It is of great significance to invite cultural relics home.
▲ On February 5, Cao Peixin, Vice Dean and Professor of School of Journalism of Communication University of China, made a speech. Photo/Wang Yuanzheng, a reporter of Beijing News
Beijing News (reporter Ke Rui) On February 5, 2024, as the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon is approaching, Civilization magazine held a seminar and dialogue on "the impact and return of Chinese overseas cultural relics" in Beijing. Many experts discussed the theme of "welcoming the Spring Festival and returning home happily, celebrating the Spring Festival and caring about cultural relics that have been wandering abroad since then".
At the seminar, Cao Peixin, vice president and professor of the School of Journalism of Communication University of China, said that the outflow and return of cultural relics are two dynamic processes, and there is a longer process that may stay in a certain place. In the process of staying overseas, cultural relics should be well protected first. Recently, the theft scandal of collections from the British Museum in Britain was exposed, which affected the global nerves, and also warned that overseas cultural relics need professional protection urgently.
Wang Xiaoyong, a researcher of Shaanxi Academy of Social Sciences, said that throughout the 19th century, there was a cultural relics craze and a museum craze in western countries. Under such a trend, cultural relics in China, including those in Shaanxi, Gansu and other northwest regions, lost very quickly and suffered serious losses. Now, it is of great significance for us to overcome various difficulties and invite cultural relics home.
In Cao Peixin's view, the return of cultural relics is actually a very good topic or perspective for telling Chinese stories. The story of cultural relics also provides a very good topic for overseas communication. "The return of cultural relics is not only a cultural event, but also an economic event, and also a communication event. Its flow process is a story telling process."
Cao Peixin believes that all cultural relics are carriers of historical stories. In this way, the long return process will not be so long; On the other hand, the return of cultural relics is of great value. This process of cultural relics return can become a process with rich educational significance.
In the view of Gao Yang, director of the Center for International Communication and Research on Chinese Brand, South Asia and Southeast Asia of Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Chinese cultural relics are themselves a carrier of Chinese culture, which can be regarded as a medium, and this medium has the value of crossing time and space. "The process of returning cultural relics is an event in itself. If this event can be highly noticed by the media and effectively spread, after it gets the attention of the public, then the process of returning cultural relics, or the historical process, can actually stimulate positive emotions among the public, such as self-confidence, such as patriotism, such as striving for strength It helps to promote the spread of Chinese culture to the outside world, so the return of cultural relics is also an opportunity for culture to go to sea. "
