（2）Let the students know something about Chinese cultural relics and how to protect them.

4. 文化意识（教师用书内容）

　（1）Let students know different cultural relics and have the sense of protecting cultural relics.

　（2）Encourage students to think of more ways to protect cultural relics.

【话题探究】

　　文物是人类在历史发展过程中遗留下来的遗物、遗迹。文物是祖先留给我们的无价之宝，是金钱买不到的。文物一旦损坏，就永远不能复原。没有众多的文物史迹，文明古国也就名存实亡，失去其传统的风采和内涵。所以，我们要好好爱护文物。

　　　　　　　　　　　Protection of Cultural Relics

The 1990s was a period when China made the largest investment and achieved the most remarkable success in the protection of cultural relics. During that period, the special subsidies appropriated by the Central Government for the protection of cultural relics in more than 1,000 projects totaled about RMB 700 million yuan. As a result, a large number of cultural relics have been saved from destruction. Prominent successes have been achieved in the maintenance and protection of historical sites such as the Potala Palace (Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region), the Kumbum Monastery (Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province), the Kizil Thousand-Buddha Cave (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region), the Longmen Grottoes (Luoyang City, Henan Province), the Yungang Caves (Datong City, Shaanxi Province), the Mountain Summer Resort (Chengde City, Hebei Province), and the Thatched Cottage of Tang Poet Du Fu (Chengdu City, Sichuan Province), arousing great attention both at home and abroad.

文物保护

上个世纪九十年代是中对文物保护进行大规模投资并取得了巨大成就的时期。在那个时期，中央政府为一千个文物保护工程拨专项资金总额大约七亿元。结果，大批濒临破坏的文物得到保护。在维护和保护历史古迹方面也取得了巨大成就，例如布达拉宫（西藏自治区拉萨市）、白居寺（青海省湟中县）、克孜尔石窟（新疆维吾尔自治区）、龙门石窟（河南省洛阳市）、云冈石窟（山西省大同市）、避暑山庄（河北省承德市）、杜甫草堂（四川省成都市）、这些都引起了国内外的广泛关注。

　　The protection of famous historical and cultural cities includes both the act of keeping the ancient buildings and historical sectors in their original state and the maintenance of the styles and features of the ancient cities. The ancient city of Lijiang in Yunan Province and the city of Pingyao in Shaanxi Province are two successful examples, which have been put on the UNESCO's World Cultural and Natural Heritage List.

著名历史文物的保护既包括要按照原来的状况保护古建筑和历史遗迹又要按古城的特点和风格进行维护。云南省的丽江和山西省的平遥就是两个成功的例子。这两个城市已被