Long-standing culture is carried on thousands of years of cultural heritage, such as customs, traditional performing arts, ancient sites, ancient buildings and so on.
Taking architecture as an example, modern buildings mostly use reinforced concrete, which has poor seismic performance, while ancient buildings in China are mostly wood structures, which make them have stronger seismic performance.
Behind this architectural style is China's traditional cultural concept of "combining rigidity with softness".
For example, Old Town of Lijiang was basically intact after the earthquake of magnitude 7, and was later named as a World Heritage Site.
Another example is the old house and block of Huoshan Road in Hongkou District, Shanghai, which is the historical block of Shanghai 12 and the witness of the friendship between China people and Jewish people.
This place has been protected, and people all over the world will gradually know that when German fascists brutally slaughtered Jews, when many countries refused to accept Jewish refugees fleeing in all directions, the people of China, ravaged by Japanese imperialism, also accepted more than 30,000 Jews in a friendly way.
On the contrary, if the carrier carrying historical information dies, the historical culture it carries will inevitably be diluted or die.
The significance of preserving cultural heritage is also related to the future.
To understand cultural heritage, we must understand the profound historical and cultural meaning behind it and cultivate new modern culture on the basis of tradition.
This "new" culture, which germinates on the basis of historical and cultural traditions, has more foundation, more inside information, more characteristics and more vitality.
Social civilization needs metabolism, but renewal cannot abandon history, but develops on the basis of history and breeds new things from the old environment.