On January 16, the renovated Hongen Temple with a history of more than 700 years was opened by appointment. At that time, the permanent exhibition of the history of Hongen Temple, which is curated by using the space of the Mahavira Hall, will let the citizens see the multiple functional evolution of Hongen Temple in the past century. On January 18, the theme post office on the central axis of Beijing will be put into trial operation using the small space on the east side of the temple. So far, Hongen Temple has turned into the "Guanzhong" axis cultural museum, unveiling the mystery. Citizen tourists can make an appointment for the space activities they are interested in on the "Watching Service" applet.
On January 14, the public open day was held quietly by using the Temple of View and Book, which was opened in the Imperial Palace of Guannei. The city's folk products were invited to read incense, attracting nearly 800 visitors and gathering popularity. Every visitor who came here was amazed by what he saw. In the tall hall, a ladder seat is set up to the east, and book lovers in twos and threes are reading here. The LED screen above the seat is playing an antique picture. When the movable bookcase is pushed to the wall, the space inside the hall becomes the place for holding cultural activities.
The opposite of Guan · Shu Dian across the courtyard is to use the gate set in the Shanmen Dian to come here · Digital Art Museum. In the museum, the complete backbone structure of ancient buildings and the projection of walls and floors allow the audience to experience the integration of digital art and traditional culture in the original traditional buildings. The interactive technologies such as radar point and touch detection, dynamic capture and real-time generation ingeniously integrate traditional culture with modern digital art to create a rich and unique cultural exhibition experience.
The upcoming central axis themed post office is the first comprehensive postal cultural and creative service body with the central axis as the theme. It integrates comprehensive postal services, cultural and creative consumption, cultural exchanges, and exhibition experience. At the door, the green mailbox and the traditional green Erba bicycle used by the postman bring a strong postal style. In the store, a variety of stamp products and cultural and creative products have been put on the shelves. The "Magnificent Central Axis" raster postcard, Beijing Tower Memory postcard, mailbox shaped key chain, "Time Machine" refrigerator sticker for Beijing husband's car delivery, tea vat with old station sign pattern, etc. are all eye-catching. Even the drinks sold by the water bar in the store are also the only post office limited items: "Green Mail" takes avocado, kiwi fruit, yogurt and milk as the main raw materials, and "I send to the world" takes cherry oolong tea, grapes, cream, etc. as the main raw materials. The aroma fills the whole space.
Hongen Temple, which has a history of more than 700 years, is located 200 meters north of the Bell and Drum Tower, covering an area of 3326 square meters, with a total construction area of 2180 square meters. It has a profound historical and cultural heritage, and is known as the "key point of the dragon tail" on the central axis. In 2021, Hongen Temple will become the ninth batch of cultural relics protection units in Beijing, and the protection and activation of utilization will be started. At the end of June 2023, its protective repair will be completed. In November of the same year, Zhongzhou Jiacheng (Beijing) Urban Renewal Culture Development Co., Ltd. officially became the operating unit of Hongen Temple. It operates the central axis theme museum under the brand of "Guanzhong". According to the principle of "one policy for one occasion", it has found the right person to take charge of every space in the temple, and has planned seven new cultural and tourism scenes, which are now opening one after another, Constantly explore new models for the activation and utilization of cultural relics. On the eve of the Spring Festival, several spaces in the east wing of the hospital will also open cultural exhibitions themed with the Year of the Dragon.
In the Temple of View and Books, readers sit in twos and threes and enjoy reading.
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In 2021, Dongcheng District used digital technology to carry out a cultural relics "physical examination" of 58 cultural relics buildings. The Hongen Temple, which is close to the central axis and the bell tower, was listed as a cultural relic building with high safety risk level and needs to be repaired urgently in this cultural relics safety risk assessment. At the end of August 2022, Dongcheng District started the renovation project of Hongen Temple. After 10 months, the renovation of Hongen Temple's cultural relics was basically completed, showing three grand halls, a broad Xieshan Mountain, and simple and beautiful ticket windows. The repaired Hongen Temple has become another important cultural relic coordinate on the central axis after the Bell and Drum Tower, Yongding Gate and other cultural relics. (Li Yang)
