Lake, and eventually became the “new Hangzhou people”.
A unique city can give people a sense of belonging, identity and pride. Therefore, shaping urban characteristics and protecting the city’s memory is an important spiritual driving force to promote the sustainable development of the city. Who reads the West Lake, let who walk, and for who has a rest? People in the city, of course. The acceleration of The Times also urges people to better protect the “cultural city” and the “spiritual city” behind the West Lake. Only by keeping the context of the city interrupted can the spirit of the city last forever. Our commentator Zheng Lina