mtl008 Chapter 396 Do They Want to Understand My Chinese Culture?
Chapter 396 Do They Want to Understand My Chinese Culture?
[Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han: This is a great design! The red walls and yellow tiles look really beautiful.]
[Huo Qubing in the sixth year of Yuanshou in the Han Dynasty: Is this the special effect mentioned in the reviews? If the reviews hadn’t said it was fake and made with special effects, I wouldn’t have believed it. Every single one of them looks so realistic.]
[Kublai Khan: Humph! My vision is still good, and Liu Bingzhong's design is also good. Those who follow me should take a closer look, this is what we call real skill.]
[Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao: You speak as if you built it yourself. Before, there was Liu Bingzhong, and we also have Kuai Xiang and Ruan An in the Ming Dynasty.]
[Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, Aisin-Gioro Hongli: Our Qing Dynasty also has the Yangshi Lei family.]
[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: It was completed by three dynasties, which is a great project in history! It was preserved in the war and continued to the era of later generations, which is very valuable.]
[Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che: [Like]]
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"Beijing's unique and magnificent order lies in this central axis."
"Respect the middle."
The more Liu Che read the introduction on the screen, the more he felt emotional and unbearable.
"Hmm... Can Chang'an be modified again?" Then he shook his head, "It is better to spend money on the right things. The Han Dynasty now has powerful enemies outside."
Although he said that, there was envy in his eyes.
"Is that technology? Those complex technologies are displayed like this? The city wall just rises from the ground like this?" Huo Qubing opened his mouth slightly, surprised by what was shown on the light screen video.
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"Beijing..." Zhu Yuanzhang thought about moving the capital again.
He had thought about moving the capital before, as he did not like Nanjing very much. Since Biao'er died after visiting various places to select the capital, he had not considered moving the capital again.
The fourth child chose Beijing in the future.
"Tell me honestly, do you think Beiping is your territory, your fiefdom, and therefore it will be safer?" Zhu Yuanzhang questioned his fourth son in front of him.
Zhu Di bowed his waist slightly and replied, "Of course not! Although I cannot understand the thoughts of that future man, I will never move the capital for such an unfounded reason! It must be for political considerations, for the subsequent development of the Ming Dynasty!"
"Humph." Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to pay attention to what he said and asked again: "Do you really think that moving to Beijing will be better for the development of the Ming Dynasty?"
"Yes." Zhu Di thought about how to answer, "What the light screen said is not wrong. It is connected to the desert in the north and controls the Yangtze River and Huai River in the south. The land of Youyan is indeed magnificent."
Zhu Yuanzhang thought of the previous dynasty, the later Qing Dynasty, and the idea of "respecting China".
Indeed, as an emperor, who wouldn't want to accept audiences from all directions and look down on the world?
Is this really the only place?
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[On July 2024, 7, Beijing's Central Axis was approved to be included in the World Heritage List. This is also the first time in the world that digital technology has been used throughout the entire process to participate in the World Heritage application.
After decades of repair and restoration, and the world's first participation in the entire process of World Heritage application using digital technology, Beijing's Central Axis is being inherited and continued with a new look.
What made the Beijing Central Axis successful in its application for World Heritage status? It was the great changes over seven centuries, the magnificent order of 7.8 kilometers, and the 15 heritage sites scattered all over the place. We started the long journey of applying for World Heritage status in 2012. World Cultural Heritage is the highest level of honor for material cultural heritage in the world. How to make foreigners understand the Beijing Central Axis is the most realistic problem facing us.
Unlike the Great Wall, Mogao Grottoes and Terracotta Warriors that are visible to the naked eye, the central axis of Beijing is very special. It is highly abstract, with harmony between heaven, earth and man, and the center of the country running through it. Although it is invisible to the naked eye, it is the core of the entire "ideal capital".
＜I still don’t have much experience with Beijing’s Central Axis. I strongly recommend that you go to the Beijing Planning Exhibition Hall. Once there, you will have a more intuitive and profound understanding of the Central Axis.＞
＜What foreigners may not understand the most is that since the Forbidden City is already a World Cultural Heritage, why do we need to apply for this central axis again?＞
＜Well…if I hadn’t watched the video, my previous understanding of the central axis was actually very superficial. I simply thought it was square and regular. But after watching the video and understanding it more, I found that it was completely different from what I thought. The central axis is really abstract, hahaha, and it is difficult for foreigners to understand.＞
＜We still have to apply for World Heritage status quickly, lest Xiao Han comes to steal [eat melons] again＞
＜What is left now is an incomplete palace. It is a pity that the city wall was demolished, but it is understandable.＞
＜Why do only Europe and the United States have the right to speak on world cultural heritage? They are the world?＞
＜Tsk tsk, applying for World Heritage status is so troublesome. If you look at it this way, many foreign countries may not be able to succeed. [Eating melon]＞
＜It seems that there are 59 items in my country that have been successfully nominated for World Heritage status? ＞
[Qin Shi Huang: Terracotta Warriors? Yeah, I have good vision.]
[Emperor Wu of Han Liu Che: Is China not the center of the world?]
[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: Although I had guessed it long ago, I still feel unhappy.]
[Ming Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang: Why are there only fifty-nine items...]
[Kublai Khan: What? A great country needs their approval before it can apply for World Heritage status?! These are my own things, don’t you understand?]
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I don’t have too many thoughts on applying for World Heritage status, but if compared with the previous dynasty... we can’t lose!
Liu Che wondered if there was anything from the Han Dynasty that could be preserved intact to later generations.
The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum are really unexpected.
"I used to laugh at the fact that the tomb of Qin Shi Huang was used as an exhibition by later generations, for everyone to visit and watch. Now I realize that we were too simplistic."
Liu Che seriously doubted the reason why later generations worshipped Qin Shihuang so much, mainly because Qin Shihuang really left any traces of his existence.
"Alas, my mausoleum was destroyed when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty... The mausoleum I built is not as big and mysterious as Qin Shihuang's..."
As for cultural heritage, what should we leave behind?
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"Whether they understand our culture or not is their business! Why do they blame us for not understanding it themselves?"
The people watching the light curtain actually couldn’t quite understand the efforts made by later generations in the video to apply for World Heritage status.
“Do we have to apply for World Heritage status? What are the benefits of successfully applying for World Heritage status?”
"Do we still need those foreigners, the foreign devils, to accept our culture?"
"What a joke! Our culture dates back thousands of years, and we are the only ancient civilization that has not been cut off. Those country bumpkins can't understand it because they have poor taste!"
Many people have expressed their opinions on Guangmu Comments, saying that most people in ancient China believed that they were the center of the world and that Chinese culture was the most advanced and powerful culture in the world.
Communicate with other cultures?
Haha, sorry, it seems that other cultures of the same period are not as powerful as ours.
It has always been our culture that has spread outward, and they have been influenced, absorbed and accepted our culture.
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