| China has been acknowledged as one of the most distinguished civilized nations in the world with thousands of historical relics representing its long standing culture. How to protect these excellent material civilizations has a profound and positive impact on passing on splendid Chinese history and culture, witnessing historical development of mankind, promoting unity of different nationalities and integrity of China, strengthening national confidence and cohesiveness and promoting socialistic ethnics. Hence, since the founding of People's Republic of China, various-level relics preservation and management institutions from central governments to local authorities have been established to protect Chinese relics and heritage and to promote Chinese culture. Cultural Relics of National Importance under the Protection of the State are"those units with significant cultural, artistic and scientific values which are chosen from provincial, municipal and county relics preservation institutions by the Relics Administrative Department of State Council or defined directly as National Relics Preservation Units and proposed to State council for sanction."With the case study of stone inscriptions of, through the interprepation of relevant laws and based on adequate historical documents , this paper makes analysis of relevant data, defines relevant concepts of National Cultural Relics Preservation Units and finally figures out their historical networks. The paper also makes scientific categories of types of National Cultural Relics Preservation Units and discusses their protection scopes, significances and effectsInscribed on the cliff of the east bank of the Songhua River near the southern part of the Jilin-Fengman Road in the Asha Village, Jiangnan County, Fengman District, Jilin City, the Ashgada Cliffside Inscription, 15 kilometers from the center of Jilin City, is the historical evidence that the Ming Dynasty ruled the Northeast China. The Ashgada Cliffside Inscription records the three-time ship-building history at the bank of the Songhua River, which was ordered by Liu Qing, military chief of commission of Eastern Liao, during Yong Le (1403-1424), Hong Xi (1425), and Xuan De (1426-1435). It is of great importance to the study of the history of Eastern China frontier and the ship-building of Jilin and to the safeguarding China's territorial sovereignty both historically and realistically.In 1961, Jilin People's Committee designated the Ashgada Cliffside Inscription as the first important cultural relic sites of Jilin province, and in 2006, it was listed as cultural relic sites under state protection. There are a pavilion, a tower and a museum, and they are Ash Pavilion, Cliffside Tower, and Historical Museum of Ship-building Factory of Ming and Qing Dynasty in Jilin. This place is the origin of"Ancient Ship-building Factory", on which the ship-building factory of Qing Dynasty was built. Just like the saying"Building a city with wood, and living along the river."The Cliffside Inscription, Cliffside Tower, and Historical Museum of Ship-building Factory of Ming and Qing Dynasty mark the birth of Ula city (Manchu language meaning: along the river) and the birth of Jilin City, which is also the mark of the beginning of Jilin's history. As the cultural heritage of city type, the Ashgada Cliffside Inscription is the civilization treasure created by people for hundreds of thousand s of years, on which we can see the national cultural code of a country. And the Cliffside Inscription implies the passion of the most ancient and sincere caused by the awareness of life and passes the real and ancient emotion course in living. Therefore, it has the characteristics of uniqueness, irreplaceability and unreoccurrencability, which is the product of the selection of natural evolution, accumulation and choice of human society. The exploitation of Ashgada Cliffside Inscription is the effective operational means of the aggregate development of Regional Economic and the important way to improve city modernization and internalization, as well as to strengthen radiation power abroad and influence. Influenced by the Ashgada Cliffside Inscription, Jilin City is denominated by the State Department as"The Chinese Historical and Cultural City", First-Grade Open City and one of the 32 largest cities all over the country. In addition, Jilin City is titled Charming City of China, China's Best Tourist City, Nationally Designated Garden City, National Advanced City of Creating Civilized City, and The Famous City Most Worthwhile to Be Introduced to the World, a Charming City by CCTV, and The Most Suitable City for Building Factories in China by Forbes. The history and culture influenced the city in various fields deeply, such as social economy, urban construction, and spiritual civilization.The cultural heritage of city type, the Ashgada Cliffside Inscription as the miniature and quintessence of historic and cultural city of Jilin, reflects the life-force and creativity of Chinese nation and the intellectual achievements of Chinese nation. It plays an important historical role to the spiritual civilization of whole nation. The Ashgada Cliffside Inscription is propitious to make a study of historical development of Jilin City, and to show the unique traditional cultural view with its profound historical ground, and to provide or participate constructing suitable humanistic environment of developing and existing of life. It can protect people's emotion and inner feelings from destroying. The Ashgada Cliffside Inscription can help tracing back the intelligence and creativity of our ancestor, exploring the history and outlook of Chinese civilization, uplifting national will and boosting national spirit. Managing properly the distinctive culture, and the irreplaceable esthetic interest and taste, we can create our city brand, promote the tourism and accelerate the process of building a strong tourist country. All the above mentioned can increase urban development ability, and form citizen's ideas about protecting urban cultural heritage, and these are of great importance to Jilin City both at present and in the future. |