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In ancient times, the burial place of the emperor was called the mausoleum, and the king of the clan was called the tomb. However, in the Jingjiang Wang Mausoleum, a national key cultural relics protection unit in Guilin, Guangxi, there is a sign of "Jingjiang Zhuang Jian Wang Mausoleum", which has been pointed out by scholars that there are problems such as "upgrading the tomb to a mausoleum" and the wrong writing of the plaque, which has aroused concern in society.
Jingjiang King Mausoleum is a group of tombs of many clan kings sealed in Jingjiang in the Ming Dynasty, which has always been called the tomb of the King of Jingjiang in ancient books, and the folk custom is to call it a mausoleum, so the Tomb of the King of Jingjiang has slowly become a proper noun. As far as the tomb of a certain king of the clan is concerned, the staff of the cultural protection unit said that it should be written "Wang Tomb", and the writing of "Wang Mausoleum" is for propaganda reasons. However, is this propaganda a bit self-deceptive? If it is to be consistent with the Jingjiang King's Mausoleum, is it necessary to move the accurate formulation closer to the direction of non-standardization? The relevant departments may wish to give authoritative answers, or provide reference for other cultural security units.
Regarding the dou plaque, a plaque in the tomb of the king reads "Qi'en Hall", which is the regulation of the imperial tomb, and the format and font are not standard, because "the character was written by the leaders and calligraphers who came to investigate at that time". In the words of the staff, they also knew it was wrong, but there was no way. It turns out that it is not that no one is aware of it, but that some things are grandly above the respect and protection of history and culture. Such a problem appears in the national cultural security unit, which will not only laugh generously, but also mislead many people, and will have a negative exemplary effect on the cultural security work.
Therefore, it is necessary to investigate deeply whether there is a shadow of the political achievement project behind the "elevation of the tomb as a mausoleum" and the "leadership inscription". Were the higher authorities slow to discover the problem, or did they turn a blind eye? Does the planning and review mechanism for the restoration of cultural relics need to be improved, and how can it be guaranteed? And, how can cultural security workers be treated with the respect they deserve, so that people do not have to be torn between "pragmatic" and "truth-seeking"?
Some people may question whether clinging to the original face of a stele and a plaque is not a fuss. For the development of tourism, a name change may be able to drive passenger flow, may not, but it is certain that the development and evolution of history and culture has a rigorous vein, if all the way wrong, the context is like the ship of Theseus that is replaced one by one by one, the real history is gradually annihilated, the solid truth becomes blurred and scattered, at that time, in the face of various repaired "four unlike" cultural relics and monuments, ambiguous titles and definitions, more and more outrageous stories and images, how to answer "who we are, where do we come from." What kind of road have we come from?"
This is not alarmist, the tomb of King Lujian in Xinxiang, Henan Province, has been inscribed "Tomb of King Lu" by the present, and the tomb of King Luhuang in Jining, Shandong Province, has built a new "Ming Lou" that should not exist... Many gardens and beds across the country are facing similar problems to the tomb of King Zhuang Jian, which requires the state to pay attention to and make a difference. The Mainland Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics requires that "the repair, maintenance and relocation of immovable cultural relics must abide by the principle of not changing the original state of cultural relics", and if cultural relics are not changed, in the final analysis, it is impossible to change the original state of history. It is necessary to know that to protect and inherit historical and cultural heritage well is responsible for history and the people.
【Author】 Wang Zipei
Southern Review