During the Republic of China period, in the conflict between the old culture and the new culture, scholars studying abroad abandoned the old culture, although the feudal idea is not worth advocating, but blindly abandoning the old culture is not a wise choice, the reason why China can have a culture of 5,000 years is not to rely on the new culture.
These cultures are all left over from the older generation, if the civilization dismantles them all, then how can future generations see the cultural inheritance? If we destroy the "Chronicle of History", bulldoze the Terracotta Warriors, and blow up the Mawangdui, then where will the major historical miracles of the feudal dynasty of more than two thousand years come from?
Since the founding of New China, the new construction of the capital is in full swing, the ancient archway was demolished first, and the issue of the ancient city wall in Beijing was also put on the agenda, in the "demolition" of the ancient city wall, the two schools of scholars debated endlessly, the school headed by Guo Moruo advocated "demolition", and the idea led by Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng was retained.
Beijing's ancient city wall has a history of hundreds of years, the Yuan Dynasty officially began to establish, in 1403, Ming Chengzu moved the capital beiping to Beijing, in 1406, Ming Chengzu ordered the construction of the palace, repair the city walls, the reconstruction of the palace is divided into four parts: the palace, the imperial city, the inner city and the outer city.
In history, the Ming city wall was also destroyed many times, and in the late Qing Dynasty, it began, the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Zhengyang Gate City Tower and the Arrow Tower were destroyed, and several urns and arrow towers were demolished during the Beiyang warlord period to repair the ring railway.
Liang Sicheng and his wife have always been committed to the preservation of the ancient capital, and the Japanese have honored Liang Sicheng and his wife as "ancient capital benefactors" because he successfully dissuaded the US bombing of Nara and Kyoto during World War II, and this time he also proposed to preserve the ancient city wall, and he gave suggestions for expansion.
He proposed to open the top of the wide city wall as a place to ascend to visit, and at the same time repair the moat outside the wall, green the two sides of the river, and create a new area on the west side of the old city as the "heart" of the new China.
But the support of Guo Moruo's "demolition" of the ancient city wall is still the majority, this proposal was finally beaten back, the "demolition" proposal was passed, but it is scheduled to start in 2 years, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin did not give up, they ran around lobbying, arguing according to reason.
Lin Huiyin's body is getting weaker and weaker, even if he ran for 2 years, he did not stop the demolition, most of the outer city walls were demolished, in 1953, Guo Moruo proposed to demolish the city towers of Chaoyang Gate and Fucheng Gate, Lin Huiyin heard that the condition was more serious, and she dragged her seriously ill body.
Hoarsely said: After demolishing these eight-hundred-year-old ancient city walls, even if you regret the restoration and reconstruction, the fake city walls have no sense of history, just a superfluous ornament. But no one listened, they thought that the vehicles of history were rolling forward, and these old buildings should not be preserved.
After several years of demolition of the ancient city wall, although it has been repaired a lot, it is only a fake in the end.