He is a senior student at Tsinghua University, and was a former dean of the Palace Museum, with an official to the rank of deputy minister
It is one of the largest and most completely preserved wooden structures in the world, and it is also the culmination of China's five-thousand-year splendid civilization. Therefore, the position of president of the Palace Museum has always been the focus of people's attention. Shan Jixiang, former director of the Palace Museum, is a "cultural giant" who has attracted much attention. How did Shan Jixiang become the president of the Palace Museum? What kind of unknown life experiences do you have?
Shan Jixiang was born in July 1954 in Jiangning, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Nanjing has always been a place where literati and inkers gather, and there is no need to say much about the outstanding spirits. Cao Xueqin, Feng Yong, Anonymous, Yu Guangzhong, all from Nanjing. Under the influence of the unique cultural atmosphere, Shan Jixiang has developed a unique cultural temperament. It is worth mentioning that Shan Jixiang is a high-achieving student at Tsinghua University, majoring in urban planning, and studied under Wu Liangyong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Shan Jixiang's work history is inseparable from two major systems, one is architecture, the other is cultural relics. Since joining the work, Shan Jixiang has frequently changed back and forth in the building system and the cultural relics system. In January 2001, Shan Jixiang became the director of the office of the Capital Planning and Construction Commission, and less than two years later, he became the director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage. In January 2012, Shan Jixiang was officially appointed as the director of the Palace Museum, a member of the party group of the Ministry of Culture, and later a member of the party group of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, ranking at the deputy ministerial level.
After Shan Jixiang became the director of the Palace Museum, the first thing he did was to find out the family background. Here you can use a string of data to reflect Shan Jixiang's love for the Forbidden City. Shan Jixiang used it
5 months
Time, step through
More than 20 pairs
Cloth shoes were the first to count the rooms of the Forbidden City. According to Shan Jixiang's statistics, the Forbidden City totaled
9371 seats
Ancient building, owned
1807558 pieces
cultural relic. It can be seen that Shan Jixiang is a very pragmatic person. With the efforts of Shan Jixiang, the Forbidden City has once again been revitalized, and even Shan Jixiang himself has become the "Dean of Internet Celebrities".
There is a passage on the Internet that can truly show Shan Jixiang's unique personality charm. Whenever a superior leader comes to inspect, Shan Jixiang always lets the leader see the worst side of the Forbidden City, so as to obtain the support of the superior leader and awaken the leader's sense of responsibility. Not only that, shan Jixiang always took the knife himself in the process of drastic reform. To take the simplest example, Shan Jixiang once demanded that the Forbidden City should not have non-Forbidden City elements, and proposed that all units should be far away from the Forbidden City. Shan Jixiang's office took the lead in moving out of the Forbidden City and made a good start.
Shan Jixiang created a new situation in the protection of cultural relics in the Forbidden City, and the acclaimed documentary "I Repair Cultural Relics in the Forbidden City" was hosted by him. During Shan Jixiang's tenure as president of the Forbidden City, the most common sentence was:
Give the magnificent Forbidden City its entirety to the next six hundred years.
In April 2019, Shan Jixiang stepped down as the director of the Palace Museum. So, what is the current situation of Shan Jixiang?
Shan Jixiang has also retired and is still busy with cultural relics protection. After he stepped down as the director of the Palace Museum, he became the director of the Palace Museum's Palace Academy. It is reported that the Palace Academy is the first "college" established in The mode of museum-run schools in China, mainly to cultivate professional talents for the Forbidden City, while benefiting domestic counterparts, highlighting the two characteristics of public education and social services of museums. Shan Jixiang is engaged in this work, but also in a new position to exert residual heat.
In addition, Shan Jixiang also participated in the relevant activities of cultural relics protection, put forward new concepts to make cultural relics more dignified, and shared the successful experience of cultural relics protection. Shan Jixiang has been dealing with cultural relics for half a lifetime, and after retirement, he still runs around in the protection of cultural relics, which is indeed worthy of our admiration, and it is also a big example for us to learn, and it is also the pride of the Palace Museum.