Source: China Youth Network
On October 27-28, 2021, on the occasion of the Asian Cultural Heritage Protection Dialogue Conference held in Beijing, the Beijing Central Axis Heritage Application and Protection Work Office launched the "Dialogue on the Central Axis, Looking for the Central Axis Face" plan through the official Weibo, aiming to introduce the central axis of Beijing to Asia and the world through ordinary faces, and help Beijing to apply for the central axis.
The cold of late autumn has not dampened enthusiasm for Beijing's central axis. Photographers hold professional cameras to capture vivid "central axis faces", and ordinary citizens hold up their mobile phones to record the next moving "central axis pictures". Within three days of the campaign, the initiators collected many colorful works.
A collection of central axe faces
A group closely related to the blood of the city naturally assumes the mission of "dialogue with the world and help the central axis to apply for heritage", which is indispensable.
This group is not only a witness to the development of Beijing's central axis, but also a witness and participant. Their lives and work revolve around the central axis; their growth trajectory originates from the central axis; and what they think and think is rooted in the central axis.
From Yongdingmen to Bell and Drum Tower, the 7.8-kilometer-long central axis of Beijing is the longest and best-preserved traditional capital axis in China, which not only brings together the essence of the entire city architecture, but also condenses the ancient and modern time and space humanistic style, which is the soul of the old city of Beijing.
The central axis is the axis of space of Beijing City, but also the axis of culture, here, history and the times blend, space and time intertwine, culture and cultural relics intersect; here, the imperial city and fireworks coexist, classical and popular coexist, the nation and the world are connected; here, the old brand and the new trend compete for glory, the old tradition and the new model are integrated, the old building and the new fashion are in tune; the "central axis faces" scattered on the axis bring together the appearance of life, condense the epitome of the times, give the cultural atmosphere, look at the overall situation from the subtle, and gather the grandeur with bits and pieces. It shows the colorful axis of Vientiane, reflecting the vivid colors on the central axis.
Among the many "central axis faces", newcomers Lin Xiaoyu & Wang Hanyuan have just received a marriage license at the Civil Affairs Bureau of Xicheng District in Beijing. Lin Xiaoyu, who grew up along the central axis, has a full sense of ceremony in his life that cannot be separated from the central axis: "Of course, the wedding must also be held in the hutong on the central axis, and the central axis records my best life. ”
Zhao Ziran and Qiao Ting, who took wedding photos at the Drum Tower, hoped that the Bell and Drum Tower would witness their happiness.
Speaking of "witness", Master Zhao Zengzong of the century-old Qianmen Dabei Photo Studio has a lot of feelings: "I have witnessed the sincere smiling faces of every guest who comes to Dabei today from the 1970s to today, and their smiling faces are the reasons for encouraging me to insist on shooting better." Frozen countless happy moments, but also witnessed many important moments in the country. I grew up with the Great North Photography Museum. "From 1921 to the present, the Great North Photo Gallery, located on the central axis of Beijing, is like a time machine. In the past hundred years, countless customers have left photos that record the years and warmth, and also witness the glorious process of a nation from standing up and getting rich to becoming strong.
Regarding history, museums on the central axis and its buffer zone are also everywhere: the National Museum of China, the Palace Museum, the China Numismatic Museum, the China Railway Museum, the Xiannongtan Tantian Ruins, the Guo Shoujing Memorial Hall in Beijing, the Beijing Museum of Natural History...
Ma Jing, a docent at the China Numismatic Museum, introduced that the China Numismatic Museum uses currency to tell the public about the history of China, which is an expo place on the central axis where you can understand the history of Chinese currency and the history of China's social development.
Guo Shuang, an associate researcher at Xiannongtan, said that Xiannongtan embodies the agricultural culture on the central axis and embodies the traditional Chinese idea of heavy agriculture. We have not only retained the "one acre and three points of land" that Yongzheng had personally cultivated, but also retained the happiness of Beijingers who can experience farming on the central axis.
Zhang Peng, executive director of the Guo Shoujing Memorial Hall in Beijing, often told the children that the central axis is "long", and the central axis that is still growing makes Beijing full of future-oriented vitality.
A central axis of Beijing, which perfectly interprets inheritance and innovation. In order to maintain the appearance of the Temple of Heaven, Ji Ruiqin, the founder of Anhe Glass and the inheritor of beijing official glazed tile firing, made unremitting efforts: "From only 5 of the 265 pieces qualified, to today's temple full of blue glazed pieces shining, it took me more than ten years." Stick to it and survive it, in order to shine like glass. I want the art of glass firing to pass on and continue to shine on the central axis of Beijing. ”
Jiang Jingjing, designer of Beijing Tianqiao Art Center, believes that Tianqiao is not only a landmark, but also a string of meaningful cultural symbols. Whether it was or is, it is interpreting the scenes of life in different ways.
Cheng Xu, deputy general manager of Neiliansheng, said that today, Neiliansheng's mille-layered bottom cloth shoes have accompanied the old Beijingers for more than 160 years. Now we are trying to introduce this old and younger brand in a new way.
The well-known Quanjude is an uncompromising indigenous people on the central axis of Beijing. The key word of Wu Yubo, the sixth generation inheritor of the Quanjude hanging oven roast duck technology, is "perseverance": I was born here, grew up here, and saw the development and change of the "Four Nine Cities". Now, I want to continue to uphold this skill within my power.
Yao Ji fried liver on the east side of the Drum Tower - that is, the US Vice President Biden who visited China was attracted to that store, and in the most lively place on the central axis, adhering to the historical inheritance of snack culture. The owner Yao Yan said in a simple language: "Through snacks, people feel happy and satisfied." ”
The delicacy of old Beijing, the memory of the central axis is not absent. Wang Yuechuan, the owner of the sugar gourd stall in Qianmen Commercial Street, hopes that every tourist who comes to Qianmen will taste the sweet taste of Beijing.
Sweetness, not only in words, but also in the heart. As the "living" soul of Beijing, the central axis has its unique attributes - vivid and vivid, continuous, and inseparable from the daily life of the people. Beijing's application for the central axis will become a "family event" for all Beijingers, another "Beijing business card" for all Beijing to know Beijing, and another "Chinese cultural symbol" for the whole world to know China.
Douyin master German Leo Loeb said he likes to measure Beijing with his feet. He said: "The central axis has become a signpost for my life in Beijing, and according to the central axis I can distinguish between the southeast, south, and northwest of Beijing." I now call myself a Beijinger, and if I have friends and family from Germany, I will take them through the central axis, and after walking the central axis, I can see the most beautiful scenery in Beijing. ”
At the Asian Cultural Heritage Protection Dialogue, Lv Zhou, head of the Beijing Central Axis Text Team and director of the National Heritage Center of Tsinghua University, delivered a keynote speech entitled "The Central Axis of Beijing from the Perspective of Asian Cultural Diversity"; the just-launched "Beijing Central Axis" digital exhibition pushed this excellent Chinese cultural heritage with Asian characteristics to the international stage through a new form of online interactive exhibition; the "Dialogue on the Central Axis, Looking for the Face of the Central Axis" project initiated by the Beijing Central Axis Application and Heritage Protection Office. Through ordinary faces, ordinary stories, and plain words, they tell the same theme, express the same emotion, and are committed to the same goal - to help the application and protection of Beijing's central axis, so that Beijing, a city that has experienced vicissitudes and lasted for a long time, can dialogue with Asian cities and dialogue with world civilization.