Progress and development are the inevitable trends of history, and how to deal with those buildings that carry history but have become obstacles in the development process of the times is a headache for every nation.
If it is left behind, especially in the economically developed areas, it occupies precious land resources and needs to invest high maintenance and repair costs every year; if it is demolished, the country and this nation will lose their historical dependence, and the people who forget their own history will eventually become rootless duckweed and disperse as soon as the wind blows.
Therefore, I came up with a compromise method - to break up some part and leave a part of it, and to develop the remaining ones into tourist attractions, while also obtaining economic returns to make up for the cost of maintenance and repair.
This is also a thing that cannot be done, and it is the best solution to come up with the best of both worlds, but every year in the news, you can hear about the uncivilized behavior of tourists destroying historical buildings, and the increase in the number of tourists has led to the overwhelm and depletion of attractions.
History will eventually drift away with the wind, and so will these buildings that carry the wind and rain of the years.
All we can do is to make it exist as much as possible, to find a balance between the development of the times and the past, so that our descendants will have an impression of history not only as empty words in books and documents, but as thick and solemn as possible to truly walk in and witness with their own eyes.
The entanglement of Beijing's old city
Once on the old city of Beijing, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's views were at odds with most people at the time.
Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin and his wife have traveled to various parts of the motherland, and have visited local ancient buildings and conducted surveys and mapping, laying a good foundation for future generations to study ancient buildings.
When it comes to the question of the old city of Beijing, the couple's opinions are unified and firm - they cannot be demolished!
The Old City of Beijing is the best vehicle for showing the long history and unique culture of the ancient capital, and the old city has a history of 800 years at the moment when it decided to stay. In the next five thousand years of Chinese history, the change of dynasties, the destruction of war, and the baptism of time are a test for the preservation of ancient buildings.
The 800-year-old buildings of the old city of Beijing are still well preserved and full of ancient style, so how can such precious historical buildings be demolished?
Liang Sicheng and His wife's vision was to keep the old city of Beijing and build a new city in the western suburbs of Beijing, presenting it as a design of a two-city city, which not only retained the ancient buildings with a long history, but also did not cause too much obstacle to the development of the new era.
But such an idea was opposed by most people at the time. Because of the emancipation of the mind, people generally do not have much nostalgia and cherishing for the old things.
This is inevitable, and it is not easy to know that in that era it was not easy to achieve the universal emancipation of the people's minds, and we should not be too harsh on this matter.
Therefore, most people's thinking at that time was to look forward first, and everything else could make way for it, including those old buildings with historical value.
Wu Han, the deputy mayor of Beijing at the time, and the relevant soviet experts who aided China agreed that Beijing, as the capital of China, will inevitably have a large influx of people in the future economic development, and if according to Liang Sichenglin Huiyin and his wife's concept of a twin city, the size of the new city is not enough to accommodate so many foreign populations.
This is not unreasonable, the size of the new China is huge, the potential for future economic development is immeasurable, and Beijing, as the capital, will inevitably become the center of economy and politics. Although the establishment of the integrated twin cities can well preserve the ancient buildings of beijing's old city, it is bound to hinder Beijing's capital function.
The closer you get to the political center, the more you will inevitably have little land, and the old city of Beijing occupies such a huge area that the economic benefits it can bring in the future are immeasurable. Demolishing ancient buildings in exchange for economic gains is tacky and suspected of killing chickens and eggs.
However, it is impossible to leave ancient buildings to affect the development of the capital.
The main demolition faction led by Wu Han will not be short-sighted enough to completely ignore the historical and cultural value of the ancient buildings in the old city of Beijing, but as city builders, they also have to consider the functional planning of the capital.
This is a dilemma, to blame, can only blame these ancient buildings born in Beijing City.
I'm going to regret it in the future!
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, a pair of polite and polite cultural people, rarely quarrel with people to blush and have a thick neck, and even point at the nose and scold people.
As a professional architect, Liang Sicheng has traveled to China and deeply realized the historical value, architectural reference value and cultural value of the ancient architecture of the old city of Beijing, and these "old guys" who have spent eight hundred spring and autumn are treasures that can never be reproduced after demolition.
The mainland has experienced a long period of external troubles, and under the baptism of war and the destruction of the years, many ancient buildings with extremely high historical value have been irreparable damage and even reduced to ruins.
Most of the rest have not maintained reasonable maintenance, resulting in "how many buildings in the smoke and rain", all turned into the embers of history.
Wu Han
Beijing is the imperial capital of China's five dynasties, and even eunuchs in the feudal era had the saying that "accompanied the dragon all their lives, and they were more or less dipped in dragon qi", not to mention the city of Beijing at the foot of this tianzi. The long history, profound heritage, and splendid civilization are all condensed into brick by brick and become the imprint of the years.
As an architect, Liang Sicheng believes that every grass and tree in beijing's old city is full of the depth of history, and he will certainly not give up if he wants to demolish the old city.
To this end, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, a couple of high-ranking intellectuals, have always maintained good literacy, but at this time, they can no longer care about personal decency, and quarrel with the relevant responsible persons for the sake of the old city of Beijing.
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin have a very good reputation and do have excellent professional ability, so Wu Han, the deputy mayor of Beijing, who is in charge of the matter, also had to listen to their opinions.
Wu Han's idea of one twin cities is not something that wu Han has not considered, but first of all, he thinks that if the old city is retained, it will appear abrupt and inappropriate in the steel forest lined with high-rise buildings. And to build the new Beijing city into a twin city, the cost is much greater than originally expected, and it was a time when the country was in urgent need of money and materials.
Under comprehensive consideration, Wu Han still retained his own views, and persuaded Liang Sicheng that his thinking did not have to be too conservative, and these ancient buildings under the high-rise buildings in the future were like chicken coops and tile houses, which were out of date and had no cultural relics appreciation value.
Liang Sicheng, who loves ancient buildings, heard this and quarreled with Wu Han so much that he lost his voice and cried bitterly. He could not change this doomed result, and could only say with grief: "In 50 years, history will prove that I am right." ”
The pressure that Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin were facing at that time was enormous. Because it was not only Wu Han, most people at that time had this idea, in order to save the ancient buildings of the old city, they had a fierce dispute with many well-known people.
Lin Hui, who was already weak in bones, was even more ill with lung disease at that time and was not suitable for anger, because of this, he did not hesitate to make a big fuss, pointing at Wu Han's nose and scolding: "What you demolished is a real antique with an eight-hundred-year history!" You really demolished the antiques, and you will regret it in the future! Even if you restore it, it's just a fake antique at best! ”
The couple's words are almost a slur.
Historical choices
It didn't even take the fifty years that Liang Sicheng expected, what he said had already come true.
Later, in the 1990s, the demolished old Beijing ancient buildings were gradually restored, and history proved the correctness of Liang Sicheng and his wife, but what about this?
Those ancient buildings that bear history are demolished, and the eight hundred years of history will fall into dust with the ruins of the broken walls and never return to the past.
Even if the newly built restored buildings are similar, they are still newly built after all, without the soul accumulated over the years, and without the charm of the old Beijingers who can see a few pounds and a few pairs at a glance.
We cannot harshly rebuke Wu Han and a group of responsible persons of that year, judge history and always remember to put ourselves in the shoes of that era to consider problems, and how it is different from standing and talking about the wind and cool from a modern point of view.
The country is the moment of rejuvenation, so the transformation of the capital city can not be delayed, so the demolition of the ancient buildings in the old city is indeed conducive to development in the short term.
But history, which is "behind us," cannot be followed by leaps and bounds. No matter how powerful the United States is, it is only a short history of a few hundred years, a hodgepodge of the cultures of all the peoples of the world.
It is true that its strategy of forging hundreds of self-tree flags is still very successful, and it can be deeply investigated into the depth, thickness and breadth of its history, which is not the same as the civilization that has never been broken for more than fifty centuries.
We should bear in mind the lessons of the past and inherit and carry forward the glorious history.