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Call for cultural preservation
By Guan Wenfei and Kat Jiang |
March 28, 2011, Monday
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JIADING Museum is calling on the restoration and protection of more than 130 immovable heritage sites in Shanghai's Jiading District while more local residents have taken initiatives in the campaign to save the cultural relics in their hometown.
Jiading Museum has identified the district's immovable heritage (properties and sites of cultural value), especially newly found ones, and registered them since 2009, according to Jin Rong, head of the Relics Protection Department of the museum. "The protection work is just a race against the time," said Jin.
The museum has worked together with city experts to successfully carry out urgent excavations of one site containing a tomb from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). An ancient tomb was found at a construction site on the corner of Shengzhu Road and Hongshi Road in Juyuan New Area earlier this month. Staff from Jiading Museum used GPS satellite technology to measure the size of the tomb. After two days of excavation, a number of valuable relics were rescued.
During another similar discovery in July last year, the curator of Jiading Museum Qi Chunming guarded the site and stayed awake overnight to protect relics from a Ming Dynasty tomb found on the extension part of Cangchang Road. A bronze mirror, a wooden comb and a few pieces of jade were found in well-preserved condition.
According to the museum staff, it takes more effort to protect immovable historic constructions exposed on the ground, compared with underground excavations.
The site of Sun's Handicraft Workshop (No. 838, Huating Village, Huating Town) was added to the list of immovable heritage in July 2009. The 80-year-old owner of the house could not afford to repair the old house. The township government has decided to pay the bill and the restoration work will start soon.
Jin and her colleagues found a stone bridge from the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in Malu Town during research in March 2009. The Yuhong Bridge was about to be pulled down to make way for a plant. Jin persuaded the workers to suspend construction and a report by the town's television station finally saved the rare ancient bridge.
According to Jin, a lack of restoration funds and a scattered and territorial management restrict the current protection work. The restoration for one site often costs more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,213), which is a heavy burden for private owners.
What makes Jin and her fellow workers happier is that every month, they receive calls and letters from local residents reporting their encounters with cultural relics.
A couple from Anhui Province found a stone tablet engraved with the Chinese characters hou tu zhi shen (meaning "God of Soil") while walking along a riverbank earlier this month. They immediately called the Jiading Museum and researchers later confirmed the 171-centimeter-long tablet is the largest granite tablet of the God of Soil from the late Qing Dynasty ever found in Shanghai.
The excavation of the bell tower in Yunxiang Temple, Nanxiang Town, was also the result of a report from an unknown resident at the end of 2010.
Jiading Museum has identified the district's immovable heritage (properties and sites of cultural value), especially newly found ones, and registered them since 2009, according to Jin Rong, head of the Relics Protection Department of the museum. "The protection work is just a race against the time," said Jin.
The museum has worked together with city experts to successfully carry out urgent excavations of one site containing a tomb from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). An ancient tomb was found at a construction site on the corner of Shengzhu Road and Hongshi Road in Juyuan New Area earlier this month. Staff from Jiading Museum used GPS satellite technology to measure the size of the tomb. After two days of excavation, a number of valuable relics were rescued.
During another similar discovery in July last year, the curator of Jiading Museum Qi Chunming guarded the site and stayed awake overnight to protect relics from a Ming Dynasty tomb found on the extension part of Cangchang Road. A bronze mirror, a wooden comb and a few pieces of jade were found in well-preserved condition.
According to the museum staff, it takes more effort to protect immovable historic constructions exposed on the ground, compared with underground excavations.
The site of Sun's Handicraft Workshop (No. 838, Huating Village, Huating Town) was added to the list of immovable heritage in July 2009. The 80-year-old owner of the house could not afford to repair the old house. The township government has decided to pay the bill and the restoration work will start soon.
Jin and her colleagues found a stone bridge from the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) in Malu Town during research in March 2009. The Yuhong Bridge was about to be pulled down to make way for a plant. Jin persuaded the workers to suspend construction and a report by the town's television station finally saved the rare ancient bridge.
According to Jin, a lack of restoration funds and a scattered and territorial management restrict the current protection work. The restoration for one site often costs more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,213), which is a heavy burden for private owners.
What makes Jin and her fellow workers happier is that every month, they receive calls and letters from local residents reporting their encounters with cultural relics.
A couple from Anhui Province found a stone tablet engraved with the Chinese characters hou tu zhi shen (meaning "God of Soil") while walking along a riverbank earlier this month. They immediately called the Jiading Museum and researchers later confirmed the 171-centimeter-long tablet is the largest granite tablet of the God of Soil from the late Qing Dynasty ever found in Shanghai.
The excavation of the bell tower in Yunxiang Temple, Nanxiang Town, was also the result of a report from an unknown resident at the end of 2010.
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