Rooted in the frontline of literature and literature, inheriting the flame of civilization

Fang Qin, director of Hubei Provincial Museum, has been working in the field of museums and archaeology for 30 years. He recalled the experience of staying at the Hubei Provincial Museum and working with 75 employees to defend the safety of cultural relics during the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020. "Cultural inheritance is a big issue, which requires the dedication, perseverance and innovation of generations of our literati." Fang Qin said.

Yang Honggang, who was the leader of the cultural relics inspection team in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, has been on the front line of cultural relics protection for more than 40 years. He recounted the arduous experience in the process of cultural relics law enforcement, and the achievements made by Xi'an in enforcing cultural relics and cracking down on cultural relics crimes with the efforts of him and his colleagues. Yang Honggang said: "In the long-term practical work, we have created a joint law enforcement mechanism for cultural relics and public security, and realized the seamless docking of cracking down on cultural relics crimes. We have also promoted the linkage of the Qinjinyu Cultural Relics Law Enforcement Cooperation Area and expanded new ideas in line with the development of cultural relics. ”

Yan Ni, the leader of the women's archaeological team of the Chongqing Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and the members of the female archaeological team have continuously enriched the archaeological achievements of cultural relics and the rich connotation of Chinese civilization through field excavations, showing the feelings of the younger generation of archaeologists who "find emotions in the old paper pile and write youth in the field". Yanni said: "I deeply feel that my personal growth is not only a microcosm of the vigorous development of Chongqing's cultural heritage protection cause, but also a witness to the gradual brilliance of Chinese cultural self-confidence. ”

Wang Yuanlin, a researcher at the International Cooperation Center of the China Academy of Cultural Heritage, has long been engaged in the work of aiding foreign cultural relics, and he introduced the results of the joint archaeological tasks of international cooperation in foreign aid and cultural relics protection and joint archaeology that he has undertaken for more than 10 years. Wang Yuanlin said that it is necessary to continue to contribute professional strength and do some practical things.

Party members and representatives from the field of culture and museums said that they will always be practitioners of cultural relics protection, guardians of cultural relics safety, witnesses of the diversity and integration of Chinese civilization, and promoters of China's excellent traditional culture.

According to reports, at present, there are 767,000 various types of immovable cultural relics registered in China's census, 108 million pieces/sets of state-owned movable cultural relics, a total of 5,058 national key cultural relics protection units, 5,788 registered museums, and more than 1,600 revolutionary museums and memorials. There are more than 160,000 workers in the cultural relics system, and in order to protect these precious cultural heritages, most of them have taken root in the frontline, silently dedicated, and interpreted the mission and responsibility of cultural relics workers' civilization inheritance with practical actions.

People's Daily ( 2021-09-25 04 edition)