The significance of national treasure

All countries in the world have their own national treasures, some are rare animals and some are precious plants; Some are ancient cultural relics, some are ancient buildings; Some are jewels and works of art, and some are literary masters. These national treasures are specially protected by the host country. Most of them are priceless and become the pride and symbol of the country.

1982165438+1October19The Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Cultural Relics, which was adopted and promulgated at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth NPC, stipulates: "Important revolutionary documents and manuscripts with historical, artistic and scientific values are ancient.

According to the classification standard of cultural relics collection, cultural relics collection is divided into precious cultural relics and general cultural relics, among which precious cultural relics are divided into first-class cultural relics, second-class cultural relics and third-class cultural relics. Those with particularly important historical, artistic and scientific values are listed as first-class cultural relics.

Because there are no unified operating rules yet. The practice of each ancient book collection unit is different. Taking Shanghai Library as an example, rare books with great academic and artistic value are listed as first-class cultural relics. Rare books with small circulation and important academic and artistic value are classified as second-class cultural relics; The rest of the rare books are listed as third-class cultural relics. Ordinary ancient books are classified as general cultural relics.

It is reported that National Cultural Heritage Administration is currently re-establishing the grading standards for cultural relics collections, and ancient books are also within the grading scope.