Wuhan's Creation of East Asian Cultural Capital ｜ Volunteers of Cultural Tourism leads tourists to study in Wuhan old buildings

The Yangtze River Daily Da Wuhan client August 9th "Listen to the explanation while walking, and understand the historical origin of many old houses, which is very interesting. Next time I want to follow the volunteer's line." Tourist Xiao Teng from Wuchang Say. On Saturday in early July, at the square in front of the Wuhan Art Museum, Xiao Teng and more than a dozen citizen tourists participated in the guidance of the city culture and historical architectural team of "studying the river bank" to help Wuhan create the East Asian cultural capital. With the opening of "Light and Full Team to the Future" in 2022, the Wuhan Cultural Tourism Volunteer Service Online Competition opened fiercely, and the Yangtze River Daily visited the city's cultural tourism volunteer service project. In 2022, Jiang'an District "Lifting the Banner Casting the Soul · Walking to the River Bank" urban culture and historical architectural guidance volunteer service project is designed to lead the general public and tourists into the river bank, enter the historical and cultural features, and use historical buildings along the way as the context. Lao Hankou's heavy modern business culture, Li dividing culture, folk culture and red culture, bring tourists to understand the cultural and ecological characteristics, cultural and creative industries and cultural civilization achievements of Wuhan. In the midsummer in July, the city culture and historical architectural guidance team of "studying the river bank" restarted the guided tour. Volunteers took citizens and tourists to explore the beautiful old buildings hidden in ordinary alleyways, and there were many historical stories of vast smoke.

Volunteer Chen Jiali: Old buildings in Wuhan are worth sharing

At 5 pm on Saturday, volunteer Chen Jiali took citizens and tourists from Zhongshan Avenue to Li Huangpi Road to explain the story behind the century -old building along the road. An explanation lasted for an hour and a half. Chen Jiali did not drink a sip, and her face was red and sweaty, but she still communicated with tourists.

Chen Jiali is an employee of a public institution. After coming to work in Wuhan, he is very interested in Hankou's old buildings. In 2017, the urban culture and historical guide service project of Jiang'an District launched a new recruitment. Chen Jiali joined the "Reading Jiang'an" urban culture and historical architectural guides team. "The volunteer team has a standardized explanation information, and also invited experts to compile localists to conduct interpretation information to check, train volunteers, so that the explanation can have a source, verification, and the history of the wild." Chen Jiali also purchased many books, historical books related to Wuhan for learning.

In a blink of an eye, Chen Jiali has persisted in volunteer services for 6 years. "There is a story behind the old buildings that make me feel interesting and impressive, so that I have the desire to communicate and share with you." The longer the time in Wuhan, the more Chen Jiali is on the city The deeper the feelings, "Wuhan has a deep history and culture that needs to be passed on."

Chen Jiali is conducting voluntary explanation services. Photo by Huang Lijuan

Volunteer Qiu Yijie: I want to tell you about the place of childhood life

"I grow up here, teach here, and have a deep fate with this history." Volunteer Qiu Yanjie is a high school teacher in Wuhan No. 16 Middle School, and Nanjing Road is a place where she was a child. Wuhan No. 16 Middle School is located between the old building groups. The school specially offers a "Red Architecture Tour" elective course. Qiu Yanjie is one of the teachers of the lecturers. "When the students walked next to the historical buildings of the century -old neighborhood, listening to the story behind, the shock of the soul is incomparable to the textbooks." Qiu Yijie is the first volunteer to recruit. She introduced that "reading the river bank" recruits young volunteers who are enthusiastic and interested in old buildings and urban history and culture every year, and systematically conduct courses in volunteer literacy training, guiding training and related historical buildings. As of now, more than 600 volunteers have signed up for "reading", and the team has expanded from a dozen to more than 70 people. It has carried out nearly 100 guided activities, theme lectures and service analysis and sharing sessions each year.

"Reading the river bank" is the story of walking while walking, and the old friends generally stroll Jiangcheng streets and taste historical and cultural. Qiu Yijie enjoyed this time with tourists, and there were different scenery throughout this historical feature area throughout the year. When the climate is cool, the volunteer explanation will be arranged in the morning; when the weather is hot, the explanation will be arranged until the summer heat is slightly dissipated; even when the rain is drizzle, the historical feature zone in the rain has a unique flavor. "There are often old fans to repeatedly check in." Qiu Yanjie said that the uncle and aunt in the old city are regulars, and the oldest is in his 70s. During Qiu Yijie's explanation, the elderly residents often interacted with her and shared the interesting things when she was a child. "These residents fans have provided us with a lot of story materials for us."

The "Reading Jiang'an" urban culture and historical architectural guides will also carry out three -phase event on August 13th, 20th, and 27th. Interested citizens can make an appointment and follow volunteers to listen to the story of Hankou's century -old building.

"Light up and full of Tianxing together with the future" 2022 Wuhan Cultural Tourism Volunteer Service Online Competition is ongoing. Through online competitions, a number of demonstrations of cultural tourism volunteer service projects will be discovered to ignite the volunteer city with professional forces. What kind of cultural tourism volunteer service items around you make everyone shine? Hurry up and register for the competition!

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(Reporter Huang Lijuan Hou Yuqian Correspondent Wu Traveling Wang Yi) Wang Yi)

【Edit: Zhang Wenhui】

【Manuscript Source: Changjiang Daily】

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