What is the material and cultural heritage of Nanjing?

1, Nanjing paper-cut, Nanjing paper-cut has been widely spread among Nanjing people since the early Ming Dynasty. It is especially famous for its flowers and fragrant flowers. Wedding flowers are used for wedding dresses, bridal chambers and holiday decorations. Bean scented flowers are used to decorate bean scented candles, which are unique to Nanjing and rich in regional characteristics. Nanjing contemporary paper-cut is represented by the late paper-cut descendant Zhang Jigen, and represented by Zhang Fanglin, Ma Lianxi and Zhang Lindi. They are still engaged in the inheritance and development of paper-cutting in Nanjing.

2, Qinhuai Lantern Festival, Qinhuai Lantern Festival is an important space for Nanjing people to continue and inherit folk culture. It originated in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, developed rapidly in Tang Dynasty and reached its peak in Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, advocated the Lantern Festival in Nanjing in the early Ming Dynasty, Nanjing gradually began to enjoy the reputation of "Qinhuai lantern (color) is the best in the world", and the original boat with lanterns on Qinhuai River (commonly known as "lantern boat") was famous all over the world.

3. Nanjing White Bureau is a unique folk art form in Nanjing, which is characterized by singing and reciting in authentic Nanjing dialect. Nanjing White Bureau originated from the folk tunes of rural percussion bands and the folk songs of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and was formed in the brocade machine room. In June 2008, Nanjing White Bureau was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council.

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Cultural relics refer to buildings, inscriptions, sculptures, books, calligraphy and paintings, archaeological elements or structures, inscriptions, caves, complexes and so on with outstanding universal value from the perspective of history, art or science.

Architecture, from the perspective of history, art or science, has outstanding universal value in architectural style, uniform distribution or combination with environmental scenery.

Cultural sites, from the perspective of history, aesthetics, ethnology or anthropology, are areas with outstanding universal value, such as human engineering or joint engineering between nature and people, archaeology and so on.