Chao News reporter Ji Yuya Zhang Yu.
The young sinologists attending the meeting took a commemorative photo at the meeting. Photo by Chao News reporter Yao Yingkang and Yao Huimin.
The "Liangzhu Forum", hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the People's Government of Zhejiang Province and the China International Cultural Exchange Association, will be held in Hangzhou on December 3. On the 1st, in the research center in the east of the Liangzhu Ancient City Ruins Park, a dialogue between history and reality was launched - the "Liangzhu Forum" young sinologists sub-forum was held here, with the theme of "exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations in the eyes of young sinologists in the new era", 43 young sinologists from 33 countries and well-known domestic experts and scholars, representatives and other about 150 people, discussed the Tao in writing.
Things are uneven, and things are also emotional. Philip, a professor of philosophy in Costa Rica, smiled and said "beauty and beauty together", and the audience applauded like thunder; Lepec of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna in Austria used a set of detailed data to describe the influence of Chinese culture in Europe; German scholar Ye Hanzhi jumped out of Liangzhu, **The difference between Chinese and Western perceptions of modernization...
How can exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations wade through the long river of history and find the value of today's times? The answer is inseparable from Liangzhu.
In dialogue with civilizations and encounters with young sinologists from all over the world, we might as well use the three most common images of Hangzhou to describe the first impression of the "Liangzhu Forum".
Bridge. Some liken culture to a river that flows from history to the future. Standing on the coordinate point of reality, looking at the past and the present, Masiunites Dimites, a sociology professor from Greece, keeps repeating one word: bridge.
He likened the Liangzhu Forum to a bridge across the river of cultures. "Liangzhu culture is the source of Chinese civilization, and its emergence has achieved a leap from 0 to 1. Mattheunitez came to Liangzhu for the first time, and he regretted that "in Europe, many people know about the Great Wall and the West Lake, but they don't know about Liangzhu yet. We need forums like this that allow us to communicate more directly and gain a deeper understanding of Chinese culture. ”
He specifically mentioned the news that nearly 20 suspected dams have been newly discovered around the ancient city of Liangzhu, "This is a great miracle and an empirical evidence of the origin of culture." I will bring all this information back to Greece so that my teachers and students can know about Liangzhu. ”
There are many people who want to praise this "bridge". Kong Xiaowen, a young sinologist from Poland, picked up a piece of mung bean cake in the style of the Liangzhu cultural emblem and walked to the sun to take a photo, "I feel like I have tasted the taste of 5,000 years ago." He said, "Only when you really come to the field will you have the shock of encountering a miracle." Kong Xiaowen said that he would bring back what he saw and thought this time, "to tell my friends a different China."
This "bridge" connects the familiar and the unfamiliar, the historical and the real, the known and the unknown. Wang Wei, chief expert of the Chinese civilization exploration project and member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, specially wore a badge of Liangzhu culture on the chest of his clothes. In his view, through archaeological discoveries and dialogue among civilizations, the world can better understand ancient China, understand the present China, and understand the future China, "A series of archaeological discoveries of the Liangzhu culture have unique significance and value in enhancing the understanding and recognition of Chinese civilization." ”
At a time when exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations have become a "rigid need", this "bridge" is born at the right time.
Road. Culture needs bridges, and it also needs roads that lead vertically and horizontally to distant places. The Cultural Silk Road has thus become the place where scholars at home and abroad are projected on this forum.
In Austria, I am a historian. In Liangzhu, I feel like I have become a student of history and have a more three-dimensional understanding of the cultural Silk Road. Repek, Vice President of the Eurasia-Pacific Academic Association and Director of the Office of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, Austria, made a speech on the theme of the forum, "The 'Cultural Silk Road' in the Eyes of Young Sinologists and the People's Heart", which amused the sinologists in the audience.
Zhang Yinglan, a professor at Zhejiang University's School of Art and Archaeology, exemplified the characteristics of cultural exchanges along the Silk Road: of the six aristocratic tombs excavated in the Tila Mound in Afghanistan (around the 1st century AD), three tombs were buried with Han-style bronze mirrors. A gilded silver pot unearthed from the tomb of Li Xian, the founder of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in Guyuan, Ningxia, has a superb handicraft technique in the style of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty in the 6th century AD, and the outside of the pot body depicts an ancient Greek mythological story.
Along the Silk Road, history has repeatedly proven that culture can transcend time, space, and even culture itself. In the words of Philippe, a professor of philosophy at the University of Costa Rica, who participated in the dialogue, "The Cultural Silk Road strengthens the dialogue of civilizations and cultural exchanges, not only the beauty of each, but also the beauty of others, and the beauty of the United States, and finally the realization of 'universal harmony'".
With the narration of sinologists from all over the world, the new brilliance of the cultural Silk Road bloomed at the forum: the University of Costa Rica has established the Latin American Sinology Research Academic Network for six years, and more than 100 sinologists from all over the world have joined. Every month, Academic Network organizes a virtual forum on Chinese culture. The Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna in Austria organizes 3 to 4 ** sessions every year to taste the beauty of Chinese culture in Chinese lyrics...
As a scholar of the Shanghai class of the Chinese Young Sinologists Program, Ivana, a lawyer from Serbia, told reporters that mobile apps such as TikTok are more popular in Serbia, and she can feel that there are more and more young people around her who like China.
At a time when exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations are becoming more and more extensive, this "road" is of great importance.
Window. Liangzhu in late autumn is recorded in the mobile phone albums and laptops of sinologists of different languages and colors, opening the window of China to the world.
Inside the window, the story of beauty and beauty happens all the time.
Whether it is a speech at the conference or a post-conference exchange, sinologists take the Chinese language as their first choice. In the keynote speech of the forum by Adili Kawukenov, chief researcher of the Institute of Strategic Studies in Kazakhstan, the reporter saw that he annotated the pinyin and tone of the words. Adili said that with the increase of cultural exchanges between the two countries, China has now become the second largest destination for Kazakh students to study abroad.
Dasha, a translator from Belarus, in order to match Liangzhu's temperament, specially "tao" a red cardigan Chinese blouse, with embroidered auspicious meanings on the cuffs. "In the future, I want to bring my family to Liangzhu for a walk. She said.
Outside the window, the warm exchange makes the future more possible.
Philip and Xiang Ming, director of the Zhejiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, did not know each other before. However, because of the common expectation of promoting cultural exchanges, they met each other at first sight and had a good conversation. The sparks that collide will follow Philip back to Costa Rica.
During the tea break of the forum, An Li, a cultural teacher from Morocco, kept showing off her WeChat*** and many sinologists and reporters added friends to each other.
At a time when the momentum of exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations is getting stronger and stronger, this "window" is fascinating.
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The interaction brought about by the Belt and Road Initiative has far-reaching implications.
Adili Kawukenov, chief researcher at the Institute of Strategic Studies of Kazakhstan.
The Silk Road has become a special channel and carrier for exchanges between Eastern and Western civilizations, and has made important contributions to promoting cultural and cultural ties between the East and the West.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Belt and Road Initiative. Over the past 10 years, China has provided opportunities for young people from Belt and Road countries to study in China, such as the Young Sinologists Training Program we participated in this time, so that students, teachers and young scholars can experience China's cultural, technological and educational development achievements first-hand.
As we all know, Kazakhstan and China have always attached great importance to bilateral cooperation and exchanges in the fields of culture and education. For example, the two countries have signed agreements on scientific and technological cooperation and mutual recognition of higher education qualifications. I believe that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has brought educational cooperation between Central Asia and China to an unprecedented level, starting from a single exchange to reaching thousands of young people who want to learn Xi from China's advanced experience.
As Kazakh Tokayev said, good-neighborly and friendly relations with China have always been one of the priority directions of Kazakhstan's diplomacy. Kazakhs know that "distant relatives are better than close neighbors". It perfectly reflects the political, economic, social, and cultural closeness between the two countries.
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The position of the Liangzhu civilization in the history of world civilization.
Member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Faculty of History.
The position of the Liangzhu civilization in the history of world civilization can be seen from several aspects:
First of all, the Liangzhu civilization is dated to 5300 to 4300 years ago, which is the earliest civilization found in China. The city walls and palace buildings in Liangzhu are dated to about 5,000 years ago, which is close to the age of other countries in the world, such as the Sumerian civilization in the two river valleys of West Asia and the ancient Egyptian civilization.
Second, the Liangzhu civilization, along with the Sumerian civilization in the Lianghe River Valley, ancient Egypt and ancient India, were the first civilizations in their original form. What is a primitive form of civilization? That is to say, such a civilized society exists independently, and is not a civilization that is born under the influence of other civilizations. The world's four earliest ancient civilizations were all primitive civilizations.
Third, China's rice farming, including the Liangzhu civilization, spread outward, and it had an impact on the origin of rice agriculture in Japan and other countries.
Fourth, the ritual culture represented by the jade ritual vessels and silk developed by the Liangzhu civilization is a culture of peace. The ancient Chinese people have known as "turning the dry war into jade silk", "dry war" is **, representing force and war, and "jade silk" is a ritual weapon, representing peace and harmony. Therefore, Chinese culture has been outstanding in its peaceful nature since ancient times.
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Liangzhu is the forerunner of the road of oriental civilization.
Xiang Ming, director of Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology.
The ancient oriental civilization that is unique in the world, so far, the most systematic and sufficient archaeological evidence is the Liangzhu civilization.
As the highest achievement of rice civilization in East Asia, Liangzhu naturally has its origin and development process. These factors include the study of the environment and resources of the place where rice agriculture originated, including the unique physical geography and the long-standing cultural traditions that have led to the rapid development of rice production technology and scale in the region.
With the accumulation of wealth and the intensification of social stratification, in the Liangzhu culture period, the systematization of the cosmology represented by Cong and the accompanying sun-god-style "ancestral gods" widely recognized and worshiped by the whole society appeared in the Liangzhu civilization.
The Liangzhu civilization is a jade civilization that worships and uses jade. Liangzhu jade ritual ware is unique among Chinese prehistoric jade, whether it is jade identification, carving technology, or group compatibility, it is the highest peak of the development of prehistoric jade culture.
Liangzhu is a holy place that proves the history of Chinese civilization for more than 5,000 years, and the various material and cultural achievements of Liangzhu civilization and the opening of the jade ritual civilization have made original contributions to the "Chinese plan" for the definition of civilization and the identification of civilized society, and provide a typical example of highlighting the historical and cultural value of Chinese civilization, embodying the spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation, and showing the world a comprehensive and true ancient China and modern China.
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Today, the Silk Road cultures are more connected than ever.
Vice President of the Eurasia-Pacific Academic Association and Director of the Office of the Confucius Institute at the University of Vienna, Austria.
I spent a lot of time researching the Silk Road. The impact of the Silk Roads has always been very widespread, and it was not just about transporting goods and people from one end of Eurasia to the other. There is something more exciting about traveling with people, and that is the view of the humanistic world and the humanistic worldview. In addition to commodities, these ideas inspire thinkers and leaders, laying the foundation for mutual understanding and communication.
Today, more than ever, Silk Road culture is more closely linked to people, countries and cultures. Within the framework of this initiative, cultural and people-to-people exchanges have been promoted and become even more important.
Allow me to give two brief best practice examples of this kind of people-to-people communication, with a focus on academic collaboration.
The first example is the Eurasia-Pacific University Cooperation Association, an association of more than 170 universities with specialized institutions, 30 in Austria alone and more than 70 in China, which promotes the exchange of doctoral students and scholars between its member universities and offers a large number of collaborative projects and scholarships.
As a second example, I had the opportunity to participate in the Young Sinologists Training Program in Shandong this year, which is a testament to the fruitful cooperation between countries, all thanks to the realization of the cultural dream of the Belt and Road Initiative.
These activities build cultural bridges for mutual understanding and promote cooperation and exchange.
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