The story of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years has spread throughout the streets and alleys of the world. We are "not sorry to enter China in this life" and are extremely proud to be the sons and daughters of China.
As one of the four ancient civilizations, China knows how long China's history and culture are and how precious its heritage is. The World Cultural Heritage Movement is only a hundred years old, and our country has five thousand years of civilization.
From the earliest Stone Age", "Faience Human Face Fish Pattern Basin", to the "Bronze Sacred Tree" that was recently unearthed in Sanxingdui, Guanghan, Sichuan.
Our country's historical heritage has been continuously discovered and protected by the top conservation measures, and now our heritage protection has expanded to a bridge, a tower, a forest...
On July 29, 1937, our capital was captured by the Japanese, and Peiping was living in dire straits. People did not dare to go out, every household closed its doors and windows, the streets were sparsely populated, and Peiping, which was originally lively and extraordinary, was suddenly dead silent.
Under the circumstances at that time, why didn't the Japanese loot the Forbidden City? As a symbol of the power of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City is still very popular in the country even now. After the accumulation of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the treasures of the Forbidden City are innumerable.
At that time, the Japanese claimed to occupy China for three months and wanted to use the Forbidden City as the emperor's palace, so they did not dare to loot the Forbidden City.
When the emperor Puyi left the imperial palace at the end of the Qing Dynasty, he also took some precious cultural relics and transported them to Nanjing and other places, when a large number of cultural relics moved south, everyone knew that not all cultural relics could be moved, so there were still many precious cultural relics left in the Forbidden City.
However, in the situation of the Forbidden City at that time, the cultural relics stored in the Forbidden City were safe and sound.
Although there are two reasons for this, it is not so that the cultural relics of the Forbidden City can be intact to such a point. In fact, although the Japanese army captured the Forbidden City at that time, it was still Chinese to manage the Forbidden City. Here we have to mention a person, Zhang Tingji, the administrator of the Forbidden City.
This is because there are a large number of prestigious people who have been struggling to protect the Forbidden City, including Zhang Tingji. He represented the will of the people of Peiping, and once the Japanese used force against the Forbidden City, it would provoke a popular uprising.
But he knew that this was not a long-term solution, so he used all the manpower and material resources around him to transport the cultural relics of the Forbidden City to the palace overnight, and constantly negotiated with the Japanese side so that they would not destroy the cultural relics left in the Forbidden City.
After the Japanese army invaded and occupied Beiping, the management of the Forbidden City, headed by Zhang Tingji, resolutely stayed in Beiping City to protect the cultural relics that could not be transferred, and carefully counted and cataloged the cultural relics left behind one by one. This has also played a very beneficial role in protecting cultural relics.
Without Zhang Tingji's hard work to protect it, and without the forbidden city management at that time, how much better would the Forbidden City we see now be than the Yuanmingyuan? How will the splendor that belonged to them be as intact as it is now?
Therefore, we should always remember the person who made great contributions to the protection of cultural relics - Zhang Tingji.
We want to thank him. Thank him for letting us see these dazzling treasures in the Forbidden City, and thank him for protecting precious wealth for the country.
In 1985, when our country acceded to the World Heritage Convention, although we joined it somewhat late, it soon became the year 1987 that our country had its first World Heritage Sites, and among these World Heritage sites was our Forbidden City.
In this batch of World Heritage Sites, compared with the ruins of the Great Wall and the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, the safety and security of the Forbidden City is particularly prominent.
The Japanese invaded and occupied Peiping for 8 years, but they did not know that long before their occupation of Beiping, the cultural relics in the Forbidden City began to be secretly transferred from February 5, 1933, in order to avoid the plunder and destruction of the Japanese invasion war.
After several twists and turns, after thousands of hardships, the transfer route shifted the three directions of the south, middle and north to the rear. As a result, these cultural relics survived the era of bullets and bullets without any damage, and were not buried in the long river of history.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the protection of cultural relics in the Beiping Forbidden City was also a poignant rescue and relocation road. When the Japanese army occupied the northeast, Yi Peiji, the director of the Palace Museum, asked Nanjing for help, asking for the cultural relics to be transferred south.
In February 1933, the cultural relics were transferred in batches, and the first foothold was Shanghai, which was a concession of Westerners at that time, so the cultural relics gained a temporary stability here.
Three years later, the cultural relics were transported in batches to the newly built cultural relics warehouse in Nanjing, but this was the real beginning of the upheaval of cultural relics.
In 1937, Nanjing was captured, and the cultural relics began a difficult ten-year transfer journey, and the cultural relics were successively transported to Changsha, Guiyang, Sichuan, Shaanxi and other places.
It was not until the success of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression that the cultural relics after hiding from the Ten Years' War in 1947 finally returned to Nanjing. After the defeat of the Kuomintang, more than 5,000 boxes of precious cultural relics were transported, and after the completion of the National Palace in Taipei, the cultural relics moved to Taiwan could be put down.
Due to the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the cultural relics of the Forbidden City were also scattered around the world. Nowadays, the cultural relics of the Palace Museum in Beijing have been painstakingly protected by those cultural relics conservators, and if there is no such person as Zhang Tingji, we will not see the splendid palace today.
These cultural relics are also an important part of the Forbidden City, and the existence of the whole like this is more precious, the Forbidden City is magnificent because of these cultural relics, and the cultural relics are full of vitality because of the Forbidden City.
The Japanese invaders occupied Beijing for 8 years, because Zhang Tingji's guards saved the cultural relics of the Forbidden City from wanton plunder, and the Japanese army failed to successfully steal our precious cultural relics.
This also makes us know very well that in any moment of crisis, there is no shortage of loyal and martyrs in our country, and it is precisely because of these lovely people and the efforts of such generations of Chinese people that the land of China will certainly become stronger and richer.
Because of these warriors who fought hard to protect cultural relics, our cultural heritage has been passed down to this day, and only then has our country's cultural heritage entered the ranks of World Heritage. It is precisely because of the desperate protection of these warriors that we have entered the gate of the World Heritage Treasure House.
In the future World Heritage nomination, China has become one of the countries with the largest number of heritage in the world. However, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is our understanding and approval of the common cultural heritage of mankind.
Monofilament does not form a line, and a single tree does not become a forest. Whether it is the division of china's cultural relics by the imperial powers, or the looting of the Japanese army.
These are the occupation of cultural relics, which are a symbol of a nation and more of a testimony to the evolutionary history of the world.
We live on the same earth, and it is the responsibility of each and every one of us to protect the things on this planet. We should not fail these brave men who sacrificed their lives for cultural relics, and we should let these hard-won cultural relics be passed down from generation to generation.