Cover news reporter Liu Kexin
Each heritage park is a cultural symbol and historical memory of a place, leading people back to the source, find the root, and find the soul. As the most intuitive and representative category of cultural heritage, sites and monuments are not only important relics of the continuous labor of ancient ancestors to create and transform nature, but also contain rich historical information.
Aerial photo of Donghuamen site (Photo courtesy of event organizer)
On January 15th, the "Little Year" in the south arrived, and Donghuamen welcomed a group of lovely "tourists". 20 groups of parent-child families dressed in Hanfu came to Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park to experience the visit. This is the second opening of Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park and the first event in 2023.
Listen to the stories of artifacts that approach a thousand years of history
Zhang Xuefen, researcher of Chengdu Institute of Archaeology, was invited to tell everyone about the history and humanities of the Donghuamen archaeological site. Following the teacher's steps, the children learned about wells, roads, rivers, buildings, ditches and other relics found in archaeology, and saw the conception, germination and growth of civilization and culture in this land. Meet Chengdu more than 2,300 years ago in Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park and touch the thousands of years of history of Donghuamen.
Zhang Xuefen is introducing the unearthed cultural relics to the children
"Porcelain has been buried underground for a long time, and when it was unearthed, it showed varying degrees of fragmentation, deterioration, and mixed fragments, but the porcelain we see now is complete, because after the excavation, archaeological researchers have to carry out meticulous restoration work." Teacher Zhang Xuefen took the porcelain unearthed at the Donghuamen site as an example and briefly introduced the restoration process of porcelain, pottery and other cultural relics.
Low temperature green glaze plate Five generations (Photo courtesy of event organizer)
"We all say 'Park City under the Snowy Mountains, Happy Chengdu in the Fireworks', and we also hope that the Donghuamen Ruins project can really get close to the lives of the masses, which can not only see the historical sites, but also be full of life aesthetics." In the future, we will plan more meaningful and interesting activities, such as camping, study, market, curation, etc. You can take a leisurely stroll while drinking coffee and look back at Chengdu's thousand-year-old civilization. Zhong Wanfang, spokesperson for the Chinese New Year celebration activity in Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park, said.
"I'll take a look, maybe I'll find artifacts!" And maybe there's another tile? "The activity is not over yet, and the children's hearts have planted a yearning for archaeology.
Experience the archaeological "blind box" and check in traditional folklore
In order to let the children experience the fun of "excavating cultural relics", a lot of blind box "archaeological props" were also prepared on site for children to immerse themselves in the real cultural relics exploration process. Children can judge the era characteristics of this type of treasure by "digging out" the material, craftsmanship, shape and other aspects of the utensils, and understand what the treasures they have dug up with their own hands and the historical stories behind them. "I'm a three-star bronze mask here!" "I have a vase over here!" The children shared their achievements with each other.
A hundred miles of different winds, thousands of miles of different customs. January 15th coincides with the "Little Year" in the south, in order to respond to the situation, the event also designed a session of "Looking Back at the Millennium of Jincheng and Exploring the Taste of Chengdu in History", so that everyone can understand the taste of Shudu in history.
Children are learning about the ingredients for making pepper wine
In class, the teacher explained the history of "pepper wine" to the children. Pepper is peppercorn, cypress is cypress leaves. Drinking pepper and cypress wine is a Chinese folk custom, and it is used on the first day of the first lunar month to worship ancestors or to parents to celebrate birthday and greetings. The custom of drinking pepper wine during the Spring Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and Cui Yin's "Four Minyue Order" of the Eastern Han Dynasty contained: "The day of the first moon... The son, wife, grandson, and great-great-grandson each served pepper wine to their parents, and they were prosperous and happy. The Southern Song poet Lu You also described in "Bingyin Yuan Day": "In the joy of the family pepper wine, the household peach charm is in the color." ”
Chengdu sugar painting rabbit
Stove candy was also prepared for the children. Stove sugar is a kind of maltose, and eating stove sugar is also one of the folk customs of the young year. There are two theories for the reason for offering stove sugar to the stove, one is to stick to the mouth of the stove master and prevent him from saying bad things in front of the Jade Emperor; One said that he hoped that he had eaten sweets and had more good words in front of the Jade Emperor. At the same time, sugar painting craftsmen made sugar paintings for the children on the spot, so that the children could also experience the charm of the national intangible cultural heritage project sugar sculpture (Chengdu sugar painting).
The character "Fu" written by children
In addition, the children also experienced customs such as "New Year greeting stickers", "writing spring couplings" and "making lanterns".
At the heart of cultural relics is conservation, inheritance and innovation. Only when people enter the heritage park and integrate cultural relics and history into their lives through display, introduction and participation, can more citizens understand the meaning and value of this heritage. The reporter learned that the Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park has completed the renovation of the outer façade of the basin, the roof, the glorious project and the phased work of cultural relics protection. Before the Chengdu Universiade, the Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park will connect the inner and outer fields, and the outfield sites will be fully completed and opened, fully presenting historical relics such as the Maha Pond from the fifth to the second Song Dynasty of the Sui and Tang dynasties, the palace of the Shu King of the Ming Dynasty, the architecture of the Fifth Dynasty of the Tang Dynasty, and the pebble paved roads of the Song Dynasty. At that time, the public can walk into the Donghuamen Archaeological Site Park, touch the pulse of Chengdu culture, and witness the 2,300-year-old Fanghua.