Preserving historic buildings Currently, some cities are facing the situation whether to preserve the old, historic buildings or to destroy them and replace them with modern buildings In my opinion, a wise solution to this dilemma depends on the circumstances Firstly, it is obviously that the historic buildings are valuable and deserve being preserved The old buildings are an important aspect of the traditional culture; they represent the history of a country or a culture For example, the Forbidden City, lying in the center of Peking, is one of the representatives of the long history of China Every day, visitors from all over the world go there to have a look on the palaces where Emperors lived thousands of years ago These kind of historic buildings reminder people the history, and is reasonable to be well preserved Secondly, some historic buildings are excellent textbooks on architecture, and need good care One cannot imagine how clever the ancient architects were; they invented so many artful techniques and adopted these on their works Every ancient building that lasts till today is a good example for certain architectural technique One will be surprised to know that some of the ancient stone bridges in China have last for thousands of years They are strong enough to suffer the ages What is more, some of the techniques have been lost and people can no longer reproduce such bridges The current architects realize that even with the modern techniques, people can hardly build as a lasting stone bridges as those ancient ones These kind of historic buildings are supposed to be preserved However, there are some exceptions In some historic town in China, there are a lot of similar historic buildings These cities cannot develop themselves any more because there no more space, unless they destroy some of the historic buildings As a case in point, in my hometown, there used to be a large amount of historic housings, each of which is hundreds of years old In this case, the best solution is, as the government has done, to preserve a few of these buildings as representations, and destroy the others in order to build new ones By this means, we not only preserve the history but also develop ourselves In sum, people should preserve the historic buildings But we should leave enough space for the development of modern buildings