April 22 to April 28
One week
"People's Daily" praised Qin Huai five times
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How does the People's Daily say that we are good at Qinhuai
The old neighborhoods with a long history and the ancient buildings with a long charm tell the context of each city. On April 22, the reporter of the "People's Daily" Cultural China Tour visited the representative ancient buildings and old blocks in Jiangsu, and wrote about Qin Huai in the article "An Old Street, the Cultural Context Inherits the Past and the Present".
An old street has a cultural context that inherits the past and the present
Bloom the new color of intangible cultural heritage
When night falls, a colorful picture scroll spreads out along the Qinhuai River, and the historical and cultural district of Confucius Temple in Nanjing is ten miles of flowing colors, as if reproducing the grand occasion of the lantern market and the commercial market in the "Shangyuan Lantern Color Map".
In the Spring Festival of 2024, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will "Light up the Chinese Lanterns" - the main venue of the first National Lantern Exhibition. The history of Qinhuai lanterns can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, to the Qing Dynasty, Qinhuai lanterns are more and more exquisite in production, and there is also a great development in varieties and styles.
Cao Zhenrong, the provincial intangible cultural heritage inheritor of the Qinhuai Lantern Festival, is 80 years old and has been in the lamp market for nearly 60 years. When the reporter saw him in the studio, he was engrossed in making lanterns. "Although the lantern is small, the skill is complicated, and it can be completed through dozens of processes such as splitting, sawing, cutting, cutting, cutting, smoking, baking, baking, ironing, dipping, dyeing, piercing, mounting, and painting. Cao Zhenrong told reporters that the lantern not only pays attention to the technical effort, but also needs to innovate in style.
This year's Rotam has a different kind of innovation. "The feet should be long, the claws should be strong, and the eyes should be spiritual, reflecting the style of the times and the charm of the dragon. Cao Zhenrong introduced, the previous longan is pasted or rolled with crepe paper, classic but not three-dimensional enough, this year he found a kind of "plastic beads" from white to blue, color gradient from the market, used to make eyes, dragon lanterns are more lifelike.
"For me, the Qinhuai Lantern Festival is a spiritual pillar and a rush in life. The Qinhuai Lantern Festival also has a heavy weight in the hearts of Nanjing people. Cao Zhenrong said.
Since ancient times, the Qinhuai River Basin has convenient transportation, and the handicraft, silk weaving industry, and commerce and trade industries on both sides of the river are developed. Rooted in the fertile soil, Qinhuai lanterns have developed rapidly, and have led to the development of folk culture and art forms such as paper-cutting, empty bamboo, knots, carving, shadow puppetry, and stilt walking.
In 2021, the Nanjing Intangible Cultural Heritage Experience Center located on the banknote street of Confucius Temple was officially opened. Visitors can experience intangible cultural heritage items under the guidance of intangible cultural heritage inheritors. "Through exhibitions, performances and experiential activities, we will build a bridge for citizens to understand and fall in love with intangible cultural heritage, and enhance their self-confidence and consciousness in inheriting the thousand-year-old cultural context. Yin Lei, head of the intangible cultural heritage experience center, said.
The protection, repair, revitalization and utilization of historical and cultural districts have become an inexhaustible source of culture for urban development. On April 24, the "People's Daily" Cultural China Tour column broke the topic with "Repair of Ancient Buildings in the East Historical and Cultural District of the South Gate of the Old City", praising the old city south of Qinhuai District, where the ancient buildings are protected and repaired in accordance with the method of "repairing the old as the old", which not only continues the style and texture, but also retains the atmosphere of the times.
Historic districts are developed in preservation
Fix the old as it used to record history
The ancient buildings of No. 18 and 20 Santiaoying in the East Historical and Cultural District of the South Gate of the Old Town of Nanjing are familiar to many Nanjing people - this is the "Jishan Hall".
This is a typical multi-entry courtyard building complex in Nanjing's traditional dwellings, with a total of two roads and seven entrances, covering an area of more than 4,500 square meters, in turn for the entrance hall, the sedan hall, the hall, the main house, the middle is connected by a corridor, and the street house is paved with blue stone below.
Li Jianbo, director of the Qinhuai Branch of the Nanjing Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources, said that "Laomendong" (Mendong Historical and Cultural District), as the "condensed place" of the first batch of historical and cultural cities in the country, contains rich historical information and has important cultural value. However, due to the war and the use of materials, many buildings are precious and fragile. In 2009, Nanjing carried out the protection and repair of "Laomendong" with the policy of "overall protection, organic renewal, government-led, and prudent use of the market".
The first step of the renovation is to preserve the biggest features of the architectural style: blue bricks and gray tiles, horse-head walls, and lattice windows hanging in the cloister. Li Jianbo introduced that from 2012 to 2014, the planning department of Qinhuai District of Nanjing City, together with the School of Architecture of Southeast University, carried out quantitative mapping and horizontal comparison of the color, size and style of 100 well-preserved and representative traditional houses in the south of the old city, such as paving, doors and windows, beams and columns, etc., listed the range of adaptive values, and compiled an atlas of traditional houses in the south of the old city of Nanjing, as a reference guide for "repairing the old as before".
Just like the master who wants to "leave blank" when restoring cultural relics, the restoration of ancient buildings in Lao Cai is not "antique" or even "fake and real", but through "leaving traces", preserving the information in its historical process. Li Jianbo introduced that in recent years, Nanjing has protected the "authenticity" of historical and cultural districts from the perspectives of physical space and residents, and realized "seeing people, things, and life".
On April 27, the People's Daily Overseas Edition used a full-page comparison of old and new pictures in the visual wide-angle column to comprehensively show the new scene of historical inheritance and improvement of people's livelihood after the "micro transformation" of Xiaoxihu Block in Qinhuai District, Nanjing.
Xiaoxihu District is located in the core area of the south of the old city in Qinhuai District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, connecting Confucius Temple and Mendong Historic District. For a long time, it was an old neighborhood that had fallen into disrepair. Nowadays, after the "micro-transformation" according to local conditions, the living environment of the old street has been significantly improved, and the historical inheritance and the improvement of people's livelihood complement each other.
In 2015, the "micro-transformation" of Xiaoxihu District was launched, and while retaining the spatial pattern and texture of the traditional old city, it introduced diversified business formats such as lantern studios, insect museums, teahouses, homestays, light restaurants, and "Internet celebrity" art exhibition halls to create a characteristic cultural district.
The fireworks of the market and the sense of modern fashion are intertwined here, and the Xiaoxihu neighborhood has become one of the must-visit places for young people to "check in" in Nanjing. In 2022, the Xiaoxihu Urban Renewal Project won the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Conservation Award.
The happy life of Qinhuai people
Not only thanks to
A new paradigm of life brought about by the renewal of the old city
It also benefits from the "quality improvement" of Qinhuai's ecological environment quality
The beauty of flowers, water, and environment is brought
The spring is just right, and "Fancy Qinhuai" attracts groups of tourists to check in. On April 25, the People's Daily was also attracted by the Qinhuai flower incident and told the people of the whole country the story of a 600-year-old wisteria tree in Qinhuai.
Flowers bloom on April days. In Zhenghe Park, No. 35, Taiping Lane, Qinhuai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, a peculiar wisteria tree is eye-catching: the main trunk is more than 20 meters long, the thickest part is more than 1 meter in diameter, and the whole wisteria covers an area of more than 40 square meters. The vine trunk circled, struggling to climb upward. This is a typical feature of large lianas after the age of the tree. In mid-April, as the temperature rises, clusters of purple flowers bloom on the vines that climb upwards. The wisteria in full bloom is full of life and attracts many citizens. The sign on the side indicates: It is now a first-class ancient and famous tree in Nanjing, numbered 826, and the age of the tree is more than 600 years.
Purple flowers hang down in bunches, hundreds, many and dense, becoming a beautiful landscape.
Because of its characteristics of spiraling upward, wisteria is considered to have a tenacious and unyielding, noble and upward temperament, and has become one of the earliest flowering vines applied to gardens and gardens. During his tenure and residence in Nanjing, the Qing Dynasty writer Yuan Mei planted wisteria in Suiyuan. Wisteria is also a characteristic native plant of Nanjing. At present, Nanjing still retains a large number of ancient wisteria trees, which can be seen in the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Mochou Lake, Zhan Garden and other garden scenic spots.
Zheng He Park was the garden of Zheng He's family in the Ming Dynasty, which has witnessed the changes of the years. The wisteria is maintained by Zhenghe Park on a daily basis, patrolling twice a day, including cleaning weeds, inspecting its appearance, and conducting professional inspections twice a month, with third-party companies bringing maintenance tools to the door, pruning dead branches, applying medicine to prevent insects, and cleaning cavities.
In recent years, the wisteria has undergone two "surgeries", one in 2007, when the tree was rotten, and a professional company sprayed it to prevent it, fertilized it to promote growth, and pruned dead branches to promote the germination of new branches. The second time was in 2022, due to the growth of the root system and the lifting of nearby bricks, the staff re-laid the masonry, expanded the tree pool, replaced the nutrient soil, left enough space for the root system to stretch, and also laid sensors around it to monitor the water content, temperature changes, and salt content changes of the soil environment in the tree pond in real time, and transmitted the data to the managers in real time for timely maintenance.
Nowadays, not only do many residents sit by the wisteria to enjoy the shade when it blooms in spring and summer, but even in autumn and winter when the leaves are falling, tourists and photographers come from afar to see it, and there are also elementary and junior high school students who come to visit and study every year.
On April 28, the front page of the People's Daily published a series of articles "Cultivating the Green Background of High-quality Development (Continue to Consolidate and Enhance the Positive Trend of Economic Recovery, Implementation after the Two Sessions (7))", which praised the effectiveness of the governance of Qinhuai's water environment.
In Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Zou Mengqing, a resident of the Crescent Lake Community in Qinhuai District, and his family played along the greenway by the Crescent Lake. Cheng Jun, director of the Nanjing Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, said that 103 water environment treatment projects will be implemented this year, and 18 river water environment improvement actions will be implemented to promote the continuous improvement of river and lake water quality.