Every country has its own iconic buildings, and when it comes to China's landmarks, most people must first think of the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Today, whether it is the people of the mainland or foreign tourists, the Forbidden City is the first choice for any first-time tourist to Beijing.
But do you know, this witness hundreds of years of history, by people at home and abroad as one of the world's greatest buildings of the famous historical building has suffered from demolition, reconstruction crisis, fortunately a person telegraph to resolve, we can see today's Forbidden City, otherwise the Forbidden City may only be like countless destroyed historical monuments in the book to be understood by everyone.
Due to absurd reasons, he was devastated, but fortunately one person helped him to survive the disaster
What caused the Forbidden City to be robbed? Speaking of reasons, it is actually a bit speechless, because the government of the Republic of China period felt that the meeting place was not open enough and seemed old and backward, in order to expand the area of the conference room, it wanted to demolish the ancient buildings in the Forbidden City, and then vacate the place to build more fashionable modern buildings.
However, although we all find such an idea a bit strange today, perhaps in the eyes of many people at that time, the Forbidden City symbolized the old feudalism, the new modern architecture symbolized the new thought, and the new generation of the old was the expression of the replacement of feudal thought with the new idea. Thinking about it this way, it seems that people will do this at that time.
However, even if you can understand the thoughts of some people at that time, I believe that everyone still does not agree with this kind of intention to destroy the Forbidden City. After all, as one of the most representative and well-preserved ancient buildings in the mainland, the Forbidden City has important value that cannot be ignored both for the history of China itself and for the history of the world.
Fortunately, at that time, there were still people who agreed with us now, and the Forbidden City was not demolished in this crisis in the end, thanks to a telegram from someone, who was the famous warlord Wu Peifu during the Republic of China.
Fortunately, this telegram was sent by Wu Peifu, and the telegram could be sent directly to the leaders of the government at that time because of the important position of its sender. At the same time, Wu Peifu's telegram was also reported by various media, which successfully attracted widespread attention from the government and the public.
Wu Peifu believes that all countries in the world have a landmark building, but those buildings in other countries are not as good as our Forbidden City. The Forbidden City is at the top level of the world in terms of historical value and architectural style, which is incomparable to other buildings, and if the Forbidden City is damaged hastily, it will not only cause the loss of national and even world history and culture, but also very likely to damage China's own face.
Even if the face of the country is disregarded, no one is allowed to destroy this historic building for such lame reasons. In addition, Wu Peifu also pointed out that some people want to take this opportunity to occupy the cultural relics and property in the Forbidden City for themselves.
Wu Peifu's words won a lot of voices of approval, and even the Soviet Union heard about this and expressed support for Wu Peifu's views, and also publicly expressed appreciation and praise for the Forbidden City. After deliberating for a long time, the Government of the Republic of China finally decided to leave the Forbidden City and protect it, and the farce of demolishing the Forbidden City ended here.
The Forbidden City was once again in crisis and was preserved for a strange reason
In fact, after the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City not only suffered this disaster, but also encountered a major crisis after the founding of New China. This crisis was almost prevented by the opposition of countless architectural scholars, historians and the public, and finally some people reluctantly used a strange reason to let the Forbidden City barely survive.
After the founding of New China, many people had a certain resistance to the buildings of the feudal period, and many precious ancient buildings were brutally attacked, including the Forbidden City.
In August 1952, the famous architect Liang Sicheng and his wife knelt in front of the city wall with illness and pleaded and scolded, but did not stop the progress of the demolition team, and the left gate and the right gate of Chang'an on the east and west sides of Tiananmen Were soon demolished. Later, the leaders proposed to convert old buildings in Beijing, Kaifeng and other places into new houses, so some people seized the opportunity to quickly carry out plans to renovate the Forbidden City.
Of course, this move quickly caused dissatisfaction and criticism among scholars, who believed that the forbidden city was of extraordinary significance to China and even the world, and that the demolition of the forbidden city would not only cause huge losses to the academic community, but also affect China's international image.
The incident also alarmed foreign academic circles, and many foreign scholars also expressed their opposing views on the demolition of the Forbidden City. However, the leaders have not changed the idea and plan of demolishing the Forbidden City, until someone in desperation proposed that the Forbidden City is to represent the feudal backwardness, leaving the feudal and backward Forbidden City can play an educational role for the people, which can be regarded as the use of the ancient for the present.
Hearing this reason, the leaders felt that it was reasonable and stopped the plan to transform the Forbidden City, which really made people cry and laugh. But fortunately, people came up with this reason, otherwise China would have been like many scholars at the time said: even another Beijing could not make up for it.
The value of historical heritage is immeasurable and should be carefully protected
In the past many years, we have not taken protective measures for historical heritage because our understanding of history and culture is not clear enough, resulting in the loss of many cultural properties of immeasurable value to the country, and the previous two crises of demolition and reform of the Forbidden City are ultimately due to backward concepts.
Nowadays, with the development of science and technology and the renewal of people's concepts, everyone realizes the importance of history and culture for a country, and begins to continuously enhance the protection of cultural heritage, and strives to recover those cultural relics that have been lost abroad due to war and other reasons.
In addition, we are also constantly studying how to repair and reorganize many historical buildings that have been destroyed, but it is difficult to truly restore their original appearance, it is conceivable that if the Forbidden City could not be preserved, I am afraid that we are really studying how to rebuild a Forbidden City.
The Forbidden City is the crystallization of people's wisdom in ancient times, representing the power of the ancients beyond our imagination, and also representing the great achievements of Chinese culture and art. The Forbidden City that we see today has been successfully passed down to the present day after several generations of protection and restoration, and has such a relatively intact appearance as it is now.
In the future, the Forbidden City and other historical and cultural heritage will need our continuous and meticulous care to preserve and pass it on. This is our historical heritage, which requires our attention and protection.