At the end of June, 2005, 1 1, the China calligraphy "Heritage Application" project started. On June 26th, 2007, China Calligraphers Association and China Painting and Calligraphy Institute of China Academy of Fine Arts officially declared the national intangible cultural heritage.
On June 7th, 2008, with the approval of the State Council, "China Calligraphy" was officially included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the same time, China Calligraphers Association and China Calligraphy Research Institute are determined to be directly responsible units for the inheritance and protection of calligraphy in China. On September 8th, 2008, China Calligraphy applied to UNESCO for the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity".
At the end of September, 2008, People's Republic of China (PRC) submitted the official text, application films and related materials of China Calligraphy to UNESCO. On September 30th, 2009, "China Calligraphy" was officially recognized as "the representative of human intangible cultural heritage" at the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO.
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On September 30th, 2009, at the 4th meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Abu Dhabi, 22 China-declared projects, including China's calligraphy, were approved for inclusion in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This has attracted the attention of the world. From then on, calligraphy not only belongs to China, but also belongs to all mankind.
On February 25th, 2009, China Calligraphy Association and China Calligraphy Research Institute of China Academy of Fine Arts held a press conference on "China Calligraphy" being selected into the list of representative works of human intangible cultural heritage.
Zhang Hai, Chairman of China Calligraphers Association, Zhao Changqing, Party Secretary, Vice Chairman and Secretary General of China Calligraphers Association, and Wang Yong, Dean of China Calligraphy Research Institute of China Academy of Fine Arts, attended the meeting and delivered speeches respectively. Dong, director of the domestic liaison department of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and director of the theoretical research office, and more than 50 mainstream media in the capital attended the news briefing.
At the meeting, Li, executive vice president of China Calligraphy Institute of China Academy of Fine Arts, introduced the declaration of calligraphy heritage on behalf of China Calligraphy Association and China Calligraphy Institute of China Academy of Fine Arts ... He said that "China Calligraphy" applied for the United Nations "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" and attracted wide attention from calligraphy circles and the whole society.
Not long ago, the fourth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO deliberated and adopted 76 projects listed in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, among which "China Calligraphy" was listed.
After 3000 years of continuous inheritance and innovation, China's calligraphy has become a traditional art category with the most China cultural characteristics and rich historical accumulation, deeply loved by people in China and even the world, and has become an important representative symbol of China's traditional culture.
The successful application of "China Calligraphy" fully shows that China calligraphy is a long history, colorful and excellent intangible cultural heritage of mankind, that the government and the whole society attach great importance to the protection of traditional culture, and that the legal circles are unprecedented in unity and strength, which is of great and far-reaching significance.
China Calligraphy, co-edited by China Calligraphers Association and Calligraphy Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Art and published by Rong Baozhai Publishing House, was released at the meeting as a representative work of human intangible cultural heritage.
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