After the snow, the ancient city of Pingyao is bright and bright in the vicissitudes of life, and the simplicity contains vitality.
On January 27, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected and investigated in Jinzhong City and came to the ancient city of Pingyao. He pointed out that it is necessary to comprehensively protect the historical and cultural heritage, coordinate the development of tourism, the management of special characteristics, and the protection of ancient cities, and build a solid bottom line for the safety of cultural relics; it is necessary to strengthen cultural self-confidence, deeply excavate the cultural connotation of Jin Shang, better carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and better serve the economic and social development and the people's high-quality life.
In the past two years, Jinzhong City and Pingyao County have kept in mind the leader's entrustment and made every effort to promote the construction of "the best place for heritage protection, an international tourist destination, a window place for Jin merchant culture, and a place for the display of characteristic products", and handed over a new answer sheet in the protection and inheritance.
Build a solid bottom line for the safety of cultural relics and protect historical and cultural heritage
Shao Shuai, who has grown into a professional technician of traditional craftsmen in ancient architecture, has lived under the city wall of the ancient city of Pingyao since he was a child.
"My first project when I joined the team was to repair the city walls. Shao Shuai, who graduated from Sichuan Normal University with a major in environmental art and design, joined Shanxi Chaojie Ancient Construction Engineering Co., Ltd. in 2012.
The ancient city wall is the symbol of the ancient city of Pingyao, which was built in the period of King Xuan of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was expanded on a large scale in three years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, and is an important physical specimen for the study of the ancient city wall defense system in the mainland.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that historical and cultural heritage carries the genes and blood of the Chinese nation, not only to our generation, but also to future generations. We must revere history, culture, and ecology, comprehensively protect historical and cultural heritage, coordinate tourism development, characteristic management, and ancient city protection, build a solid bottom line for the safety of cultural relics, and protect the precious wealth left to us by our predecessors.
At the beginning of October 2021, affected by continuous heavy rainfall, 15 female walls of the inner wall of the Pingyao city wall collapsed, 36 inner walls of the rammed earth slipped, and 5 city walls appeared serious cracks. In this emergency repair construction, Shao Shuai and his team followed the method of building walls with the roots to make the ancient city wall "repair as old" as possible.
The protection of cultural relics requires traditional crafts as well as scientific and technological means.
Today, the Pingyao Ancient City World Cultural Heritage Monitoring and Early Warning System Platform has entered the operation stage. Huo Bin, vice president of the Pingyao County One City and Two Temples Research Institute, said: "We have installed front-end monitoring equipment at four heritage element points, focusing on monitoring cracks and tilt conditions, real-time data collection and information recording, and realizing the protection and management of cultural relics through systematic analysis, transmission and response." With the completion of the construction of the heritage monitoring and early warning system, the monitoring of nearly 30 heritage sites in the ancient city will be realized in the future. ”
Lei Yaxian, director of the Pingyao County Institute of Cultural Relics, said that Pingyao County has invested 90 million yuan to comprehensively strengthen the protection of 143 cultural preservation units. It has completed 20 national security digital protection projects, restored and opened the Pingyao Wu Temple, which had been abandoned for nearly 100 years, and reproduced the traditional structure of the ancient city of "left culture and right martial arts".
Inside the ancient city, the renovation of an "underground city" is also underway. The main body of the underground comprehensive pipe gallery construction project of the ancient city, which lasted 3 years and invested 1.39 billion yuan, was completed, and the six types of underground pipe networks of electricity, communications, rainwater, sewage, gas and fire protection in the ancient city were comprehensively upgraded and transformed.
"After the completion of the project, it will completely solve the problems of rain and sewage diversion, waterlogging and insufficient power load that have plagued the ancient city for many years, and it is a 'millennium project' to protect the ancient city and improve people's livelihood. Zhang Lei, head of the technical department of Shanxi Jiantou Ancient City Renovation Project Management Co., Ltd., said.
At the same time, on the basis of the protection and repair of the traditional houses with private property rights in the ancient city, Pingyao County has launched a special rectification action of "sky, façade and street" in the ancient city with a total investment of 980 million yuan to retain the antique and original traditional ancient city style. The roads around the ancient city have been widened and renovated to completely solve the problems of difficult rainwater drainage and traffic congestion in the urban area; four pedestrian bridges have been built in the main tourist corridors to clear the urban congestion points; the river has been dredged and stored to build a provincial-level wetland park......
With a history of more than 2,800 years, the ancient city of Pingyao is blooming with timeless cultural brilliance!
Promote the integration of culture and tourism to create an international tourist destination
The Year of the Dragon is approaching, and the red lanterns on the streets of the ancient city set off the rich atmosphere of the "Pingyao Chinese Year", and domestic and foreign tourists come on bluestone slabs......
The ancient city of Pingyao is an outstanding example of a Han Chinese city in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is known as a living sample of ancient Chinese cities. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997. The four main streets, eight small streets, and seventy-two small lanes of the ancient city are intertwined with longitude and latitude, and the main and secondary are distinct. More than 300 cultural relics and nearly 3,800 ancient dwellings are scattered among them, reflecting each other and meeting people through time.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that it is necessary to strengthen cultural self-confidence, dig deep into the cultural connotation of Jinshang, better promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, and better serve economic and social development and people's high-quality life.
Keeping in mind the leader's entrustment and relying on the golden signboard of the world cultural heritage of the ancient city of Pingyao, Pingyao County unremittingly follows the integrated development path of government-led, market-oriented operation and enterprise management, and persistently builds a cultural tourism festival brand. In 2023, the 23rd Pingyao International Photography Festival will highlight the three characteristics of internationalization, institutionalization and marketization, and 97% of the 57 films screened at the 7th Pingyao International Film Festival will be premiered nationwide. "See Pingyao Again" has endured for ten years, attracting more than 5.1 million tourists to watch, 913 performances last year, with an income of 157 million yuan, a record high, and successfully selected 20 national immersive cultural tourism new formats, 40 tourism and performing arts boutique lists, all of which are the only ones in the province.
Mature brands are making great progress, and new cultural tourism formats are booming. According to Liu Wenlin, deputy director of the Pingyao County Culture and Tourism Bureau, the Huanzhen Pingyao Science and Technology Art Museum, which was transformed from the old industrial plant of the former cotton weaving factory in the ancient city, has added more vitality to the ancient city of Pingyao with the theme of "digital technology + cultural heritage". In August 2023, the project was identified by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as the first batch of new spaces for national smart tourism immersive experience. The Hanfu Experience Hall, which will be built in 2022, has driven the development of more than 200 travel photography in the county......
At the same time, the second phase of Pingyao County tourism practitioners English speaking training course is ongoing, 200 scenic spot docents and hotel practitioners listen carefully to practice. This is a specific measure for Pingyao County to empower the construction of an international tourist destination with high-quality development.
In 2023, the ancient city of Pingyao will receive 9.09 million tourists throughout the year, with a ticket income of 120 million yuan. For 4 consecutive years, it has been ranked in the top 10 of the "Top 100 National 5A-level Scenic Spot Brands".
Innovate in inheritance and let special products go to the world
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to be an excellent inheritor of traditional culture, protect cultural treasures such as push-light lacquerware, and carry forward the traditional cultural industry with national characteristics and promote it to the world.
Keep in mind the entrustment, make every effort to do a good job in the inheritance of excellent traditional culture, and make the traditional cultural industry bigger and stronger. In September 2022, Pingyao beef and Tuiguang lacquerware "Intangible Cultural Heritage Double Treasure" were successfully selected as Shanxi Provincial Key Professional Towns with "One Town, Two Products".
In 2006, Pingyao Tuiguang lacquerware decoration skills were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, and on October 1, 2023, the "Regulations on the Protection of Pingyao Tuiguang Lacquerware Decoration Skills" came into force, fully escorting the inheritance and development of intangible cultural heritage.
"Focusing on the Pingyao push-light lacquerware industry to go abroad and go to the world, Pingyao County adheres to the 'four-wheel drive' of leading the way, master-led, characteristic management, and diversified development, and strives to create national gifts, cast high-quality products, and strive to create cultural and creative products, and enhance the chain function in an all-round way, and the annual sales of Pingyao push-light lacquerware will also reach 150 million yuan in 2023. Yang Huaiyuan, director of the Pingyao County Urban Collective Industry Association, said that at present, the Pingyao County National Gift Design and Development Research and Development Team has designed 62 pieces (sets) of products to go abroad in the form of national gifts.
Pingyao beef has been reborn through the development of leading enterprises and industrialization.
"A piece of meat, a knife, a pinch of salt, a tank, and a pot are the 'five ones' principle of Pingyao beef processing, without adding pigments and additional condiments, you can achieve a fragrant and delicious taste. Wang Tianming, who was busy in the production workshop, said.
Wang Tianming is the sixth-generation inheritor of the traditional beef processing skills of the national intangible cultural heritage project, and the director of the cooking workshop of Shanxi Pingyao Beef Group Co., Ltd. His original salt injection method and constant curing method have improved the taste and quality of beef. Ancient intangible cultural heritage skills are developed in inheritance and inherited in development. Now, Wang Tianming has accepted apprentices, and the traditional processing skills of Pingyao beef have a seventh-generation inheritor.
In the Pingyao Economic and Technological Development Zone, the Pingyao Beef Cultural Industrial Park, which covers an area of 600 acres and has a total investment of 2 billion yuan, has also begun to take shape. According to the relevant person in charge, the industrial park will integrate cultural tourism, production and sales, covering the whole cycle and all links of Pingyao beef production such as R&D, production, logistics and inspection. After the full completion, all beef processing enterprises in Pingyao County will enter the park, unified management, unified standards and unified quality, greatly improve the overall quality and management level of Pingyao beef industry, form a cluster effect, and achieve high-quality development of the industry.
In recent years, Pingyao has polished the two business cards of "intangible cultural heritage double treasures" and "one town and two products" more and more brightly. On May 28, 2023, the Shanxi Characteristic Professional Town Pingyao Intangible Cultural Heritage Double Treasure China Tour Investment Promotion and Industry Promotion Conference was held at the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum in Beijing, with a contract amount of 2.35 billion yuan on the same day. On December 3, 2023, in order to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the successful inscription of the ancient city of Pingyao on the World Heritage List, China Post issued 7.2 million sets of special stamps entitled "World Cultural Heritage - Pingyao Ancient City", and the ancient city of Pingyao has become a permanent "national business card".
The Year of the Dragon is approaching, the ancient city of Pingyao is welcoming spring, and she is running towards a better future with a high-spirited attitude. (Source: Shanxi Daily)