The northern end of Qianmen Pedestrian Street will create a demonstration area for the integration of culture and tourism

Original title: The northern end of Qianmen Pedestrian Street will create a demonstration area for the integration of culture and tourism

Yesterday, Guan Zhanxiu, director of the Beijing Central Axis Heritage Protection Center and director of the Beijing World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Center, was a guest in the live broadcast room of the 2022 Beijing News Center "City of The Two Olympics and The Classics", telling the audience about the history of the "axis of urban order" of the central axis and the dragon's eye on the axis - Zhengyangmen. Guan Zhanxiu revealed that in the future, the opening of the Arrow Tower will be used as an opportunity to create a high-end cultural tourism integration demonstration area with ancient capital characteristics at the northern end of Qianmen Pedestrian Street, and make organic attempts to revitalize the heritage value of the central axis, revitalize the Qianmen business circle, and drive the development of cultural tourism projects in the region.

The central axis of Beijing is a magnificent movement interpreted by architecture. Its northern end is the Bell and Drum Tower, and to the south it passes through Wanning Bridge, Jingshan, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Zhengyang Gate, and to Yongdingmen, with a length of about 7.8 kilometers, which is the most typical urban axis in China and the longest and most complete urban axis in the world. It carries rich historical and cultural connotations, gathers the essence of Beijing's urban architecture, contains the profound philosophical ideas of the Chinese nation, and highlights the cultural heritage and cultural self-confidence of the capital of a big country.

Guan Zhanxiu introduced that according to the way of thinking of eastern civilization, the central axis of Beijing should be a concept of a whole. If the central axis is regarded as a cultural dragon that is interlocked and echoes from end to end, the arrow tower from Yongding Gate to Zhengyang Gate is the dragon head part. Among them, the flyover and the Dashilar still retain many historical relics of commodity exchanges and mass culture in those years, reflecting the people's order on the central axis with the theme of people's culture. The Zhengyang Gate Arrow Tower is exactly in the position of the dragon's eye, which has the effect of "painting the dragon's eye" and is known as the "dragon's eye land" on the central axis. Guan Zhanxiu revealed that in the future, the opening of the Arrow Tower will be used as an opportunity to create a high-end cultural tourism integration demonstration area with ancient capital characteristics at the northern end of Qianmen Pedestrian Street, and make organic attempts to revitalize the heritage value of the central axis, revitalize the Qianmen business circle, and drive the development of cultural tourism projects in the region.

In the early years, the Beijing division had nine altars and eight temples, the altar temple elements accounted for nearly half of the central axis, the altar temple culture in the central axis reflected the ancient people's concept of respecting heaven and the ancestors, and the central axis largely reflected the altar temple culture and the lilly civilization.

(Beijing Youth Daily)