From Shanhaiguan to Jiayuguan, the majestic Great Wall, like a giant dragon, "bows" to explore the sea, "swings" the desert, "jumps" into the mountains, across thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, through the thousand-year-old context.
From the "bright moon of the Qin Dynasty" to the "important town of the nine sides", from the great construction project to the important symbol of Chinese civilization, the ancient Great Wall has been transformed into a national cultural park.
From the shore of the Bohai Sea to the Hexi Corridor, from offline to "cloud", the heritage of the Great Wall is protected, the value of the Great Wall is excavated, and the spirit of the Great Wall is inherited.
"Live" to explore the heritage value of the Great Wall
At the foot of Jiaoshan Mountain, Shanhaiguan District, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province, the "No. 1 Project" of the Hebei Section of the Great Wall National Cultural Park - Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum is stepping up its exhibition operations.
Look, that's our 'treasure of the town'!Standing in front of a giant floor-to-ceiling viewing glass window, Feng Zhen, deputy director of the China Great Wall Museum in Shanhaiguan, pointed to the Jiaoshan Great Wall in the distance, which was "invited" into the museum, and said, "Here, the majestic posture of the Great Wall and the four seasons of Jiaoshan can be seen in full view." ”
On December 6, 2023, tourists sightseeing at the Great Wall of Jiaoshan in Shanhaiguan. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
Jiaoshan is the first peak of the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty to cross the first mountain from the sea starting point from the sea, and is known as the "first mountain of the Great Wall" in the north. The Great Wall Museum of China in Shanhaiguan has been carefully designed to turn the adjacent Jiaoshan Great Wall into the most important cultural relics in the "collection", creating a unique viewing experience for visitors.
On December 6, 2023, tourists took a sightseeing tour of the old dragon head in Shanhaiguan. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
After the completion of the Shanhaiguan China Great Wall Museum, it will become a centralized display platform for the spirit of the Great Wall, the Great Wall culture and the intangible cultural heritage along the Great Wall, and become a new cultural landmark of the Great Wall. Feng Zhen's words were full of pride.
On December 6, 2023, tourists took a sightseeing tour of the old dragon head in Shanhaiguan. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
Let the ancient Great Wall "live" and tell new stories. Guided by the national top-level design, 15 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities along the Great Wall have integrated and built the Great Wall National Cultural Park with high quality, "stringing beads into a chain" of this large-scale linear cultural heritage. Actively innovate new ways and scenarios for the living inheritance of the Great Wall heritage, and strive to make the Great Wall heritage visible, sensible and usable.
As an excellent representative of the Great Wall, the Badaling Great Wall has received more than 200 million Chinese and foreign tourists and more than 500 heads of state and leaders. Yanqing District of Beijing has promoted high-quality emergency protection and research protection of the Great Wall, and has continuously held brand activities such as the Beijing Great Wall Cultural Festival, the Badaling Great Wall Summit Forum, and the Beijing Great Wall ** Conference, so as to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the Great Wall culture.
In Ningxia, the more than 170-kilometer Warring States Qin Great Wall is mainly an earth-built Great Wall, and after thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, some sections of the Great Wall are difficult to identify. In May this year, the Warring States Qin Great Wall Museum in Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, Ningxia Province, was officially opened to the public, where visitors can learn about how the Great Wall was rammed and listen to the cultural relics unearthed along the Great Wall tell that "the Great Wall is not just a simple earthen wall".
The Great Wall Cultural Corridor, formed by the Great Wall of the Warring States of Qin, closely combines the Central Plains and the Northwest Frontier, so that farming culture and nomadic culture converge here. In the museum's "Hometown on both sides of the Great Wall" exhibition area, the docent explained.
In the provinces along the Great Wall, the protection of the Great Wall is no longer limited to the past rescue and reinforcement, protection and repair, and safety protection0 version, and towards more emphasis on cultural value mining 20 stage forward. The object of protection of the Great Wall is no longer just architectural relics, but also a multi-faceted complex of cultural heritage, natural heritage and intangible cultural heritage.
Since 2020, Qinhuangdao City has held three sessions of the "Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Foot of the Great Wall" activity, and intangible cultural heritage items from Hebei Province and even along the Great Wall across the country have met in Shanhaiguan.
The little tour guide (first from the right) of the social practice class of "Guancheng Little Tour Guide" in Shanhaiguan District, Qinhuangdao City, explains to tourists in the first Guancheng Tower in the world (taken on August 22, 2019). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
Seeing people, seeing things, seeing life, living, using, and passing on, the colorful intangible cultural heritage is blooming into a new era of brilliance that empowers tourism development, helps rural revitalization, and promotes cultural prosperity, and has become an indispensable support point and eye-catching brand for the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park. Qiao Shurong, director of the Qinhuangdao Municipal Bureau of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Film and Television, said.
"Melting" together stimulates the cultural power of the Great Wall
Dajing Gate, the only pass named after "Gate" in the well-known passes of the Great Wall, is also the starting point of the famous ancient business road "Zhangku Avenue".
Historically, Zhangjiakou was the fur distribution center of the north, and the furs of the Mongolian Plateau and other places were concentrated here through the Zhangku Avenue, and the Wanli Tea Ceremony reached Europe through the Dajing Gate. On the eve of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the torch was passed through Dajingmen, showing the world the "great rivers and mountains", and "watching the Winter Olympics at the foot of the Great Wall" made the Great Wall shine.
Tourists take a sightseeing tour at Dajingmen in Zhangjiakou City on October 31, 2023. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
Driven by the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou sports and cultural tourism belt, Zhangjiakou strives to build a "great river and mountain Zhangjiakou" cultural tourism brand integrating "Zhangjiakou Fort + Dajingmen + Zhangku Avenue". "We insist on cultural and plastic tourism, tourism and culture, based on new consumption, new demand and new experience, and promote the transformation of traditional sightseeing and leisure tourism to in-depth cultural experience tourism. Duan Junhui, deputy director of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, said.
Scenery of Zhangjiakou Fort in Zhangjiakou City (taken on October 28, 2023, drone**) Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
The Great Wall culture accelerates the empowerment of high-quality development. With the construction of the Great Wall National Cultural Park, all localities along the route have actively excavated the Great Wall, a huge treasure trove of cultural resources, innovated the "Great Wall+", done a good job in "integration" articles, and promoted the in-depth integration of the Great Wall and tourism, the Great Wall and sports, the Great Wall and literature and art, and the Great Wall and rural revitalization.
Workers work at the repair site of the Great Wall in Shanhaiguan on June 15, 2023. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
Laoniuwan Village, Biguan County, Shanxi Province, where the Great Wall and the Yellow River "shook hands", tightly held the two "cornucopias" of the Great Wall and the Yellow River. "Before tourism, the annual per capita income in the village was more than 1,700 yuan, and now it is more than 20,000 yuan. Villager Lu Chenggui said that more importantly, after relying on the Great Wall to get rich, the villagers' awareness of spontaneous protection of the Great Wall has been greatly improved.
The important value of the Great Wall needs to be protected and promoted, and it needs to be developed and utilized. Beijing has launched 10 cultural exploration routes of the "Gyeonggi Great Wall" National Scenic Byway, involving six districts including Yanqing, covering the enemy towers of the city wall, military forts and military villages, anti-Japanese war sites, etc., and there are also country houses, hiking trails, intangible cultural heritage experiences, and online celebrity check-in places along the way, showing the rich cultural and tourism resources along the Great Wall.
Photographers' lenses testify that the foot of the Great Wall is becoming more popular, and the Great Wall is changing the lives of more and more people. "There are several stages of photographing the Great Wall, first photographing the scenery of the Great Wall, later photographing the cultural landscape of the Great Wall, with the rise of tourism along the Great Wall, began to photograph the changes in the lives of people at the foot of the Great Wall, and some people specialized in photographing the folk customs and intangible cultural heritage items of the Great Wall. Lang Xiaoguang, chairman of the Qinhuangdao Photographers Association, who has been following the Great Wall for decades, said.
"Gather" together to carry forward the spirit of the Great Wall era
The dragon's head explores the sea, makes the waves and dances the waves, the Great Wall embraces the sea with the old dragon head in Shanhaiguan, and after the tourists enjoy the wonders of the Great Wall on the sea, they often stop and meditate in front of an inscription tablet of "love my China and repair my Great Wall".
On December 7, 2023, tourists sightseeing in the Laolongtou Scenic Area of Shanhaiguan. Xinhua News Agency (photo by Li Duo).
In the 80s of the 20th century, the domestic rise of "love my China, repair my Great Wall" upsurge, the old dragon head as the head of the Great Wall dragon, its restoration has been enthusiastically supported by the Chinese sons and daughters at home and abroad, they generously donated, enthusiastically donated.
Today, in the process of building the Great Wall National Cultural Park, the Chinese people still show great enthusiasm. All sectors of society actively interact with the first departments and cultural protection units to form a strong protection force and jointly guard the spiritual home of the Chinese nation.
At the end of 2022, the Great Wall Museum of China in Shanhaiguan solicited cultural relics from all over the world, and once the news was released, people from all walks of life actively responded and supported the construction of the museum with practical actions.
The Great Wall Museum of China, Shanhaiguan (photo taken on December 6, 2023). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Shiyao.
By October this year, the Great Wall Museum of China in Shanhaiguan had collected 254 pieces of collections in 9 categories donated by people from all walks of life. "Many of the collections have precious historical and cultural value and scientific research value, which greatly enriches the number and types of cultural relics in the collection. Guo Ying, deputy director of the China Great Wall Museum in Shanhaiguan and head of the special class for the collection of cultural relics, said, "People from all walks of life help inherit the culture of the Great Wall through donations. ”
Carry forward the spirit of the Great Wall and continue the roots of civilization. All localities along the Great Wall have given full play to the unique role of the Great Wall in national defense education, patriotism education, and the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture, and the forces of all parties have been accelerated to gather.
The Gubeikou Great Wall War of Resistance fired the first shot against the Japanese invaders in Beijing. Miyun District, Beijing rebuilt the Monument to the Seven Warriors of the Gubeikou Great Wall of the Anti-Japanese War, and upgraded the Gubeikou Great Wall Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall.
The Red Army's Long March once "met" with the Great Wall in Guyuan City, Ningxia, and the heroic feelings of "not being a hero if you don't go to the Great Wall" have been passed down to this day. The local site of the Red Army's Long March camp in Qiaojiaqu was repaired and reinforced, the original appearance was restored and exhibited, and a patriotic education base and folk customs garden integrating red tourism and pastoral leisure were built.
Guo Ying, who is also the president of the Shanhaiguan District Great Wall Society, has insisted on leading young students to carry out the "Little Great Wall Explainer" activity for many years. "Sow the seeds of the Great Wall spirit into the hearts of children, and let the spirit of the Great Wall be passed on from generation to generation. Guo Ying said.
*:Xinhua.
Editor: Cui Tingting Editor: Gao Yuan.