Lanzhou, January 29 (Yan Jiao, Feng Zhijun) In recent years, "Silk Road cultural relics" have "visited" each other online and offline, and carried out intensive "dialogues". Cheng Liang, director of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, said in an interview with reporters on the 29th that this year, Dunhuang cultural relics will be exhibited in Italy, Greece and other places; Some of the artifacts are intended to be found in Austrian universities; The Gansu Provincial Museum will also promote links with Hong Kong, China and Belt and Road countries. At the same time, Gansu cultural relics will be introduced online to the world.
Tourists visit an exhibition of cultural relics at the Dunhuang Museum in Gansu Province on August 27, 2023. Photo by Zhang Xiaoliang (data map).
Cheng Liang said that in 2024, Gansu will also strengthen docking and communication with Britain, France, the United States, Russia and other countries, and expand the "Dunhuang Testament Database" and "Digital Dunhuang" resource library; Do a good job in running relevant international forums focusing on Dunhuang culture and grotto culture; We will carry out practical cooperation with friendly countries and regions in the protection and restoration of cultural relics, joint archaeology, museum development, dialogue among civilizations, and personnel training.
On the same day, the meeting of the director of the Gansu Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics disclosed that in 2023, the province will hold 4 high-quality outreach exhibitions in the countries of the "Belt and Road" and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions of China, and carry out 21 cultural exchange activities such as "Dunhuang Culture Global Connection" and international academic seminars, cultural forums, special lectures, etc., and more than 10 small programs such as "Cloud Tour Dunhuang" will cover more than 600 million visitors from 120 countries (regions), and the Gansu Provincial Museum will introduce the "Pakistan Gandhara Art Exhibition" ......
Dunhuang Academy is orderly promoting the international assistance project for the digital protection of Ta Bingyu Monastery in Bagan, Myanmar; Implement the digital restoration project of Dunhuang cultural relics lost overseas, reach cooperation intentions with relevant institutions in the United Kingdom, Hungary and other countries, and establish a database to enter more than 50,000 pieces of information. Cheng Liang said.
Referring to the results of the "door-to-door" exchange of Gansu's cultural heritage, Cheng Liang said for example, "Digital Dunhuang" was selected as one of the "Cases of China-SCO Cooperation in the Digital Field", and "Digital Dunhuang Open Material Library" was awarded the first batch of China's top ten cases of high-quality development of cultural relics.
As one of the important birthplaces of the Chinese nation and Chinese civilization, Gansu has more than 1 immovable cultural relics in the ** section of the Silk RoadThere are 60,000 sites, 7 world cultural heritage sites, and more than 100 national key cultural preservation units, including the famous Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Tianshui Maijishan Grottoes, the Hanming Great Wall, and the ruins of Suoyang City. (ENDS).
*: China News Network.