In historical and global coordinates, Quanzhou is one of the first historical and cultural cities in the State Council, the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road and the World Religious Museum. It is also an international metropolis. It was the "largest port in the East" in the Tang, Song and Yuan Dynasties, and was listed as the world's first "world multicultural exhibition center" by UNESCO. The profound historical and cultural accumulation has left many cultural relics and historic sites for Quanzhou. There are 3 1 sites of national cultural relics protection units and 3 1 sites of national intangible cultural heritage, among which 4 projects, including Quanzhou Nanyin and Muppet, are listed in UNESCO's "Intangible Heritage" list, becoming the only city in China with all three categories of UN "Intangible Heritage" projects. But these alone cannot be elected as "the cultural capital of East Asia". I think there are many reasons for being elected:
Reason for election 1 cultural tradition
This condition requires that the city has a long history and rich cultural heritage, and the city features and cultural heritage can reflect East Asian cultural traditions and have distinctive urban or local characteristics.
Quanzhou has a number of important cultural facilities at the municipal level, such as China Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum, Quanzhou Art Museum, Library, Shanghai Museum, Museum, Weisheng Wan Stamp Art Museum, Liyuan Classical Theatre, Nanyin Art Park and Quanzhou Theatre, with a total construction area of 1 1. 690 thousand square meters. With the construction of new urban areas, Quanzhou plans to start the construction of cultural facilities such as Quanzhou Puppet Theatre, Quanzhou Song and Dance Theatre, Quanzhou Grand Theatre and new library. The new site of Quanzhou Puppet Theater will be put into use before the end of the year, and it will become the largest and highest standard puppet theater in China.
Choice reason 2 Hardware facilities
Quanzhou public libraries 1 1, including 6 national first-class libraries; Cultural center (art museum) 1 1, 5 national first-class museums; There are more than 70 museums (memorial halls), including 2 national first-class museums. There are township (street) comprehensive cultural stations in the city 163, with a coverage rate of100%; Town (street) coverage rate of public electronic reading rooms100%; There are 2349 cultural activity rooms at village (community) level, with a coverage rate of 100%. The city has 654.38+0.5 million square meters of village-level cultural squares, and 665.438+0 provincial-level cultural passion squares have been built. The city has built 2349 farmer's bookstores, taking the lead in achieving the goal of 100% administrative villages (communities) and the goal of "reaching every village".
Option 3 Financial guarantee
In order to improve the soft and hard conditions for the protection and inheritance of Minnan culture, since 2004, Quanzhou city and county have arranged special funds for the protection of intangible cultural heritage every year, and the city level has invested more than 300 million yuan to build China Fujian-Taiwan Border Museum, Quanzhou Museum, Liyuan Classical Theater, Quanzhou Nanyin Art Park and Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum and other landmark venues and facilities of Minnan culture.
This year, Quanzhou invested more than 6,543,800 yuan to build the World Minnan Cultural Exhibition Center. In recent years, it has invested more than 70 million yuan to maintain and improve the cultural relics of "Maritime Silk Road-Quanzhou Monument" declared as "World Heritage".
Of course, there are many reasons for being elected. I only listed a few. Now, you should know why Quanzhou is the cultural capital of East Asia!