Under Qilian Mountain, Hexi Corridor is magnificent.
Jiayuguan is the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall in Wan Li in Ming Dynasty. Jiayuguan, together with the nearby Great Wall walls, trenches, guardrails and beacon towers, constitutes a strict military defense system, which is called "the first male pass in the world". In recent years, Gansu has deeply explored the cultural value of the Great Wall, strengthened the interpretation of the cultural connotation of the Great Wall, inherited and innovated on the basis of protection, and continued the China context with the spirit of the times.
Only when I boarded Guancheng did I know that the spirit of the Great Wall was endless.
Jiayuguan Guancheng is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in China, and was listed in the first batch of world cultural heritage list in China in 1980s. At present, Jiayuguan has 43.62km of the Great Wall, 0.94km of trenches/kloc-0, 8 Guan Bao, 49 beacon towers and 49 enemy towers.
Protect the context and make the heritage displayed on the vast land come alive.
To the north of Jiayuguan, black mountain range rises and falls. From the sky, a yellow "dragon" swooped down along the top of the mountain and connected with Guancheng. This is the "Cantilever Great Wall" called the upside-down cantilever, which is an important part of Jiayuguan Great Wall cultural relics. Hundreds of years later, its tall walls and battlements still stand tall on the top of the mountain.
The Great Wall stands tall, behind which is the innovative development of cultural heritage protection and the relay protection of generations of Great Wall people. In the long historical years, the Great Wall has suffered from natural disasters and man-made destruction such as wind and rain erosion and earthquakes. And there are many diseases such as brittle alkali at the root of the wall, empty drum in the wall, weathering of rammed soil on the surface, cracks and so on.
The "living history" of Jiayuguan for hundreds of years has given new vitality.
In recent years, Jiayuguan Great Wall Museum has vigorously held a series of research activities and invited experts and scholars from the Great Wall to enter the campus. Special lectures such as "a small brick, building a city" let the cultural knowledge of the Great Wall enter the mind. In Guancheng Scenic Area, research activities such as "I am repairing the Great Wall in Jiayuguan", "I am repairing cultural relics in the Great Wall Museum" and "Little Great Wall Interpreter" are organized for young people, so that students can know the construction history of the Great Wall on the spot and understand the cultural spirit of the Great Wall.
Integrate the past and the present, tolerate and unite, and build a common spiritual home.
Nowadays, the historical context of China is integrated into modern life, and the intersection of mountains, rivers and humanities has become a modern livable place, bearing the common honor and dreams of different nationalities, and is moving towards a farther future with new vitality. In recent years, Jiayuguan has aggregated elements such as Great Wall culture, frontier fortress culture and Silk Road culture to create a new Great Wall culture IP, and has formed a cultural tourism industry pattern of "one move, one static, one ancient and one present, one new and one old" with Guguan City.