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The Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Festival opens and 39 thematic activities will be held in 8 main sections; Selection of “Net Celebrity Registration Places” Begins for the Beijing Section of the Grand Canal
A concentrated display of archaeological achievements at the inauguration of the Grand Canal Cultural Festival
The 2020 Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Festival opened yesterday. The Grand Canal Cultural Festival’s theme is “Walking the Canal and Empowering a Well-off Society”, and 39 thematic activities will be held in 8 sectors. During the cultural festival a batch of literary works with the theme of the Grand Canal will be exhibited. A series of exhibitions, conferences and other events on the Grand Canal will be held successively for the public. In addition, the selection of “net celebrity registration locations” was launched in the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, and the final results of the selection will be announced at the closing ceremony.
Beijing News The 2020 Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Festival was opened yesterday. During the cultural festival, various online applications, selections, literary creations and a series of exhibitions of intangible cultural heritage will be held, and the first forum of the intangible cultural heritage of the Grand Canal.
It is reported that the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, spanning the millennium and spanning seven districts, will fully implement heritage protection, environmental improvement, water system management, cultural excavation, tourism promotion and interregional cooperation projects. Beijing has clarified the medium and long-term goals for the protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal culture in the three stages of 2025, 2035 and 2050, and has made arrangements.
Grand Canal themed concerts, dramas, etc. are staged one after another
The theme of the Grand Canal Cultural Festival is “Walk the canal and empower a wealthy society.” There will be 39 thematic activities in 8 sections, including art creation, public participation, cultural and sports integration, intangible cultural heritage activities, special exhibitions, cloud exhibits, academic conferences and Extension activities, etc.
During the cultural festival a batch of literary works with the theme of the Grand Canal will be exhibited. Among them, the special concert of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra “The Grand Canal · Peking Opera” took advantage of Huiban’s 230th anniversary to enter Beijing and will perform the seventh symphony “Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal” and “Opera Symphony from Beijing “. The “Flowing Melody-Caprice of the Grand Canal” ethnic concert will showcase selected music from eight provinces and cities along the Grand Canal. The dance drama “Cao Xueqin”, the theatrical drama “Nine Songs”, the drama “The Return of the Egret” and the historical commentary “Shoujing Longquan” will also be performed one after another.
In addition, the excellent repertoire “One City, Three Belts” will be organized for the North Kunqu Opera Theater, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, the Beijing Opera Company and 9 other Beijing cultural performance groups to perform 12 excellent repertoires. ; Typical music of the intangible heritage, dance of the intangible cultural heritage and theater of the intangible cultural heritage will be exhibited.
During the Grand Canal Cultural Festival, a series of “Rhythmic Canal” public sports activities will be launched and cultural heritage routes will be established (Sanmiao and One Pagoda to Baliqiao Route, Dongbianmen to Qingfeng Gate Route, Changhe Route, Changping Dongguan Route to Baifuquan Route, Shichahai Line, Yuhe Old Road Line, Shunyi Chaobai River Line), which links an important cultural heritage along the Grand Canal through sports such as hiking, cycling and marathon.
The Grand Canal themed exhibitions and conferences open together
Recently, there have been several exhibitions and lectures for the public on the theme of the Grand Canal.
“The Grand Canal: The Past and Present of the Ancient Jade River”, “Crystal Clear Waters and a Long Grand Canal”, “Beijing Grand Canal Cultural and Heritage Belt” and other academic lectures, invited experts and scholars to discuss the origin, the process of change and the Grand Canal from a professional perspective The important role played in the history of China is eloquently explained.
The “Thousand Miles of Ships-Grand Canal Cultural Exhibition” comprehensively demonstrates the role of the Grand Canal in maintaining national unity, prosperity of the social economy, promoting ethnic integration, promoting cultural exchanges and prosperity. from the cities along the route. The “Grand Canal Cultural Belt Archaeological Achievements Exhibition” showed the results of archaeological work of sites along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, including Baifu Spring, Yuhe, Xibanqiao, the ancient Grand Canal Highway, which surrounds Lu County Ancient City, and Zhangjiawan Ancient City. The “Xiao Queen Mother River Themed Exhibition” will fully demonstrate the culture of water transportation, showcase the achievements of the Xiao Queen Mother River in river treatment, and the development of the Xiao Queen Mother River as the “grain transportation river.”
This cultural festival also focuses on non-heritage heritage along the Grand Canal. “Integrating the North-South Dialogue-The First Grand Canal Intangible Heritage Forum” will build a platform for the innovative development of North and South intangible heritage integration, bring together the intellectual resources of the Grand Canal intangible cultural heritage and explore actively research, inherit and disseminate China’s intangible cultural heritage. The “Intangible Cultural Heritage · Ordinary People Challenge” selection will collect online talent from the “Intangible Cultural Heritage” from all areas along the Grand Canal, conduct a selection of non-heritage folk art and cultural heritage events, and invite non-genetic heirs to compete and live online. .
Launch the “net celebrity registration site” for the Beijing section of the Grand Canal
This cultural festival will also launch a group of “net celebrity registration sites” in the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, highlighting the cultural vibrancy and tourist charm of the Grand Canal, and providing citizens with more personalized and quality travel options. . At the opening ceremony of the cultural festival, representatives from various districts along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal took the stage to recommend “net celebrity registration places” worth visiting in the district. At the same time, the “Clouds on the Channel” activity series will also collect and display related content. The final results of the selection will be announced at the closing ceremony.
Various forms of online application activities will invite the public to participate in the exchange. The Grand Canal Themed Video Creation Contest will lead audiences to enter major locations in the eastern section of the Grand Canal, such as Nanluogu Lane, Nanxincang and Datong Binhe Park. Creating short videos will showcase the Grand Canal style from multiple angles; “The event will invite experts and academics to speak about the changes in Shichahai face-to-face, encourage the public to take pictures of the Shichahai landscape, and make a selection of photographs online; the Grand Canal Cultural Innovation and Creative Design Contest will bring together design forces to provide non-genetic heirs and intangible heritage brands, cultural enterprises Custom design of cultural brands, museums and cultural tourist attractions and market transformation.
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The first large-scale foundry remains found around the ruins of the ancient city of Lu County
The 2020 Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Festival opened yesterday, and the archaeological achievements of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt will be displayed at this event.
The reporter learned from the Beijing Municipal Office of Cultural Relics that in recent years Beijing has increased the protection of cultural relics along the Grand Canal (Beijing section) and has taken advantage of historical and cultural resources with the Grand Canal as nucleus. They have been to Baifuquan, Yuhe Old Road, and Lu County Old Town. Important archaeological findings have been obtained at 9 other sites. Site types include gates, levees, bridges, piers, and other hydraulic remains of the canal and city sites.
Archaeological work on the Beijing section of the Grand Canal has achieved initial results. In 2018, archaeologists carried out archaeological work at the sites around the Baifuquan site, the stage, and the Dulongwang Temple. The archaeological exploration area was 12,000 square meters and the Baifuquan Jiulong Pool was discovered. The water outlet basically determined the extent of the Jiulong Pond and the direction of the ancient Baifu spring.
The archaeological results show the origin of the Grand Canal and the old city of Beijing. Archaeologists excavated the Tonghui River, Yuhe Site, Xiban Bridge, and river channel sites, unearthing the Tonghui River in the Yuan Dynasty, the Yu River in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Dongbuya Bridge. And important relics such as Clarifying the Middle Gate, Clarifying the Lower Gate, Erdao Bridge, Yuhe Temple and cleaning the site of the Xibanqiao River bridge and canal in the Ming Dynasty, further enriching the internal connection and cultural connotation of the Grand Canal. Cultural Belt and the Old City.
Archaeological research, exploration and excavation work carried out in conjunction with the construction of the Beijing City Sub-Center Project have also produced new discoveries related to the Grand Canal. Archaeologists discovered the ancient Grand Canal route before Jiaqing 13 AD in the Qing Dynasty (1808), which is of great importance for the study of water transport in ancient China. This is also a testament to the rise and fall of water transport on the Grand Canal during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Found in Qianlong’s “Tongzhou History” Xiaoshengmiao recorded site is the first archaeological discovery of the temple site dedicated to the river god in the Beijing section of the Grand Canal. It is of great value for the study of the culture of water transport; the Shanren Bridge site was discovered in Zhangjiawan, which was “built in the 33rd year of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Jinru The” Supervised Manufacturing “inscription is exactly the same as the Tongyun Bridge inscription, the Grand Canal composition, a national unit for the protection of key cultural relics, located just 1.4 kilometers away.
At the same time, in the ancient city of Han Dynasty Road County along the Grand Canal, the city walls, trenches and local roads were excavated, as well as the southwest, south and southeast relic areas outside the city wall. city, covering an area of about 36,000 square meters. Scope, form, composition, age of establishment and age of abandonment, etc.
In 2020, a certain amount of foundry slag, furnace wall debris, stone debris (sand) and other related relics were unearthed in a concentrated manner in 2020, in the southwestern outskirts of the ancient city of Lu County. foundry. This is the first time that foundry-related large-scale craft remains have been discovered around the ruins of the ancient city of Lu County. It has provided important data for the study of the development of the handicraft industry and economic development in the Lucheng area during the Han Dynasty. The launch area provided important clues and foundations.
Beijing News reporter Ni Wei
