Guangming Daily reporter Liu Ping ‘an Li Yun
On the afternoon of June 8, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made an investigation in Yibin City, Sichuan Province.
Following in the footsteps of the general secretary, we saw the "first city of the Yangtze River" that was eye-catching. Ecologically, through systematic ecological restoration, a 192-kilometer-long urban ecological corridor has been slowly spread along the Yangtze River, tying a beautiful "green ribbon" to the Yangtze River. Culturally, the ancient town of Lizhuang, known as the "No.1 Ancient Town in the Yangtze River", is constantly gaining new vitality in generate, becoming a yearning place for literati in the new era.
The change of Yibin is actually a microcosm of the "Great Protection of the Yangtze River" and the protection, inheritance and promotion of the Yangtze River culture in all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities along the Yangtze River.
As the mother river of the Chinese nation, the Yangtze River has created a thousand-year cultural context from Bashan Shushui to Jiangnan Water Town. It is a representative symbol of the Chinese nation and a symbolic symbol of Chinese civilization, and is an important source of cultivating socialist core values. How to protect, inherit and carry forward the Yangtze River culture, continue the historical context, and strengthen cultural self-confidence? Thirteen provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities along the Yangtze River took the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park as an opportunity to vividly answer the topic of this era.

Protect, Inherit and Carry Forward the Yangtze River Culture: Let the endless Yangtze River Culture catch fire.
Let Chinese civilization be more completely displayed in front of the world.
In recent years, the academic circles have generally realized the importance of the Yangtze River culture, and relevant units and scholars have made active efforts to protect, inherit and carry forward the Yangtze River culture.
In December 2020, the Yangtze River Institute of Civilization and Archaeology, jointly established by Hubei Provincial Cultural Tourism Department and Wuhan University, was established. Relying on the discipline of archaeology, the Institute fully promotes the archaeological research of the Yangtze River civilization through the excavation, protection and utilization of important archaeological sites. According to Liu Auditorium, president of the Institute of Archaeology of Yangtze River Civilization of Wuhan University, Bashu civilization, Jingchu civilization, wuyue civilization formed in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the civilizations in the Yellow River valley interacted and blended, and jointly shaped the magnificent Chinese civilization. Today, they have made many breakthroughs in the overall study of the Yangtze River civilization.
Two years ago, an illustrated book "On Bashu Landscape Painting" attracted wide attention in the art and academic circles. In 2019, Guan Mao, vice chairman of Sichuan Artists Association, completed the topic of "Narration of Bashu Landscape Paintings" in eight years, and put forward the views that China landscape painting culture originated from Bashu and China landscape painting, and that both landscape painting originated from Bashu, and its conclusion sparked heated discussions in academic circles. Guan Wei told the reporter: "I stayed up all night after discovering the landscape pattern in Sanxingdui Yuzhang’s" Mountain Sacrifice Map ",and started an in-depth study from this. To do research, you should boldly imagine, carefully verify and find answers from massive historical materials. " Nowadays, the enthusiasm of the people who are over 60 years old has not diminished, and they are still working hard to protect and carry forward the Yangtze River culture.
"The Yangtze River culture and the Yellow River culture are both core cultures of Chinese civilization." He Yunao, director and professor of the Institute of Culture and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University, believes that "Yangtze River cultural relics" and "Yangtze River culture" are two sides of a whole, and the Yangtze River cultural relics are an important carrier of the cultural connotation of the Yangtze River and the main witness to the long history of the Yangtze River culture. He called for government-led, legal protection, scientific and technological investment and social participation to protect and inherit the cultural relics of the Yangtze River.
Protect, Inherit and Carry Forward the Yangtze River Culture: Let the endless Yangtze River Culture catch fire.

In the first demonstration school for guarding finless porpoises in China — — In Daxing Road Primary School in Wuhan, the popular science class of the finless porpoise allows children to guard the finless porpoise and grow up happily. Gao Baoyan photo/bright picture
Cultural workers are in action to protect the cultural relics of the Yangtze River. In the past two years, Sanxingdui archaeological excavation has achieved fruitful results, and a large number of cultural relics need to be repaired in time, which is a big challenge for Yu Jian, director of the exhibition and storage department of Sanxingdui Museum in Guanghan, Sichuan Province, and his team. The protection and restoration of cultural relics is a boring and slow process, and the orthopedic work of a bronze ware may last for one or two months. "Sometimes sitting for hours is boring. You have to be patient and interested to hold your breath." Yu Jian said. However, they are not afraid of difficulties and sitting on the "cold bench", and they have successfully completed their tasks, making Chinese civilization more completely displayed in front of the world, making Sanxingdui "wake up again", fully demonstrating the important contributions of ancient Shu civilization and Yangtze River culture to Chinese civilization, and demonstrating the origin of Chinese civilization’s pluralism and unity.
Let history live and culture burn.
At the end of 2021, after the renovation of the Sanxingdui Museum Restoration Center, which was originally closed, it was opened to the public with an open restoration museum, which fully displayed the real scene of the arrangement and restoration of newly unearthed archaeological cultural relics. "In the past, cultural relics could only be displayed to the public after they were restored. Now, you can see the whole picture of the unearthed cultural relics on the booth at the first time of archaeological research and immerse yourself in the whole process of cultural relics restoration and protection." Tang Fei, president of Sichuan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said, "This innovative measure is also conducive to narrowing the distance between people and cultural relics, and cultural relics have come to life."
Bridging the distance between cultural relics and the public, history and the public is the direction that all localities pay more and more attention to in the process of protecting, inheriting and carrying forward the Yangtze River culture.
The Huangmei Opera "Offering a Boat" created by Anqing Huangmei Opera Art Theatre with the theme of crossing the river participated in the 6th National Minority Literature and Art Exhibition and won the Dream Award — — Drama innovation award. According to Han Yong, an actor of Anqing Huangmei Opera Art Theatre, the creative team conducted in-depth research and finally presented a story of a Hui village offering a boat to help the PLA cross the Yangtze River and win the battle of crossing the river.
Also telling the story of the Yangtze River, the Memorial Hall of the Battle of Crossing the Yangtze River in Anhui Province has made great efforts in regular exhibitions and irregular activities. "In order to let more people walk into the memorial hall, we have planned many special activities on holidays." Aric, director of the research and storage room of the Memorial Hall of the Battle of Crossing the River, said, "On International Museum Day, we held ‘ The Power of Museums — — Spirit is like a torch, faith is like a rock: tribute to the revolutionary light chaser ’ Theme activities; Dragon Boat Festival, we planned ‘ Dragon Boat Festival in the Anti-Japanese War — — I am also good at my heart ’ Theme activities. During the epidemic, we also insisted on passing on the Yangtze River culture to more young people through online explanations. "
Protect, Inherit and Carry Forward the Yangtze River Culture: Let the endless Yangtze River Culture catch fire.

Muyan Riverside Scenic Belt in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Zhaojie photo/bright picture
A series of prehistoric cultures, such as Baodun culture, Daxi culture, Qujialing culture, Shijiahe culture, Hemudu culture and Liangzhu culture, are distributed along the Yangtze River, and various intangible cultural heritages such as clothing, diet and handicrafts are also preserved. A large number of high-quality exhibitions and cultural activities have been held in various provinces and regions around the Yangtze River in combination with regional characteristics. From May 18th to August 28th, 2022, Nanjing Museum (Chaotian Palace) launched its first exhibition on the culture of the Yangtze River — — From Qinhuai River to Yangtze River — — Special Exhibition of Ancient Nanjing Section of the Yangtze River Cultural Relics tells the story of Nanjing and the Yangtze River through 300 pieces (sets) of precious cultural relics; On June 10th, 2022, Hubei Archaeological Museum officially opened, "Millennium Context — — Yangtze River Civilization Archaeological Exhibition Hubei ""Century Project — — Three major exhibitions, "Three Gorges Archaeological Achievements Exhibition in Hubei" and "Yangtze Civilization Exhibition (Digital)", take the public to touch the Millennium context of Hubei; From June to November, 2021, Panlongcheng Ruins Museum in Hubei Province planned and held the "Yangtze River Wan Li Green — — Exhibition of Bronze Works in the Yangtze River Basin presents the bronze culture of the Yangtze River Basin in an all-round way.
In recent years, "Chu Feng Han Yun Opera has a long history — — Wuhan Opera Wharf Changjiang Theater has attracted a lot of attention. Wuhan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism proposed that all parties concerned should put opera performances on cruise ships to build a mobile theater with Wuhan city characteristics, and the activities of opera boarding gradually developed into a business card for night trips to the Yangtze River. In Jiangsu, the brand activity "Yangtze River Culture Festival" fully displays the rich contents of the Yangtze River culture through activities such as "writing about the Yangtze River", "painting the Yangtze River" and "singing the Yangtze River", and helps the Yangtze River culture to catch fire among the masses.
The construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park fully activates the resource elements.
Recently, Hubei Province hosted the main event of "May 18th International Museum Day" in China, and launched an exhibition on the theme of the Yangtze River and "Walking in Jiangcheng — — Start a series of activities such as the Yangtze River Civilization Tour and the Yangtze River Light Show; Hold the 2022 Dragon Boat Festival in Qu Yuan’s hometown to highlight Qu Yuan’s cultural characteristics and promote Jingchu culture; The 7th Yangtze River Reading Festival was held, and 13 provincial libraries along the Yangtze River were combined to carry out a series of activities of "Reading China along the Yangtze River", highlighting the theme of the Yangtze River and creating a strong atmosphere.
At the beginning of this year, the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park was officially launched. Thirteen provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities took this opportunity to fully activate the rich historical and cultural resources of the Yangtze River, systematically expound the spiritual connotation of the Yangtze River culture, and deeply explore the era value of the Yangtze River culture.
After the start of the construction of the National Cultural Park, cultural and cultural institutions in various provinces carried out the investigation of cultural relics resources in the Yangtze River basin in time. Recently, Guizhou Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology sent several field archaeological investigation teams to carry out the investigation of cultural relics resources in the Yangtze River Basin (Guizhou section). They supplemented information, collected images and verified some important cultural heritages through data collection and field survey. Not long ago, Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, together with Sichuan University, conducted a survey of cultural relics resources in the Yangtze River Basin (Qinghai section) to find out the distribution, preservation and utilization of cultural relics resources in the Yangtze River Basin in Qinghai Province, deeply study the rich connotation of the Yangtze River culture, and help the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park.
In March, 2022, Jiangsu Province launched the Promotion Plan for the Construction of Jiangsu Section of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, which refined the regional construction plan of cities along the Yangtze River, worked out the protection plan for the construction of the Yangtze River Cultural Park, formulated the special plan for the protection and inheritance of cultural relics in the Yangtze River, and led the high-quality construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park with a high-quality planning system. For example, in the process of building the "Legend of the Yangtze River" and other fist products on the riverside cruise line, fully activate the elements of the Yangtze River cultural resources.
Sichuan pays attention to cross-regional and cross-departmental coordination, promotes the deep integration of culture and tourism, and actively promotes the construction of yangtze river international Golden Tourism Belt in combination with major strategies such as the Yangtze River National Cultural Park and the Bashu Cultural Tourism Corridor. For example, Luzhou will build the project of China Wine City and Yangtze River Eco-tourism Belt, with the ecological restoration of the Yangtze River as the primary task, and realize the all-round development and upgrading of urban ecology, culture, tourism, industry and economy.
Anhui province further promotes the integration of cultural tourism and strives to create a new business card of Yangtze River culture. Ma ‘anshan City has deeply explored Li Bai’s poetry culture, Xiang Yu culture, Lingjiatan culture, etc., and turned Ma ‘anshan section of the Yangtze River into a tourist destination integrating scenic spots, sightseeing, humanities education and other functions. Wuhu City launched the tenth archaeological excavation at Fanchang herringbone cave site, and started the construction of China (Yangtze River) Fishery Culture Museum (tentative name) project; In Tongling, the riverside wharf bookstore is still quietly telling the story of the Yangtze River.
The water of the Yangtze River is rolling eastward, and the culture of the Yangtze River is endless. It is the responsibility and mission to protect, inherit, explore and carry forward the culture of the Yangtze River. Thirteen provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities along the Yangtze River are working nonstop, day and night.
Guangming Daily (June 20, 2022, 05 edition)