the old Ji'nan railway station is a typical German car designed by the famous German architect Herman Fischer at the end of the nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century Stand building. It was the largest railway station in Asia, boarded the architecture textbooks of Tsinghua and Tongji, and was listed as the first station in the Far East by the "Far East travel" published by western Germany after the war.
original title: rebuilt Ji'nan old train station: historical relics can not be copied and saved back to
20 years ago, the old railway station, which was dismantled in Ji'nan, is a long pain in this historic and cultural city. The Gothic old building, built more than 100 years ago, is known as "the world's excellent traffic architecture in the early twentieth Century, and it was a architecture comparable to the famous railway station in Europe at that time." After the demolition, there had been a local reconstruction motion. Recently, the local media has launched a new round of investigation and voting, which seems to make up for that regret.
the rough demolition at the beginning proved to be an ignorant and short-sighted major mistake. If you want to rebuild it out of nostalgia or in remembrance, it's understandable. However, historical buildings are not renewable. Facing the damaged buildings, we can uphold the old principles and make a certain degree of repair, but it is still a different nature from the reconstruction of a "fake" old station.
no matter from necessity or possibility, the old Ji'nan railway station has been dismantled. The proposed site is not the original site, the details of the design and the detailed construction drawings can not be examined. Only modern materials and processes can be used. Even if a building that is the same as the original, can it be a "original taste"? It's just like the old station staff said, "what's the point of" demolished the truth and built a fake "? It's a fake. The loss of cultural significance is the most important thing to do to console oneself.
such a redevelopment trend is also strongly opposed by industry experts. A few years ago, the famous scholar, Xie Chen, criticized this style and strongly opposed the reconstruction of the old railway station in Ji'nan: "the twenty-second article of the law on the protection of cultural relics": the immovable cultural relics have been completely destroyed, the site protection should be carried out, and the original site should not be rebuilt. In principle, this is the case. I do not advocate reconstruction because it is not only a form, but also uses the original technology, structure and materials. Even now the house of Artemis has to be rebuilt, which is neither in line with the principles of law nor in conformity with the principles of heritage preservation. The wind of reconstruction should be a moment. "
protection of historical relics is important, but what is more indispensable is the reverence for the history that the ancestors once walked. Not paying close attention to the cultural blood behind the historical relics, demolitions and reconstruction is actually a way to show the power of contemporary people's culture. Technically, in the future, as long as there are blueprints, what kind of buildings can be rebuilt, but the history and culture they carry on are hard to reproduce. Cultural heritage and historical accumulation have their own footprints, not formed overnight. If you think that a huge sum of money and a pile of building materials will be able to connect history and pursue cultural context, cultural relics will become a plaything of modern people. If so, even if Old Summer Palace and Fang Fang are standing there again, are they still themselves? Do you still have the air of the year?
protection of cultural relics is behind the history of fear, not due to technological progress and arrogance blindly, but to follow the inherent logic of cultural construction. There is little sense in the discussion on the reestablishment of the old railway station in Ji'nan, and the proportion of opposition and consent. Let the public vote participate in the process of popularizing history and culture and enhancing awareness of protection. It is better to build a site protection monument in the original site, which shows that future generations should not make the same mistake again.