In the 5,000-year history of China, countless scenic spots and historical relics have been left behind, and these objects containing cultural heritage and the imprint of the times are still telling us about the brilliant splendor of the past dynasty.
Great Wall Walls
In addition to things, some celebrities who have stood out in the torrent of the times have also accumulated valuable spiritual wealth for future generations. Among them, Guo Moruo and Lin Huiyin are all talented and beautiful people born from the magnificent era of the Republic of China, who are not only quite accomplished in literature and art, but also have their own unique views and insights on historical and ancient buildings. However, in the face of the question of how to keep the ancient building of the ancient city wall in Beijing, the two had a great difference of opinion.
The four talented women of the Republic of China
Among them, Guo Moruo, as a historian, insisted on demolishing the ancient city wall of Beijing, which aroused the strong opposition of the architect Lin Huiyin, who ran for many days and failed to stop it with all his cruel words, and even eventually fell ill. Time has passed, and after the washing of time, people have finally found that Lin Huiyin's views on the ancient city wall are all right: this ancient city wall of Beijing can not be demolished. Unfortunately, it is too late to regret it now.
Ancient City Wall of Beijing
So, why did Guo Moruo tear down the ancient city wall of Beijing? Why did Lin Huiyin stop him?
Guo Moruo and Lin Huiyin
To talk about why the two people's views are different, we need to understand the two people's dispositions and positions.
As we all know, Lin Huiyin is a famous talented woman in the Republic of China period, a poem "You are a april day on earth", poetic and eternal to this day, it is enough to prove her talent, in the eyes of many people, she is a poet, writer, talent and appearance of the famous lady; but few people know, in addition to the gentle Juanxiu's identity as a literati, Lin Huiyin is also a first-class architect, the monument to the people's heroes of great weight is from her handwriting.
Monument to the People's Heroes
Lin Huiyin's association with architecture, dating back to the european travel period, was influenced by the landlady as an architect, determined to make a career in the field of architecture, and went to the United States with Liang Sicheng to study architecture systematically.
After returning to China, Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng visited most of China to carry out the investigation and protection of more than 2,730 ancient buildings in China, which took a total of nearly ten years, and they finally successfully cracked the mystery of ancient Chinese architecture and interpreted the true meaning of the ancient architectural book "Building French Style", which shows Lin Huiyin's love for ancient architecture. Therefore, for Lin Huiyin, the ancient city wall of Beijing cannot be demolished.
Lin Huiyin is photographed with others
On the other hand, although Guo Moruo is also famous for his unique literary creations, his research on history and historiography is also very in-depth. Many of Guo Moruo's works, such as Zhuo Wenjun and Wang Zhaojun, are "prosperous because of history, sighed because of history." Therefore, he has a strong critical meaning of the ancient feudal system. At the same time, he also focused on the research and analysis of ancient humanistic society and language and writing, and successively published ancient Chinese historical treatises such as "Research on Ancient Chinese Society" and "Oracle Bone Script Research", which shows that he has achieved a lot of achievements.
Guo Moruo
Therefore, also committed to historical research, the two disagreed on the ancient city wall of Beijing, and the problem lies in the difference in the field and direction of historical research. As a kind of historical and ancient architecture, the ancient city wall of Beijing is like the root of life for Lin Huiyin, who specializes in historical and ancient architecture, and she knows the importance of protecting and preserving ancient buildings; and for Guo Moruo, I am afraid that this is not the case. So, why was the ancient city wall of Beijing demolished, and why did Guo Moruo insist on demolishing it?
Guo Moruo and his family
Why demolish the ancient city wall of Beijing?
The ancient city wall of Beijing, built from the Yuan Dynasty, was built in the Ming Dynasty and continued to be used until the Qing Dynasty, experiencing a hundred years of vicissitudes. After Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, he built a city wall palace based on the ancient city wall, which was four times inside and outside to resist the invasion of foreign enemies and maintain the royal majesty, and inside its walls was the well-known "Forbidden City". Therefore, the ancient city wall of Beijing was also regarded as a symbol of the feudal imperial system.
With the advent of modern times, the feudal imperial system was in jeopardy. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the ancient city wall of Beijing was baptized by the Boxers and the Eight-Nation Alliance, and its Zhengyang Gate City Tower and Arrow Tower were destroyed; during the later reign of the Beiyang government, several urns of the ancient city wall were demolished in order to build the Ring Railway.
Until the founding of New China, everything was in ruins and waiting to be rebuilt, and the whole country was in urgent construction needs. After consideration by various senior leaders, it was finally decided to set up the capital in Beijing. So, after the capital is established, how should it be planned and built? This ancient city of Beijing, with its central location, spanning the east, west, south and north, has become the target of the capital's construction problems.
Beijing, the founding of New China
Among them, the ancient architectural school led by Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin proposed to build a new city outside the ancient city and build a history museum in the ancient city of Beijing to protect the buildings in the ancient city. However, Soviet architectural experts did not think so, they proposed that the political center of New China should be placed in the ancient city, so as to better highlight the uniqueness of the new Chinese regime, and the CPC Central Committee also deeply believed, so it adopted the plan of transformation and construction in the ancient city.
Ancient city walls
After the plan was determined, the whereabouts of the ancient city wall became an important issue. Lin Huiyin Liang Sicheng and his wife naturally advocated the preservation of the ancient city wall, and believed that the ancient city wall had extremely important historical research value; but Guo Moruo and others did not think so.
We must know that Guo Moruo is well versed in ancient social humanities, and out of his criticism of ancient feudal thought, he believes that the ancient city wall is a symbol of the feudal imperial system in the old era, which means that the old ideas and the old culture and the oppression of the people by the old classes should be broken in today's new era of liberation.
Secondly, Guo Moruo's faction also believes that due to the needs of urban planning and construction, the existence of the ancient city wall is somewhat "obstructive". First of all, in peacetime, these ancient city walls to defend against foreign enemies will have no place to play; moreover, the ancient city walls will hinder the planning and implementation of infrastructure such as traffic roads, and will also compress Beijing's construction space, which is really superfluous.
Of course, due to the limitations of the times and the urgent need of people to build a new era at that time, Guo Moruo's statement still touched many people. However, this decision made Lin Hui really sad because of Liang Sicheng and other "protectionists", in order to successfully save the ancient city wall of Beijing, they also gave some specific plans to prevent the disappearance of the ancient city wall of Beijing.
Protect the ancient city walls of Beijing
Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin and other ancient architects submitted a report plan of more than 20,000 words: "Proposal on the Administrative Center of the Chinese People's Government", which mentioned how to use the ancient city wall to transform it into a tourist attraction of the ascending Range Rover, and repaired and greened the moat, constantly emphasizing its historical and cultural value and architectural value. Not only that, Lin Huiyin and his wife also lobbied for them and did their best for the protection of cultural relics.
Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin
Unfortunately, due to the efforts made by Liang Sicheng and his wife, Lin Hui still failed to save the demolition and collapse of the ancient city wall. In the face of people's wanton destruction of historical relics, Lin Hui was impatient and sick, and his determination to protect historical relics and cultural relics was lamentable.
After that, the relevant departments and Guo Moruo's faction also decided to demolish the yongding gate and the Chaoyang gate of the city towers, in the face of people's wanton destruction of cultural relics and monuments, Lin Huiyin felt very sad, she still dragged the sick body, and did not hesitate to go forward to angrily rebuke the leaders of the relevant departments:
"The demolition of the ancient city wall for eight hundred years is equivalent to destroying the real antiques of history." If you insist on demolishing, sooner or later you will regret it in the future, and if you want to restore and rebuild, it is just a fake! ”
Lin Huiyin
Lin Huiyin's words and words show the tragic determination of Lin Huiyin, who has devoted his life to the protection of cultural relics and monuments. But I did not expect that Lin Huiyin became a proverb, many years later, when the economic level and production capacity were greatly improved, the vigorous development of the tertiary industry such as tourism, prompted the relevant departments in Beijing to begin to pay attention to the protection and restoration of historical monuments and cultural relics - "I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City" is a good example.
Restoration of artifacts
Historical archaeologists have hurriedly included the remaining Beijing Ancient City Tower in the scope of key cultural relics protection, and have carried out restoration and reconstruction of two surviving ancient city walls, one of which was built into the Ming City Wall Ruins Park, and the other of which was restored into Xiben. Unfortunately, in Beijing, which is now full of land, it is not an easy task to rebuild and expand cultural relics and sites; therefore, for the restoration of the ancient city wall, we can only stop here.
Today's Ming City Wall Ruins Park
Moreover, the restored and rebuilt ancient city wall is no longer the antique city wall of the past, nor does it have that unique sense of historical heaviness, which is indeed no different from the fakes lin Huiyin said. If it were not for the insistence on demolishing the ancient city wall of Beijing, today's Beijing, as an ancient city, the humanistic atmosphere will be even stronger. In the face of the vanishing ancient city wall of Beijing, we should also really pay attention to the protection of cultural relics and sites, after all, it is a rare and precious wealth left for us by predecessors.
Therefore, for the critical consciousness of Guo Moruo's faction for the demolition of the ancient city wall, we cannot completely resign ourselves to it, but we should make a choice. Similarly, for traditional culture, we must not deny it all, but we must take its essence and remove its dross, and establish cultural self-confidence, so that Chinese culture can achieve more progressive development.