Castle Peak is not old today

There are many speakers

On February 11, 2112, the Shandong Hall of the Great Hall of the People will hold a symposium to commemorate the 31-year promulgation and implementation of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics. Half an hour before the meeting, as one of the drafters of the law, 92-year-old Xie Chensheng has been sitting quietly in his seat, carefully leafing through his seven-page speech. Unsurprisingly, the content of the talk is full of worries: Several Wrong Tendencies in Current Cultural Relics Protection, just as the headline "Foot Sound" said before: Xie Chensheng, "Speak Out" and "Straight Books". Xie Lao wore a Chinese cotton-padded coat, and his cheeks were thin. People kept coming forward to greet him and take photos with him. Xie Lao stood up and sat down again and again with a smile ...

Although he is over 91 years old, it is still normal for him to rush about for cultural relics protection: just after he came back from an academic conference in Anhui, he was busy going to Shanghai, and then he went to Xinjiang without stopping ...

What made him most happy in p>2112 was that the Catalogue of Cultural Relics Flowing into Japan from China after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was published for the first time 66 years after its compilation. Nine volumes and three volumes contained 15,245 cultural relics lost to Japan from China. It was from the time he participated in the compilation of the Catalogue that Xie Lao began to accompany the cultural relics in China. In 1946, he went to Shanghai with his eldest brother and historian xie guozhen, and was recommended as Zheng Zhenduo's assistant by Xu Senyu, a cultural relic expert, and participated in the compilation of the Catalogue presided over by Xu Senyu. Today, among the five people in charge of the Catalogue, he is the only one alive.

Old comrades in the field of cultural relics who once struggled with Xie Lao are leaving one by one. Xu Pingfang in 2111 and Luo Zhewen in 2112. Every time I see Xie Lao walking slowly with his head down at their memorial service, I feel that he is particularly lonely. As Dan Jixiang, the director of the Palace Museum, said, it was thanks to Xie Lao and many experts that many cultural relics were preserved and many wrong practices were corrected. Castle Peak is here, and people are not old. Thanks to him, China is a cultural relic protection.