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Original title: Learning from the past and knowing the future: Learning the history of the Secretary General: The culture that flows in the Grand Canal of the Millennium
On November 13, Secretary General Xi Jinping visited Yangzhou, Jiangsu, known as the “First Canal City in China.” In the Sanwan Canal Ecological and Cultural Park, the Secretary General learned in detail about environmental improvement and cultural protection, heritage and use along the Grand Canal. Why should the secretary general focus on the Grand Canal? What kind of illumination can we get from this long cultural river? After thousands of years, how can the Grand Canal be radiated with new vigor and vitality?
△ Click to listen to the audio of this issue of “Appreciating the past and knowing the future, learning the history of the Secretary General”
△ Yangzhou Section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand CanalThe Grand Canal: a key link and a valuable legacy
“It should be the heavenly religion that opened the Bianshui, and there is no mountain for over a thousand miles. This is the poetry of the Tang Dynasty poet Pi Rixiu who describes the Grand Canal in “Bianhe Nostalgia”.
The excavation of the Grand Canal has a history of more than 2,500 years. In 486 a. To fight for hegemony in the central plains, Wu Wang Fucha used the rivers, lakes, and natural harbors of the Yangtze River Delta to dredge ancient waterways and excavate Hangou. Since then, the Qin, Han, Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern dynasties continued to build and extend the river.
The Sui dynasty was the most important stage in the formation of the Grand Canal. In 605 AD, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered the opening of the Ji Canal. In 608 AD, the Yongji Canal was reopened. Little by little a connection between the Haihe, Yellow, Huaihe, Yangtze and Qiantang rivers was formed, starting from Beijing and Hangzhou and with a center in Luoyang. Water transport arteries.
After the Yuan Dynasty, when Beijing became the national political center, the shipping destination of the Grand Canal was also transferred from Luoyang to Beijing. The Yuan Dynasty cut and straightened the Grand Canal, greatly shortened shipping mileage and formed the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
△ In November this year, the “Zhou Qi Thousand Miles-Grand Canal Cultural Exhibition”, which is a schematic diagram of China’s Grand Canal, was exhibited at the National Museum of China.Along with the Luoyang-centered Sui and Tang Grand Canal, and the Zhejiang East Canal from Ningbo to the sea, the China Grand Canal is nearly 3,200 kilometers long and is the largest and longest canal in the world.
Navigation of the Grand Canal has greatly promoted economic exchange and development between North and South China, and has also promoted economic prosperity along the canal and the rise of cities.
If the Great Wall is the backbone of the Chinese nation, the Grand Canal is the flowing blood, a magnificent poem written in the land of China.
In June 2014, at the 38th World Heritage Conference, the China Grand Canal project was successfully selected on the World Cultural Heritage List and became the 46th China World Heritage Project.
△ The first episode of the documentary “The Grand Canal”: Millennium Waterway
Yangzhou: Born from the Canal and Thriving from the Canal
The Yangzhou that the Secretary-General visited this time is the origin city of the Grand Canal and the main city of the Canal inscription.
In 486 a. C., the ancient Hangou excavated by Wang Fuchai was the first canal in the history of China with an exact date. The birth of the Grand Canal in 486 BC. It is also considered the beginning of the history of Yangzhou. Yangzhou city was called “Han City” in ancient times, that’s why it was called Hangou.
△ This is the ancient canal on the outskirts of Fuyunmen in Jiangdu County during the ROC. At that time, due to the sediment of the canal in poor condition, the waterway was narrow and could only be used for short-term water transport.Yangzhou was born and flourished thanks to the canal. In the Tang Dynasty, Yangzhou was the most prosperous commercial city in China and the largest metropolis in the southeast. At that time, there was a saying, “Yang Yi Yi Two”, which said that among the richest cities in the country at that time, Yangzhou ranked first and Yizhou, today Chengdu, second.
As a city that coexists and grows together with the Grand Canal, after the successful implementation of the Grand Canal project, Yangzhou has 6 river sections and 10 heritage sites included in the World Cultural Heritage List, which is the largest city along of the Grand Canal.
Taking the successful application as a new starting point, Yangzhou used the world heritage standard to protect the Grand Canal and promote the construction of a famous city. The Sanwan Canal Ecological and Cultural Park investigated by Secretary General Xi Jinping this time is one of the masterpieces.
△ In the 1980s, the shipping pier of the old Yangzhou Canal was a stop during transportation. Wooden boats are a production tool and a home for boatmen.The Three Bays of the canal are the product of the canal’s straight curve to raise the water level and slow the flow during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty. In recent years, Yangzhou has used the original Sanwan canal wetland resources to begin construction of 3,800 acres of the Sanwan Canal Ecological and Cultural Park, relocated businesses, demolished docks, cleared illegal buildings, implemented dredging of water systems, reconstruction coating, wetland restoration, and greatly improved the ecological environment. . In Yangzhou, a high-value ecological corridor, a high-quality cultural corridor, and a high-efficiency economic corridor are developing in front of the world.
Today, in addition to Yangzhou, other cities along the Jiangsu section of the Grand Canal also have their own positioning, such as “Han Feng, Lofty Canal” of Xuzhou, “Taihu Pearl, Sweet Canal” of Wuxi, “Paradise Suzhou , Suzhou Canal “of Suzhou … … The Millennium Grand Canal has given new vigor and vitality.
△ The Grand Canal Museum under constructionCanal Story writes a new chapter
How to protect, inherit and use the culture of the Grand Canal? How to extract the living history of the flowing heritage? This is a proposal that Secretary General Xi Jinping has been thinking about.
In February 2017, the Secretary General emphasized during an inspection tour of the Beijing Grand Canal Forest Park that we should use the past for the present and deeply explore the historical and cultural resources with the Grand Canal at the core. He said that the protection of the Grand Canal is a shared responsibility of all areas along the canal, and Beijing should play an active role as a model.
In June of that year, the Secretary General gave important instructions for the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt: The Grand Canal is a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors, and it is a mobile culture that must be protected, inherited and used in a coordinated manner. .
△ Video 丨 Yangtze River Tour: Yangzhou, a city of canals
To implement the spirit of the important instructions and instructions of Secretary General Jinping, in February last year, the Central Office and the State Council issued the “Plan for the Protection, Inheritance and Utilization of the Culture of the Grand Canal.” The “Scheme” emphasizes the basic principles of insisting on scientific planning, highlighting protection, using the past for the present, strengthening heritage, optimizing design and rational utilization, to create a bright cultural belt, a green ecological belt and a colorful tourist belt of the Grand Canal.
△ Hangzhou: Gongchen Bridge on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand CanalThe culture rejuvenates the country and prosperity, the culture is strong and the nation is strong. In the new journey of building a modern socialist country in a comprehensive way, the history of the canal will write a new chapter, and the thousand-year context is constantly flowing.
Producer 丨 Shen Yong Zhao Xue Xue
Lead Author 丨 Huimin Liu
Transmission 丨 Chun Li
Audio Production 丨 Liu Yifei
Vision 丨 Chen Kuo
Editor 丨 Wang Jiyang
