The Dragon Boat Festival belongs to China.
According to relevant regulations, each country is only allowed to declare one "intangible cultural heritage" item to the United Nations each year. The Dragon Boat Festival officially became a national statutory holiday for the first time in 2008, and it was also my country's only world "intangible cultural heritage" item in 2009. project.
Previously, my country’s four intangible cultural heritages, including Kun Opera art, Guqin art, Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam art, and Mongolian long-melody folk songs, have been selected into UNESCO’s Representative Works of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
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South Korea's "Dragon Boat Festival" has been announced as a world intangible cultural heritage in 2005. Now, can China's "Dragon Boat Festival" be "listed" successfully? Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage The person in charge of the conservation center said: There will be no impact. China’s Dragon Boat Festival’s bid to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site is guaranteed to be successful.
In the text of South Korea's declaration of the "Dragon Boat Festival", the first sentence is "The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a Chinese festival and has been introduced to South Korea for more than 1,500 years." Some people are worried that if we declare the Dragon Boat Festival later, the possibility of its success "will be greatly reduced"?
Korea's "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival" starts with brewing sacred wine, and folk activities include official slave masks Opera, agricultural music competitions, Heshan Odaodai ballads, tug-of-war, wrestling, swinging, Chinese poetry writing competitions, archery, pot throwing, etc. are mostly popular entertainment activities; while the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is mainly to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan, and folk customs Activities include eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus and moxa leaves, smoking atractylodes and angelica, drinking realgar wine, and children wearing purses and five-poison pockets, etc., which are intended to drive away poison and evil spirits.
South Korea’s “Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival” has a complete set of folk activities that are both related to and different from the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. Moreover, "representative works of oral heritage and intangible heritage of mankind" are "exclusive". For example, UNESCO has successively approved the "Iraqi Muqam" and "Azerbaijani Muqam" as intangible cultural heritage. In 2007 In 2017, China’s application for the “Xinjiang Muqam” was approved again.
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