Xiong'an New Area, the "city of the future" that carries the "millennium plan and major national events", has now entered an important stage of undertaking the simultaneous promotion of Beijing's non-capital function relief and large-scale development and construction.
Behind the fiery construction scene, a "cultural building" is also being built simultaneously. Xiong'an New Area simultaneously carries out a comprehensive census of history and culture in the planning and construction, and carries out scientific protection.
The "Millennium Plan" and the Millennium Context
Since its establishment more than four years ago, Xiong'an New Area has implemented 177 key projects with a total investment of more than 600 billion yuan.
While the infrastructure is advancing rapidly, there is a race against time in villages, fields, and a team. Archaeologists continue to trace the roots, leaving important information for the continuation of xiong'an's historical context.
For a new city to stand, the key is to inherit the historical context and pay attention to the protection of historical relics and historical features. "Persisting in protecting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture and continuing the historical context" is one of the important contents of the planning and construction of Xiong'an New Area.
Archaeologists work at the archaeological excavation site at the Nanyang site in Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province, on March 19, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
The Nanyang Ruins of Nanyang Village, Rongcheng County, is the largest national key cultural protection unit in Xiong'an New Area. Soon after the establishment of the Xiong'an New Area, a high-level joint archaeological team organized by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage was ushered in here.
In May 2017, the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology (then the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics), together with the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Palace Museum, the National Museum and other units, established the Xiong'an New Area Joint Archaeological Team, upholding the awe of historical relics and opening up the cultural relics protection and archaeological work in Xiong'an New Area.
Walking into the Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology Workstation of Xiong'an New Area adjacent to the Nanyang Site, cultural relics workers are on the front line. A high-hanging map roughly outlines the archaeological map of the Nanyang site for more than four years.
The archaeological team carried out an archaeological survey of more than 40 square kilometers, and found the "Great Nanyang" site settlement group with the Nanyang site and the Hangmatai site as the core, and the cultural heritage date extended from the late Neolithic period to the Song and Jin dynasties, the cultural development continued for nearly three thousand years, the archaeological and cultural development was continuous, and the trajectory of the inheritance context was clear.
Archaeologists work at the archaeological excavation site at the Nanyang site in Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province (drone photo taken on March 19, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
"After archaeological excavations, it is basically determined that the main cultural remains of the Nanyang site should be two Warring States city sites, and the main cultural connotation is the Yan culture from the Eastern Zhou To the Han Dynasty." Lei Jianhong, the leader of the archaeological team and an associate researcher of the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, introduced that the discovery of the city site during the Warring States period and the pottery pieces of "Yi City" provided an important clue for the search for the southern city of the Yan Kingdom in the middle of the Warring States period.
Hebei has been known as "Yan Zhao" since ancient times. Historical records record that the State of Yan during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period moved its capital five times. Xiong'an archaeology, there is a major issue, that is, to further find, comb, excavate and confirm the source of Yan culture that injected the temperament of "generous and tragic songs" into Chinese civilization.
Archaeologists study artifacts unearthed at the Nanyang site in Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province, on March 19, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
Cultural relics carry splendid civilization, inherit history and culture, and maintain the national spirit, which is the precious heritage left to us by the ancestors. Zhang Wenrui, president of the Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that as one of the most densely populated areas of ancient cultural relics in Hebei, the number of cultural relics in Xiong'an New Area is large, deeply buried and the age span is large, and the early archaeological investigation is crucial.
The joint archaeological team worked in groups with townships as units and villages as the basic object of visits, conducted a systematic archaeological survey of the 1,770 square kilometers planned by Xiong'an New Area, and registered 263 cultural relics of various types. Completed the archaeological exploration and trial excavation of 50 ancient sites and tombs in the starting area, with an exploration area of 2.135 million square meters, which provided an important basis for the protection and utilization of cultural relics in the new area.
This is a building in the Rongdong area of Xiong'an New District (taken on August 12, 2021, drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
In addition to the deep historical accumulation, there is also a deep red brand. Walking into the Baiyangdian Yanling Team Memorial Hall, the exhibition boards, photos, and cultural relics tell the scenes of the people of Diandian District who are not afraid of sacrifice and fight with the enemy.
"The Yanling Team, the Divine Soldiers, come without a shadow, go without a trace." Thousands of reed ponds set up the battlefield, and the poles were raised to fight the devil's soldiers..." This folk song that records the heroic performance of the Yanling team during the War of Resistance Against Japan is still sung in the Baiyangdian area.
At the Xiong'an Digital Transportation Lab, Ren Dakai remotely controls driverless cars (march 26, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Haoyuan
Xiong'an New District has clearly defined the goal of starting the district in 2022. According to the plan, by the end of 2022, the "four beams and eight pillars" of the start-up area will be completed, the skeleton of the traffic road network will be formed, the fast track to Beijing will be opened, and the public service facilities and ecological landscape system such as education, culture, and medical care will be basically formed. Cultural relics have become more vivid and clear through archaeology, making this "city of the future" reflect the millennium context. In the future, a historical museum with Xiong'an characteristics will vividly tell the story of the millennium here.
"The light of wisdom" and beautiful nostalgia
The construction office is lined with tower cranes, vehicles are roaring, and the roads at the completion are spacious, the road surface is clean, and the greenery is patchy... In Xiong'an, in addition to being able to see this "largest construction site in the country", the "Xiong'an on the Cloud" digital intelligent city that people can't see is also in progress. However, behind everyone's lack of visibility, every building built in the new district will generate a digital building on the digital Xiong'an platform. In reality, even if you change a street lamp, you can show it. Each building is calculated, and the incoming materials are assembled directly.
While building a city of wisdom, Xiong'an has not forgotten to keep its past.
The "Jin Yupu Family Old House" and old jujube trees in Nanhezhao Village remain in the country park of Xiong'an New District (taken on October 30, 2021). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Shi Heyu)
Early in the morning, in front of the Xiong'an New District Country Park "Pengshan Residence" - "Jinyupu Family Old House", it was full of people who came here to punch in the morning exercise, everyone talked and laughed, and the atmosphere was lively.
The "Jinyupu Family Old House" in Nanhezhao Village has a history of about 120 years and is one of the "nostalgia protection points" in Xiong'an New Area. The quaint temperament of the green bricks and gray tiles of the building is in contrast with the green, intelligent and modern new community in the Rongdong area not far away.
"Nostalgia is that you will miss it when you leave, and it is a vernacular expression of historical and cultural heritage." Li Dan, head of the culture and tourism team of the Xiong'an New District Public Service Bureau, said that the new area has entered the stage of large-scale construction, and for the rural people, nostalgia is a real existence that is close at hand.
Liu Guangyu, a native of Majiazhai Village, Anxin County, Xiong'an New District, Hebei Province, makes a wooden boat model on July 25, 2019. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xing Guangli
In 2018, Xiong'an New District set up a special action leading group and work class for "Remembering Homesickness", innovatively put forward the concept of "nostalgia cultural heritage" protection, and carried out a comprehensive census.
After in-depth investigation, a number of nostalgic relics that carry the collective memory of the people in the new area were registered and archived. According to statistics, at present, the total number of material nostalgia protection points registered in the Xiong Safety Domain is more than 2,600.
Xin Gongshun, head of the nostalgia team of the Xiong'an New District Public Service Bureau, said that during the construction of the country park, there was a phenomenon of conflict between the location of the project construction and the "Jinyupu family old house", and they adopted a living protection policy to incorporate the reconstruction of the original site of the old house into the planning and design of the project area of the Xingtai Exhibition Park in the country park, based on the original architectural pattern and building materials, integrating local elements, and forming a unique architectural style with Xiong'an regional characteristics.
On the west side of the country park, the ancestral hall of the Ming Dynasty righteous soldier Yang Jisheng was protected. Yang Sihe, the fourteenth grandson of Yang Jisheng and a villager in Beihezhao Village, Rongcheng County, said that the ancestor Yang Jisheng was listed as one of the "Three Sages of Rongcheng", and he has been worshipping since he was a child, and now that the village is gone, the villagers are waiting to move back to a new home, but the descendants of the Yang family can still come to worship regularly.
This is a village inside Baiyangdian (drone photo taken on August 14, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
During the construction of the E group in Rongdong Area, 15 centuries-old trees were listed in the "Nostalgia Tree" directory. China Railway Real Estate Xiong'an Company set up a professional team to locate tree by tree, refine coordinates, one tree and one policy, and retain the original site of 5 "nostalgia trees" located in front of the community service center, and transplant another 10 trees to the folk park.
The upcoming Rongdong E Group Community Service Center includes four functional areas, including fitness center, cultural center, service center, and pension center, which is the place where the masses in the future resettlement area gather activities. "When you find this old tree, you find a home, you find childhood memories." Wen Zhanmin, a villager in Nanwenying, Rongcheng County, said that when his village was demolished in 2019, the old locust tree of his family was retained at the original site.
Zhang Shuanglong, deputy director of the Public Service Bureau of Xiong'an New District, said that in the construction of Xiong'an New Area, the principle generally followed is that ancient trees are not moved, ancient buildings are not demolished, ancient arches are not moved, and ancient trees and old objects that really need to be moved must also find suitable places to let the new city have old places and let the people remember to live in homesickness. Such protection is not only a long-term plan for the sustainable development of the city, but also a necessary move to take the people as the center.
Rapid urbanization and scientific conservation
In the process of rapid urbanization, how to strengthen the protection and utilization of tangible cultural heritage and stimulate the innovative vitality of intangible cultural heritage is a proposition of the times that needs to be answered.
Interviewed in Xiong'an New District, the reporter learned a term called "protective demolition of nostalgic heritage components", that is, the nostalgic heritage that does not have the overall preservation value, such as old brick carvings, bluestone slabs, old bricks, etc., will be dismantled and preserved by the professional demolition team for future construction.
Fishing boats, fishing nets, fishing forks... In anxin County nostalgic old object warehouse, not only the traditional fishing gear and agricultural tools with unique Baiyangdian characteristics are stored, but also a large number of carved old-fashioned wooden doors and windows, pillar top stones, bluestone slabs and other building building components are preserved.
Reeds swinging in Baiyangdian (drone photo taken on November 5, 2020). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
Liu Hao, director of the Anxin County Cultural Protection Institute, is busy recording a batch of newly entered building green bricks. Liu Hao said that in the future, the appropriate area can be selected to make a reasonable reproduction display of relevant nostalgic memories, so that tradition and modernity coexist. Every brick and tile has a detailed record of past and present lives, and they will surely "live" in the future.
Baiyangdian is known as "one lake water, one lake silver; one inch of reeds, one inch of gold". The inhabitants who have lived here for generations have used reeds to make paper, weave mats, weave baskets, draw curtains and make reed crafts.
Yang Bingjun, the inheritor of the reed painting technique of intangible cultural heritage in Hebei Province, is a native of Anxin County and has learned the reed weaving technique from his mother since he was a child. In Yang Bingjun's view, the establishment of Xiong'an New District has brought unprecedented opportunities for reed painting. His works reflecting the construction site and landmark buildings of Xiong'an New Area have won a good reputation in the market and also led to the employment of surrounding villagers.
"I want to develop in conservation, protect in development. Through reed painting, the style of Xiong'an will be spread to all over the world, so that the traditional culture of Xiong'an will become a link and a window for the world to understand Xiong'an. Yang Bingjun said.
In the midst of large-scale relocations, more and more villages have become urban communities. In the face of this situation, Xiong'an New Area is using digital means to create a "cloud space", using the power of science and technology to guard the ancient civilization, and using the flame of culture to illuminate the "city of the future". Xiong'an New Area set up a special team to use video, photos, VR and other ways to record the old trees, old houses, people's lives in Xiong'an New Area, etc., and to establish a "digital nostalgia" cultural platform, the people will be able to intuitively feel the past and present life of their own countryside through the network in the future.
Yang Bingjun, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage reed painting technique in Hebei Province, makes a reed painting (taken on January 8, 2019). Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Wang Jingzhuo)
"Dialects are vernacular and another cultural symbol." Song Shaojun, deputy dean of the Yanzhao Institute for Advanced Study of Culture of Hebei University, introduced that they have completed the symbolic digitization of dialect pronunciation in Xiong'an Three Counties, and are focusing on building a smart geographical and cultural database in the naming fields of communities, communities, roads and other naming areas in Xiong'an New District, and strive to build a Xiong'an cultural map.
At present, the new district is preparing to build two museums to preserve the memories of farming, fishing and hunting, and is also planning the protection and inheritance project of traditional villages in water towns to protect and inherit the original village style and cultural landscape of the original water towns.
The agile Yodojo light boat, the long-lasting ancient music, the exquisite reed paintings... In the future, in Xiong'an New Area, people will be in the financial island, headquarters area, innovation workshop and other characteristic industries and innovation areas, but turn the corner, you can also find residential houses, ancient trees...
Text reporters: Li Fengshuang, Zhang Tao, Gao Bo, Li Jiwei
Video reporters: Yue Wenting, Wei Huibo (reporter), Zhang Wenze (reporter)
Hand-drawn: Translated by Ma Xin, the beginning of Ren
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Source: Xinhua News Agency