On February 5, Cao Peixin, deputy dean and professor of the School of Journalism of Communication University of China, delivered a speech. Photo: Beijing News reporter Wang Yuanzheng photographed.
On February 5, 2024, as the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon was approaching, Civilization magazine held a seminar in Beijing entitled "The Influence and Return of China's Overseas Cultural Relics". Experts and scholars have conducted in-depth research on the topic of "welcoming the New Year, going home for the New Year, and caring about the cultural relics that have been wandering abroad".
At the seminar, Cao Peixin, vice president and professor of the School of Journalism of Communication University of China, put forward his views. He believes that the loss and return of cultural relics is a dynamic process, and the most important thing is to properly protect cultural relics during their stay overseas. The recent theft of the British Museum's collection in the United Kingdom has attracted global attention, reminding us of the urgent need for professional protection of overseas antiquities.
Wang Xiaoyong, a researcher at the Shaanxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, also expressed his views at the meeting. He pointed out that throughout the 19th century, Western countries rose up to the enthusiasm for cultural relics, which led to a large loss and serious loss of cultural relics in China, especially in Shaanxi, Gansu and other northwest regions. Today, we have succeeded in overcoming all kinds of difficulties and successfully repatriating the cultural relics to our homeland, which is of great significance.
Cao Peixin further mentioned that the return of cultural relics is actually a very good topic and perspective for telling Chinese stories. The stories of cultural relics provide rich material for overseas dissemination. "The return of cultural relics is not only a cultural event, but also an economic event, but also a communication event, and its flow process is a storytelling process. ”
According to Gao Yang, director of the International Communication Research Center for South Asia and Southeast Asia of Chinese Brands at Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Chinese cultural relics themselves are an important part of Chinese culture, which can be regarded as a communication medium, and this medium has the value of traveling through time and space. "The process of cultural relics returning home is an event in itself, if it can receive a high degree of attention and effective dissemination, and arouse the public's attention, then the return of cultural relics is not only a historical process, but also can stimulate positive emotions in the public, such as self-confidence, patriotism, hard work, etc., which will help promote the external dissemination of Chinese culture. Therefore, the return of cultural relics is also an opportunity for culture to go global. ”
In summary, this seminar provided us with a positive atmosphere and made us more deeply aware of the importance of the return of cultural relics. It is hoped that through professional protection and effective dissemination, more people will understand, cherish and inherit Chinese civilization.
Views and suggestions: The return of cultural relics is a great and sacred cause, and each of us should work for it. The protection of cultural relics is the protection of history and the inheritance of culture. It is hoped that through such seminars and related activities, more people's awareness of cultural relics protection will be aroused, and more valuable cultural relics will be returned to the embrace of the motherland.
Question Guidance: What do you think about the significance of the return of cultural relics? What do you think can be done to better protect and pass on cultural heritage?