As of the end of 2016, my country has 39 projects selected for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List (including the "List in Urgent Need of Protection"), and it is also the country with the largest number of world intangible cultural heritages in the world. .
List of Representative Works of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage:
Adopted in 2001: Kun Opera;
Adopted in 2003: Guqin Art;
Adopted in 2005: Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam art, Mongolian long-melody folk songs;
Adopted in 2009: Chinese sericulture and silk weaving skills, Fujian Nanyin, Nanjing Yunjin, Anhui rice paper, Guizhou Dong songs, Guangdong Cantonese opera, "Gesar" epic, Zhejiang Longquan celadon, Qinghai Regong art, Tibetan opera, Xinjiang "Manas", Mongolian Houmai, Gansu Hua'er, Xi'an drum music, Korean peasant music and dance, calligraphy, seal cutting, paper-cutting , woodblock printing, traditional wood structure construction techniques, Dragon Boat Festival, Mazu beliefs and customs;
Adopted in 2010: Peking Opera, traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.
Adopted in 2011: Shadow Puppetry.
Adopted in 2013: Abacus.
Adopted in 2016: Twenty-four solar terms.
List of intangible cultural heritages in urgent need of protection:
Inscribed in 2009: Qiang and Li traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery techniques, and traditional Chinese wooden arch bridge construction techniques;
Inscribed in 2010: Xinjiang’s Maixirefu, Fujian’s Chinese watertight bulkhead ship manufacturing technology and Chinese movable type printing.
Inscribed in 2011: the Imakan rap of the Hezhen ethnic group.
List of Outstanding Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage:
Inscribed in 2012: Fujian Puppetry Inheritor Training Plan. Extended information
According to the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Law of the People's Republic of China": Intangible cultural heritage refers to various traditional cultures that are passed down from generation to generation by people of all ethnic groups and regarded as part of their cultural heritage. expressions, as well as the objects and places associated with traditional cultural expressions.
At present, with the economic globalization and social modernization, the living environment of my country's cultural heritage is gradually deteriorating, and the current status of protection is worrying. In order to further strengthen the protection of my country's cultural heritage, inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and promote the construction of advanced socialist culture, the State Council decided that starting from 2006, the second Saturday of June every year will be my country's "Cultural Heritage Day."
On December 23, 2017, Minister of Culture Luo Shugang made a report on the work of cultural heritage by the State Council at the 31st meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress. The report disclosed that currently, projects such as the Grand Canal and the Silk Road have been included in the World Heritage List, and the total number of world heritage sites in my country has reached 52, ranking second in the world.
The abacus, the twenty-four solar terms, and traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture have all been selected into the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage. The total number of items selected into the list of intangible cultural heritage in my country has reached 39, ranking first in the world. In the past five years, more than 1,000 projects of restoration of movable cultural relics and preventive protection of museum collections have been completed, and more than 40,000 cultural relics have been restored. Since 2013, customs authorities have seized more than 12,000 illegally imported and exported cultural relics.
References Baidu Encyclopedia-World Intangible Cultural Heritage