Qin Gang, executive vice president of ICR and senior researcher of the Institute of International Information of the State Information Center
The integration of culture and tourism is rooted in history and the source is in the context. The city vein is the context. The Chinese Forbidden City Society studies not only royal architecture, architectural relics, and court residences, but also the 600-year beijing city vein: the history of the Forbidden City, that is, the history of Beijing.
Photo by Qin Gang
Forbidden City Studies is part of the "Forbidden City", but it is not limited to the "Forbidden City". The Forbidden City is a city, and the significance of forbidden city science lies in the "city", in the history and future of the city.
Outside the Donghua Gate of the Forbidden City, the 30-year-old Forbidden City Society (initiated in 1990 and established in 1995) is the 600-year-old vein of the Forbidden City.
Fu Xinian, Luo Zhewen and other wenbo and Mr. Gu Jianlao are the founding elders, but the "Forbidden City Study" has more and more young cross-border scholars, "city-building", "camp city", city builders, and "city vein" colleagues to join. The younger generation should take the academic spirit and path of the Construction Society as the precursor to inherit and promote the Forbidden City Studies.
There are 8,700 rooms in the Forbidden City, and the "handover" is 600 years, and it has been 616 years since its construction.
It is an old and young city. On the side of the Forbidden City, the turtle looked east, and the 528-meter "Zun Shou" pierced the skyline of Beijing City.