A few days before General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Jingdezhen City, Jiangxi Province, the National Propaganda Ideological and Cultural Work Conference was held, and Xi Jinping Cultural Thoughts was proposed for the first time. Come from practice, go to practice. This time I came to Jiangxi and went to Taoyangli Historical and Cultural District to learn about the protection and inheritance of ceramic culture, summarize the current situation, enlighten the future, and make people think deeply.
As early as 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping made two important instructions on the protection of the imperial kiln factory site; in May 2019, when inspecting Jiangxi, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed “to build the Jingdezhen National Ceramic Culture Inheritance and Innovation Experimental Zone. Create a new platform for foreign cultural exchanges.”
Yin Yin’s instructions, word for word, are not only a development blueprint drawn for the millennium porcelain capital, but also contain profound thoughts on building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation at a new historical starting point.
Protect inheritance
“Three sides are green mountains and one side is water, one city is filled with porcelain and half is filled with kilns.” Jingdezhen, which is famous for, prospered by, and established for porcelain, has a history of pottery making for more than 2,000 years, official kilns for more than 1,000 years, and royal kilns for more than 600 years. As time goes by, the thousand-year-old kiln fire gradually extinguishes, where should the porcelain capital go?
To protect inheritance, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the direction for the development of the porcelain capital.
All things are born, but only know how to keep their roots. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the word “protection” for historical and cultural heritage.
“We must protect the city’s historical and cultural heritage as we cherish our own lives.” “Archaeological relics and historical relics are witnesses of history and must be protected and utilized.” “Carefully protect the cultural heritage left by our ancestors and let the historical context To pass it on better”… During inspections and surveys, General Secretary Xi Jinping always warned earnestly wherever he went.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always cherished and respected historical and cultural heritage.
During the booming urban development and construction in the 1980s and 1990s, the former residence of Lin Juemin, located in the north corner of Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, was about to be “demolished.” Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Fuzhou Municipal Party Committee, heard the news and immediately stopped the demolition. After half a year, the renovation project of the former residence has quietly started…
Opening the book “Fuzhou Ancient Houses”, you can see the preface written by Xi Jinping: “Protecting ancient buildings and protecting cultural relics is to preserve history, preserve the cultural context of the city, and preserve the intangible fine traditions of the historical and cultural city.”
“Protecting cultural relics is also a political achievement” – under the guidance of the scientific concept that General Secretary Xi Jinping constantly emphasizes, the beautiful picture of seeing the mountains, seeing the water, and remembering the nostalgia is slowly unfolding on the land of China.
Innovation and development
How to not only satisfy people’s expectations for a better life, but also preserve the city’s cultural memory and continue its historical context? In this regard, General Secretary Xi Jinping has broad ideas and specific methods.
In 2013, he issued important instructions on the report on the preparation of the memorial hall for the former site of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Wuhan, emphasizing that “renovation should be done as before, retaining the original appearance, and preventing constructive damage”; during an inspection in Chaozhou, Guangdong in 2020, he emphasized that “over-renovation and over-development must not be carried out. Preserve the original historical appearance as much as possible”; during an inspection of the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi in 2022, it was required to “coordinate tourism development, characteristic management, and ancient city protection, establish a solid bottom line for the safety of cultural relics, and protect the precious wealth left to us by our predecessors”; in 2023 During the inspection in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, he emphasized that “it is not only necessary to inherit it well in the physical form, but also to inherit it well in the heart”…
Only by not forgetting the original can we create the future, and only by being good at inheriting can we innovate better. Under the care and promotion of General Secretary Xi Jinping, a large number of cultural heritage and revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization projects, such as the Beijing Central Axis and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, have been implemented in depth. Chinese culture is bursting with vitality and vitality through creative transformation and innovative development.
In today’s Jingdezhen, in the interweaving of inheritance and innovation, history and modernity, the ancient ceramic culture is constantly being “revitalized”, giving the millennium porcelain capital new connotations of the times.
Mutual learning among civilizations
China, the upper case means China and the lower case means Porcelain. Song Qingbai, Yuan Qinghua, Ming glaze, Qing pastel, each piece of exquisite porcelain shines through the past and the present, embodying the wisdom and sweat of craftsmen of past generations. It has become an important cultural symbol and carrier for China to go to the world and for the world to understand China. Porcelain As a result, Jingdezhen has become a shining cultural golden business card.
“Very few blue and white vases from the Yuan Dynasty have been preserved. This collection can be said to be the panda among ceramics.” In the Mengxia season of 2019, when faced with the exquisite cultural relics from the “Greater Asia – Asian Civilization Exhibition”, President Xi Jinping’s wonderful metaphor , which left a deep impression on foreign leaders attending the Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations.
This cultural treasure that shines like stars is the golden business card of Chinese civilization. Watch the traditional welcome ceremony of the Tang Dynasty with guests and friends attending the China-Central Asia Summit, invite the French president to enjoy the ancient music “Mountains and Flowing Waters”; visit the Mayan civilization ruins of Chichén Itza in Mexico, the Acropolis Museum in Athens in Greece, and Luxor in Egypt Temple… General Secretary Xi Jinping’s narration not only shows a China that is ever-changing from ancient times to the present, but also vividly explains that “civilizations are colorful due to exchanges, and civilizations are enriched due to mutual learning.”
“To understand today’s China, we must start with understanding China’s history,” General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized. “We are full of confidence in China’s development prospects.”
Continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, peace, and the confidence brought by five thousand years of Chinese civilization, we are walking on our own road with high confidence.
Planning: Du Shanze
Written by: Shi Fang
Editor: Han Wenjun
Proofreader: Julie
Photography: Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi
Visual: Yu Dongsheng Xu Liang Li Yan
2023-10-14 04:05:00
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