About 500,000 city bricks are back!Nanjing's "granules return to warehouses, guardian city walls" project won award

On September 5th, on the occasion of "China Charity Day" and "Jiangsu Charity Week", the sixth "Jiangsu Charity Award" commendation conference was held in Nanjing. The "granular return warehouse, guardian city wall" project jointly organized by the Nanjing Ancient Capital City Wall Protection Foundation and Nanjing City Wall Protection Management Center won the sixth "Jiangsu Charity Award" and the "Most Influential Charity Project" in Jiangsu Province.

Since 2016, the project has started, setting off the wave of protecting the city wall

The reporter learned that Nanjing City Wall is the longest, largest, and best preserved city wall in the world, and is a precious historical and cultural heritage of human beings. Due to historical reasons, there are many city bricks scattered, and these city bricks have deep historical and cultural connotation and inestimable cultural relic information value. In order to effectively strengthen the protection of cultural relics in Nanjing City Wall, the Nanjing Ancient Capital City Wall Protection Foundation and Nanjing City Wall Protection Management Center jointly launched the "granular return to the warehouse, guardian city wall" activity in 2016. The event brings together multiple social forces such as citizens, caring enterprises, and social groups, and set off a wave of active recycling city brick and protecting city wall heritage.

It is reported that as of the end of 2021, the project received more than 500 effective clues and recovered about 500,000 yuan in city bricks. In addition to the provincial charity award won this time, the project has also been selected as an excellent innovation case of Nanjing propaganda and ideological and cultural work, the first batch of grass -roots party building brands in Nanjing propaganda cultural system; Won the most beautiful public cultural space award for the "2020 'Beautiful Life' Public Cultural Space Innovation Design Contest" and the Baijia Public Cultural Space Award.

The person in charge of the project told reporters that since its launch in 2016, the "granules return to the warehouse, guardian city wall" project has gradually formed the target of the Nanjing city wall cultural heritage value dissemination, the flow of city bricks recovery as the means, and the brick set display is the highlight, and many parties are the highlights. The innovative model of the Nanjing City Wall Cultural Heritage Cultural Heritage Protection of Social Power. This project is not only an innovative channel for the public to participate in cultural relics, but also allows the public to see the breadth and possibility of charity work.

There are many senses of people who have emerged, and love broadcasts the whole city

Since the launch of the "Person Return to Warehouse" project, citizens have scrambled to provide clues, and many touching deeds have emerged. For example, a 90 -year -old Grandma Xie Xie, in order to complete the last wishes of his wife, Professor Li Lian of Nanjing University, he heard that the event immediately donated dozens of city bricks collected by the home. The bricks are collected and collected; Wu Wenxing, an ancient uncle who is suffering from cancer, is in order to protect charity in the city brick. With the willpower of the old railway soldiers, he often runs on the demolition site to find the figures scattered city bricks and assist in assistance More than 40,000 yuan in city bricks ...

"The 'granular returning warehouse' project linked the connection between the nostalgia and Jinling Wenmai of the public in the public, which moved the project a more movement, made the cold and sturdy city brick an additional temperature, and made Nanjing citizens right. The love of cultural heritage sow the city, "said the person in charge.

It is reported that after being awarded the "Jiangsu Charity Award" and "Most Influential Charity Project", the "Granules Return" project was also selected by Jiangsu Province to participate in the "Chinese Charity Award" selection. Great affirmation and encouragement.

The person in charge of the project said: "Recycling about 500,000 city bricks in 6 years is not only a staged dazzling result, but also the cornerstone of future recycling work. More enthusiastic citizens and caring companies actively participate in the protection and charity work of the cultural heritage of Nanjing City Wall. "

Each Mingcheng brick is a historical mark. Picture of Nanjing City Wall

In addition, the reporter learned that the basic principles of the protection of cultural relics in my country must protect the original and historical information of the existing objects. This means that the best way to protect and repair Nanjing City Wall is to repair it with the original city brick. Therefore, the large number of Mingcheng bricks recovered by the project not only greatly protects the renovation of Nanjing City Wall, but also protects the "integrity" and "authenticity" of the Nanjing City Wall.

Nanjing Morning Post/Ai Nanjing reporter Zhong Min

Correspondent Zhao Mengwei

Intern editor: Gong Yuwei

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