Cultural heritage is the precious wealth left by history to mankind. In terms of existence form, it is divided into material cultural heritage (tangible cultural heritage) and intangible cultural heritage (intangible cultural heritage).
Material cultural heritage is cultural relics with historical, artistic and scientific value; intangible cultural heritage refers to various traditional cultures that exist in intangible forms, are closely related to people's lives and are passed down from generation to generation. Since 2006, the second Saturday of June every year is China Cultural Heritage Day.
So what are our country’s cultural heritages? Today I would like to introduce to you:
1. The Forbidden City in Beijing. The Forbidden City in Beijing is the royal palace of China's Ming and Qing dynasties. It was formerly known as the Forbidden City. It is located at the center of Beijing's central axis and is the essence of ancient Chinese palace architecture. It is one of the largest and best preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.
2. Summer Palace. The royal garden during the Qing Dynasty in China was formerly known as Qingyi Garden. It is a large-scale landscape garden based on Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain, based on the West Lake in Hangzhou, and drawing on the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most complete preserved royal palace garden and is known as the "Royal Garden Museum" , is also a key national tourist attraction.
3. The Great Wall, also known as the Great Wall, is a military defense project in ancient China. It is a tall, strong and continuous long wall used to limit the movement of enemy cavalry. On March 4, 1961, the Great Wall was announced by the State Council as one of the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In December 1987, the Great Wall was listed as a World Cultural Heritage.
4. The Temple of Heaven, a world cultural heritage, a national key cultural relics protection unit, a national AAAAA tourist attraction, and a national civilized scenic tourist area demonstration site. In the south of Beijing, on the east side of Yongdingmennei Street, Dongcheng District. It covers an area of ??approximately 2.73 million square meters. The Temple of Heaven was built in the 18th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1420), and was rebuilt during the Qianlong and Guangxu reigns of the Qing Dynasty. It was a place where emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties offered sacrifices to the emperor and prayed for a good harvest.
5. The Zhoukoudian Ruins Museum is located at the foot of Longgu Mountain in Zhoukoudian, Fangshan District, southwest of Beijing. It is an ancient human ruins museum founded in 1953. In 1929, Mr. Pei Wenzhong, a Chinese paleoanthropologist, unearthed the first complete skull fossil of "Peking Man" in Longgu Mountain, which shocked the world.
In addition to the above, there are also: Hebei Chengde Summer Resort and surrounding temples, Shanxi Pingyao Ancient City, Yungang Grottoes, Shaanxi Qin Shihuang Mausoleum and Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit, Yunnan Lijiang Ancient City, Jiangsu Suzhou Classical Gardens, Chongqing Dazu Rock Carvings, Ancient buildings in Wudang Mountain in Hubei, Mogao Grottoes in Gansu, Potala Palace (Jokhang Temple, Norbulingka) in Tibet, Longmen Grottoes in Henan, Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong, and royal mausoleums of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Mingming Mausoleum, Qing Dong Tomb, Qing Dong Tomb) Xiling, Ming Xiaoling, Ming Tombs), Sichuan Qingcheng Mountain-Dujiangyan, Anhui Wannan ancient villages (Xidi, Hongcun), Goguryeo Imperial City, royal tombs and noble tombs, Macao Historic City, Yin Ruins, Kaiping watchtowers and villages, Fujian earth buildings , the ancient architectural complex in Dengfeng Tiandi, Henan, the ruins of Shangdu in the Yuan Dynasty, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in Yunnan, and the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang.
In addition, there are several famous mountains including Mount Tai, Mount Huang, Mount Emei-Leshan Giant Buddha, Mount Xinning and Langshan in Wuyi, which are natural and cultural heritage sites, and Mount Lushan, Mount Wutai in Shanxi, and West Lake in Hangzhou, which are included in the cultural landscape heritage. Cultural landscape includes Kun Opera, Guqin, Xinjiang Uyghur Muqam art, Mongolian long-melody folk songs, Chinese sericulture and silk weaving skills, Fujian Nanyin, Nanjing Yunjin, Anhui rice paper, Guizhou Dong songs, Guangdong Cantonese opera, etc. Gesar" epic, Zhejiang Longquan celadon, Qinghai Regong art, Tibetan opera, Xinjiang "Manas", Mongolian Humai, Gansu Huaer, Xi'an drum music, Korean peasant music and dance, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese seal cutting, Chinese paper-cutting, Chinese woodblock printing, traditional Chinese wooden structure construction techniques, Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, Mazu beliefs and customs, Peking Opera, traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture, Qiang New Year (list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection), Li traditional textile, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills (intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection) List of cultural heritage), Chinese traditional wooden arch bridge construction techniques (list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection), Maixirefu (list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection), Chinese movable type printing (list of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection) ), China's watertight compartment Fu boat manufacturing skills (listed as an intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection), shadow puppetry, Hezhen's Yimakan rap (listed as an intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection), and traditional music recording archives belonging to the memory heritage, Qing Dynasty Cabinet Secret Files, Qing Dynasty Golden List, Naxi Dongba ancient books and documents, Chinese Qing Dynasty style architectural drawing files, "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Huangdi Neijing", Qiaopi files, Chinese Yuan Dynasty Tibetan official files, Nanjing Massacre files wait.
As a big country with a long history, our country naturally has a lot of cultural heritage. Is it unexpected that there are so many cultural heritages?