Whoever masters the past will master the future

Author:China News Weekly Time:2022.08.16

"To manage the history of the world

Or start from global interests

Go to manage those great human heritage

In actual operation and ideology, it is

It's hard to do "

Since joining the "Convention on Protecting the World Culture and Natural Heritage" (hereinafter referred to as the World Heritage Convention) in 1985, the enthusiasm of "applying heritage" in various parts of China is very high. As of July 2021, there are as many as 56 World Heritage Sites that have been successfully declared nationwide in the country. Essence The "World Heritage Heritage Fever" from this greatly promoted the protection of nature, culture, and even intangible cultural heritage -although these have always existed, they are regarded as the "heritage" that needs to be protected. An important change of consciousness.

But this does not mean what we really understand what the "World Heritage" means. For many people, the number of "World Heritage" helps to reflect a cultural national pride, such as some kind of honor. Culture and natural landscape can be selected, and once the "World Heritage" logo is crowned, the value will rise. The powerful economic effect is one of the driving drivers of "application" and inheritance protection in various places.

World heritage is actually far more than that. The UNESCO, which spawned the World Heritage Site, originated from the reflection on the Second World War, and the dream of peace: On the ruins of the war, many people of insight believe If misunderstandings between nation -states are not stopped, this may destroy the civilization itself we cherish. From 1953 to 1961, Dag Hama Husheld, who was the Secretary -General of the United Nations, talked about the United Nations that the establishment of this organization was not to take us to heaven, but to prevent us from going to hell.

The mission of UNESCO is not just to promote the development of the cultural and educational world of various countries, but because people realize on the ruins of war that after experiencing so many disasters, to protect peace, it is necessary to promote different cultures and different countries. Communication between. Only when everyone gradually realizes that we are a member of the community of human civilization, can we prevent greater disasters from occurring and rebuild a new world order.

To do this is not just to rebuild the ruins and cultural relics destroyed by the war, but more importantly, "the management of the past itself" -thebarians to recover and show their amazing value through the miracles worth cherished. Come to "manage the future" carefully. The phrase "whoever masters the past" is the motto of Julian Huxley, the first director of the UNESCO. In essence, this is actually a utopian, a vision that needs to exclude countless reality obstacles. Huxley himself knows that he has said: "UNESCO cannot change a political peace rabbit from a hat of culture and science." Doctrine, but if not, it would not be so excited at the beginning.

This is not just about talking, because what kind of value of a site has, how to make people realize its true value, how to protect and manage it, there are countless work to do, otherwise it is like the archeology of the time at that time. What the scientist said, the monuments may be just "a bunch of inexplicable ruins." Falling in reality, it is usually possible to face the fierce disputes, the contradictions of protection and tourism development, and where the indispensable technology and funds come from.

The "World Heritage Convention" passed in 1972 marks the victory of the new concept: the world is a closely related community of human civilization. Therefore, all heritage should be managed by a worldist organization. In any area, they belong to all people all over the world. " The concept of "World Heritage" itself is a very successful creativity. As a cultural relic protection system, it combines dreams with reality, universal abstract concepts and global protection campaigns, etc., so as to move towards that peaceful dreams into a big one. step.

However, UNESCO cannot effectively manage such huge transactions. Even if it is possible, this will cause the sharp expansion of its own bureaucratic organizations. The only way is to face reality and let the country apply and manage. The final result may run counter to the original intention: those world heritage was once regarded as the "super national heritage" of the world, even if the country is located, it cannot be owned by ourselves, just like we all believe that the Taliban has no right to destroy the Bamiyan Buddha, but gradually gradually gradually gradually, but gradually gradually gradually. The world heritage may in turn becoming a useful tool for the establishment of national culture self -confidence and pride.

It is no wonder that after experiencing a lot of such disputes, Lyan Mesque said in "The Future on the Ruins" and said: "When conducting a work related to cultural production like world heritage research, we should Learn some political science, "after sorting out these issues, she found that" to manage the history of the world, or to manage those great human heritage from global interests, it is difficult to do in actual operation and ideology. I arrived. "

The reality is that there is no way for any kind of protection concept: the so -called "protection" does not allow a cultural relic there to not let anyone touch it. In fact, only people continue to contact and understand it. Protect it well. In this sense, "protection" itself also requires sustainable development, and one of the best ways is to promote tourism to connect culture and development. This may not be a problem in half a century ago, but nowadays, too many tourists have caused damage to world heritage like Venice. It seems that the reason why this is why is because the concept of World Heritage is too successful. Not only did tourists come, but after creating such a huge income, it inevitably became a capitalized commodity. For politicians in various countries, "World Heritage" is an important symbol and can bring considerableness to considerableness. The soft power, as for the controversial cultural heritage ownership, itself is a contention for cultural diplomacy and recognition of international recognition. Although the sites that are included in the list have indeed internationally recognized, the concepts such as "human community and a worldist" have long been left out.

The reality is that politicians are not interested in the protection of the inheritance itself, but that they involve too many important benefits; experts do not always surpass them, and they are likely to only represent their own national field. As the sarcasm of this book, in the end, UNESCO often has to face "some of the work tasks of each other: focus on science, ignore religion; focus on protection, ignore politics; focus on technical rule, ignore global peace dreams." However, no matter what the original dream is, to make these world heritage properly protected, it is not only necessary to achieve cooperation from various countries, but also very important.

In the face of a world that is not perfect and constantly changing, there is no doubt that no ideal can be realized. The internationalist Gilbert Mo Lei has cleverly predicted that this is destined to be "puzzling success and failure." Perhaps over time, its failure is more exposed to the world, but as long as you imagine that if there is no world heritage project, the world will be like, and we will know how successful it has achieved. No one can deny this: if we cannot manage these pasts, then our future will definitely be different.

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