Wuyi Mountain is one of the world's cultural and natural heritage sites. In the strange landscape, Zhu Zi's science is like active living water, which is still flowing after more than 800 years.
Zhu Xi Garden, also known as Wuyi Jingshe, is an important place for the Zhu Xi School to carry out academic research and educational activities. It was here that Zhu Xi completed his important masterpiece "Annotations to the Four Books and Chapters and Sentences". After that, the "Annotations on the Collection of Chapters and Sentences of the Four Books" was used as the standard answer to the questions in the imperial examination, and it had a far-reaching impact.
The bubbling "spring" of the cultural context is inseparable from the protection of cultural heritage. In October 1998, when Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, was investigating in Nanping City, Fujian Province, he specially inspected the Kaoting Academy that was being rebuilt. This academy is the place where Zhu Xi wrote and lectured in his later years. Knowing that Nanping not only preserved relevant historical materials, but also established the Zhuzi Culture Research Association, focusing on inheritance, protection and promotion of Zhuzi culture, Xi Jinping said earnestly: "You have these cultural relics and historical materials, and we must strengthen protection and inheritance." ”
On December 1, 1999, Wuyi Mountain, as a world cultural and natural heritage, was officially included in the World Heritage List by UNESCO. UNESCO has positioned Wuyi Mountain as the cradle of post-Confuciusism (Zhu Zili). Xi Jinping, then acting governor of Fujian Province, sent a letter of congratulations.
Culture is like water, infiltrating silently, connecting the past, present and future of a nation. In March 2021, on the bank of Jiuqu River in Wuyi Mountain, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was inspecting Fujian, walked into Zhu Xiyuan. Reading the essence of culture that has been inherited for thousands of years, General Secretary Xi Jinping said meaningfully, "If there is no Chinese civilization of 5,000 years, where is there any Chinese characteristics?" If it weren't for Chinese characteristics, how could we have such a successful path of socialism with Chinese characteristics today? ”
Ask the canal to be as clear as promised, for there is a source of living water. The cultural heritage of the galaxy is like the source of water, nourishing the Chinese civilization endlessly. The historical and cultural heritage retains the vicissitudes of the glorious past, witnesses the thriving present, and also indicates the future of great rejuvenation.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Editor: Xiao Jinlan