Knocking Open Doors of Siheyuan (part Two) | ||
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http://www.sina.com.cn 2003年08月10日01:20 北京娱乐信报 | ||
Beijing Siheyuan has a history of 800 years. Back inhistoryBeijingers built their houses beside wells and centeralleywayscalled ″Hutongs″. Residential homes were built with fourhousesforming a quadrilateral shape in a compound. At the center isanopen courtyar In Hua Xinmin's eyes Siheyuan are seen asvaluable as a carrier ofa culture. ″Beijing's Siheyuans are asvaluable as the ForbiddenCity. I want all of our visitors torealize how precious our culturereally is″ she said. Therenowned scholar Mr. Shu Yi is the son of the late famousChinesewriter Lao She. He describes his feelings about Siheyuan″the goodSiheyuan in Beijing must open their doors to the public.Withoutlooking at them you wouldn't have this feeling. So Isuggest thateveryone should learn about the real Siheyuan andlearn abouttheir value so that they are properly protected. ″ Followingwaves of city demolition and rebuilding work all theseyears onlya hundred thousand or so Siheyuans have survived. Manyscholars andexperts believe that this historic city is an integralentity. Theysaid the historic city can not be called a historiccity if only afew hundred compounds are preserved.Zheng Xiaoxie isa mr of theNational Committee of Cultural Relics. He views Siheyuanas ″theroot from where sprang the arteries and veins of thisancientcapital's architecture and they are the cells of thisancientcapital's planning and design.″ Just as the Chinese-born masterof architecture I.M.Pei pointedout Beijing is a whole piece ofart. Damaging any part of it meansdamaging the whole. UNESCOBeijing Office Director-General Mr. K.Matsuura has also been astrong supporter of the protection of OldBeijing. The latestnews is ″The Overall City Planning of Beijing″ willbe overhauledwithin this year. This has been written into thisyear's″Government Work Report.″ 留住四合院 四合院在北京已存在了近800年。古代北京人依据水井而聚居,他们在修房屋时留出的通道被称为“胡同”。居民们兴建的住宅通常由东西南北四面房屋合围成口字形,中心是种植树木花草的空阔的庭院,所以称为“四合院”。在今天仍在为人们所用,它所体现的人与自然和谐相处的哲学思想与现代建筑理念是一致的。 在华新民的眼里四合院好比是一种文化载体是非常珍贵的。她认为北京的胡同、四合院跟北京的故宫是一样珍贵的。 老舍先生的儿子、著名学者舒乙先生这样形容他对四合院的感受:打开大门给大家看,绝对是好东西!没看过不感觉啊,没有这种感情。我要提醒大家去了解真正的四合院,知道它的价值,从而保护它。 长期以来北京历经一次次城建拆迁,目前北京城仅剩下四合院大约十几万个。为此不少学者认为,古城是一个整体,仅仅保护下来几百个院子,古城将不成为古城!全国历史文化名城保护专家委员会副主任委员郑孝燮把四合院说成是“北京古都建筑文脉的根,古都规划之细胞”。 正如华裔建筑大师贝聿铭指出的:北京是个完整的艺术品,破坏任何一部分就是破坏全部。联合国教科文组织驻北京办事处代表穆卡拉先生也对保护老北京非常支持。 最新消息《北京城市总体规划》将在年内开始修编,这已写进今年的《政府工作报告》。
笑话段子、整蛊短语精彩无限 难以形容的开心感觉 | ||