Riding a donkey to build the Great Wall

1945 Japan surrendered and Tsinghua University moved back to Beiping. Liang Sicheng proposed that the China Architectural Society and Tsinghua University jointly set up the China Architectural Society, specializing in surveying and mapping of ancient buildings. Luo was chartered by Liang Sicheng to become a graduate student of China Institute of Architecture. At the same time, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Architecture in Tsinghua. Luo also assisted Liang Sicheng in compiling the Outline of National Important Cultural Relics Architecture. /kloc-books with more than 0/00 pages could only be mimeographed at that time, and Luo carved them on wax paper.

From 65438 to 0950, 27-year-old Luo was transferred to National Cultural Heritage Administration as the business secretary of the Cultural Relics Department, becoming the youngest expert on ancient architecture in the bureau. 1952, Guo Moruo proposed to develop the Great Wall, and Zheng Zhenduo, director of National Cultural Heritage Administration, handed over the task of "repairing the Great Wall" to Luo. This project lasted for decades, and the Great Wall became Luo's lifelong dream.

The Great Wall has experienced more than two thousand years of wind and rain erosion and man-made destruction, and there are not many intact paragraphs. He chose three key passages, namely Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan and Badaling, and made a hard field trip. He rides a donkey up the mountain every day and often sleeps in the grass with his clothes. Three months later, Luo came up with a plan to repair the Badaling Great Wall. Liang Sicheng read Luo's sketches during his illness and agreed with the idea of "repairing the old as the old" on the drawings. "The teacher's advice has guiding significance for my cultural relics maintenance work in the next few decades. He said that the maintenance of ancient buildings should be ancient, not all of them can be replaced with new bricks and stones, and cement can't be used ...' Sunset on the old base' is even more delicious. " 1953 On the National Day, the newly renovated Badaling Great Wall was opened to tourists, and Luo and his little donkey started a tour of Jiayuguan, Jinshanling and Mutianyu. Jinshanling Great Wall is a wall. Luo took a goat to move bricks on it. A goat can only carry two bricks at a time. He also climbed many dangerous places. "In some places, you can't walk on your feet. You have to use your hands and feet to get up. I almost fell to my death. "

1984, Deng Xiaoping wrote an inscription "Love my China, repair my Great Wall" to protect the Great Wall. 1985, Luo and several other experts drafted a report and declared the Great Wall a "world cultural heritage". At the end of that year, China formally joined the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. Until 2003, Luo, who was nearly eighty years old, led a delegation to Yumenguan in the west, visited the ruins of the Great Wall along the Silk Road, and crossed the "sea of death" Lop Nur. Luo ran for the Great Wall all his life and was called "the first person in Wan Li Great Wall".

Write to Zhou Enlai to protect the ancient city.

At the beginning of 1954, one day, Luo suddenly received a notice from Zheng Zhenduo, asking him to go to Beihai and Yuanmingyuan at once, sort out a complete information including surveying and mapping drawings, documents and photos of cultural relics, and publish it in the magazine "Cultural Relics Protection Reference" as soon as possible. Luo knows that protecting the old city of Beijing is a long and difficult battle. Liang Sicheng, his teacher, appealed at the beginning of the PLA's entry into the city that we must do our best to protect the ancient buildings in the old city. However, in the face of the vigorous economic construction boom and the subsequent political movement, the old city was demolished in a large area, which made both teachers and students feel heartache. On one occasion, a new building was built in Zhongnanhai, occupying the land of Yin Qing Pavilion. Yang, director of the General Office of the Central Committee, made a special request and asked Comrade National Cultural Heritage Administration to identify it first. On behalf of the Cultural Relics Bureau, Luo visited the pavilion and thought it was a precious cultural relic. If it must be dismantled, it is best to classify and number the objects and restore them in different places. This opinion was approved, and the Yin Qing Pavilion was finally moved to Taoranting Park for reconstruction, becoming the earliest ancient cultural relic in New China.

However, Beihai and Yuanmingyuan, which are equally precious, encountered a lot of troubles when it came to the demolition order. At that time, some leaders thought that to improve the traffic in Beijing, the roads must be straight and wide, and the Tuancheng blocked the roads and had to be demolished. Luo found Liang Sicheng to find a way. Liang Sicheng invited Soviet experts to visit Tuancheng, but it was no good to intercede. Finally, Zhou Enlai was shocked. He decided to move the northwest wall of Zhongnanhai to the south for several tens of meters. The planned road also went south, avoiding Tuancheng.

1966, the "Cultural Revolution" began, and the ancient buildings in Beijing were robbed again. The authorities ordered that the ruins of the ancient observatory in the southwest corner of Jianguomen need to be demolished in order to repair the subway. Luo, who has been criticized as "smelly Laojiu", was anxious to take a camera and surveying and mapping instruments to Jianguomen for surveying and mapping photography, and jointly drafted a report on the protection of the ancient observatory with experts from the Beijing Planetarium, and transferred the report to his desk in the name of "revolutionary masses". Zhou Enlai ordered the construction of a subway to bypass the ancient observatory, and earmarked a sum of money for the foundation reinforcement of the ancient observatory.

During the storm of the "Cultural Revolution", Luo tried his best to protect a number of ancient buildings from destruction, but more precious cultural relics were destroyed and demolished. He himself became the target of the rebels, because he wrote several letters to Zhou Enlai. The rebel found from Luo's file that Luo's father, Luo Shupei, was a battalion commander with two guns in the Jing army. Jiang Qing said that the old woman with two guns in the novel Red Rock was a bandit-the two guns were randomly linked, and Luo was beaten into the son of a bandit and sent to the May 7th cadre school in Xianning, Hubei Province for labor reform.

Protect ancient buildings and the Great Wall.

The author of "Biography of Luo" thinks that Luo's contribution to the protection of ancient buildings in China is no less than his teachers Liang Sicheng and Lin: "Everyone wants to talk about it because he has too many auras, but Mr. Luo doesn't. In this era, many people will' selectively forget' and hope that we can remember Luo Lao for a long time. "

Luo Wenzhe seems to be able to shrug off this statement before his death. He once wrote a sentence in calligraphy and wrote a poem by Liang Sicheng:

Climb the mountain first, how dare you pretend to be a teenager?

I'm afraid I'll fall behind and push forward desperately.

In his later years, Luo, as described in the poem, ran around like a young man and refused to stop for a moment. Luo is different from Liang Sicheng in the strategy of promoting cultural protection: Liang is crying, while Luo agrees with the way of government-led, expert consultation and public participation, and strives to promote the declaration of more "historical and cultural cities" and "world cultural heritage", and thinks that "protecting one more is better than not protecting one". Ma Bingjian, a disciple of Luo, said that old people sometimes have to attend two meetings in the morning, and the telephone at home keeps ringing all day. The people who invited him to the meeting "half respected his opinion, and the other half just listened and fixed it." After the meeting, Luo sometimes lamented Ma Bingjian: "I was taken as a cover."

He still has a lot of helplessness and regrets-the application for the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the application for the Shu Road and the statue of Liang Sicheng in Nara, Japan are the three things that Luo wanted to do most before his death. He always remembers Liang Sicheng's tears when he tore down the wall of the old city of Beijing: "Tearing down the wall is like peeling my skin and pumping my blood." /kloc-one day in 0/969, Luo passed Xizhimen and was shocked to see scaffolding set up on the rostrum. Upon inquiry, it was learned that Xizhimen Wengcheng was listed as the object of "breaking the capitalism" and was to be demolished. Luo had no choice but to shoot with a camera every day and watch the tall buildings become ruins. At that time, Liang Sicheng had been branded as a "reactionary academic authority", and many friends and students avoided it for fear of being implicated. Luo went to the hospital to visit Liang Sicheng, and they were speechless.

At the beginning of 20 12, No.24 courtyard of Beizongbu Hutong was also demolished, which was the former residence of Liang Sicheng and Lin. Luo is still chanting in his hospital bed. He originally thought that the purpose of demolishing the house was to build Liang Sicheng Memorial Hall on the original site.