Cover news reporter Zeng Jie Dai Zhuxin
For the audience in Sichuan, Italian cultural relics are not unfamiliar. "The Eternal City - The Splendor of Ancient Rome", "Pompeii: Moments and Eternity - Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Unearthed in Pompeii" have been settled in the Jinsha Site Museum, and "Painted Mediterranean: Civilization and Fantasy of an Ancient City" has opened a super long exhibition period at the Sichuan Museum, allowing Sichuan people to see the exotic style from Italy at their doorstep.
From November 29th to 30th, cultural security and archaeology experts from China's Sichuan Province and the Campania region of Italy gathered online to launch a two-day international academic symposium on the protection and utilization of cultural heritage, giving the latest authoritative answers to the latest archaeological achievements of Sanxingdui and Pompeii sites, and also making prospects for the future cooperation in cultural protection and archaeology in Sichuan and Campania, Italy.
World heritage is a cultural treasure of all mankind, containing various forms of human values and creativity, which are not only the products of human creativity in the past, but also an important medium for us to understand and construct the past.
Wang Yi, deputy director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Sichuan Province and director of the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau
"China and Italy are both ancient civilizations with a long history, and exchanges between Italy and Sichuan are particularly frequent, and our cooperation in the field of cultural heritage protection and museums has yielded fruitful results." Wang Yi, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and director of the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics, introduced that in recent years, exhibitions of ancient Roman cultural relics, exhibitions of cultural relics unearthed in Pompeii, and painted Mediterranean seas have been exhibited in Chengdu, attracting nearly one million people to enter the museum to see the exhibition.
Italy's cultural preservation achievements
At the same time, the "World of Gods and Man - Special Exhibition of Sichuan Ancient Civilization" has been unveiled in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy, the Trajan Market in Rome and the Museum of The Place of Empire, offering a beautiful oriental cultural feast for the people of the world, which is the first time that Sichuan Province has systematically introduced the ancient Sichuan culture represented by the ancient Shu civilization to overseas, attracting hundreds of thousands of Italian citizens to watch the exhibition. The concentrated presentation of many heavyweight cultural relics presents the rich and colorful social life and spiritual world of the ancient Sichuan region for the Italian people, leading everyone to feel the extraordinary artistic imagination and amazing creativity of the ancient Shu ancestors.
During the 2018 "Western Expo", the Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics signed the "Cooperation Agreement between the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park and the Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau of China" with the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy and the Campi Flegrei Archaeological Park. In November 2019, the Sichuan Museum, the Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology signed a cooperation framework agreement with the Archaeological Park of Paestum, Italy.
Bronze artifacts excavated from Sanxingdui
Since last year, the Sanxingdui site has awakened the world and made a series of major discoveries, including six newly discovered sacrificial pits and nearly 10,000 cultural relics unearthed, making the world's eyes focus on Sanxingdui. Wang Yi hopes that this seminar can promote the exchange of scholars between China and Italy, "Chinese scholars introduced the achievements of Sichuan archaeology and cultural preservation, and at the same time, listened to the experience of Italian counterparts in cultural heritage protection and heritage management, and built a bridge of cultural ties between China and Italy." ”
Wang Yi revealed that China and Italy continue to carry out in-depth cooperation in the cultural field, and the Campania region of Italy and Sichuan Province have also maintained high-frequency and high-quality cultural exchanges, and will also carry out in-depth cooperation in archaeological research, site protection, cultural preservation restoration, and museum transformation in the future.
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