22 items including Chinese paper-cutting were selected as World Heritage

22 items including Chinese paper-cutting were selected as World Heritage

According to Hong Kongs "Wen Wei Po", the latest news came from Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. The UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held on September 30 decided that 22 Chinese projects. Including Cantonese opera, calligraphy, paper-cutting, woodblock printing, Dragon Boat Festival, Mazu beliefs and customs, etc., were successfully selected into the "Representative List of World Human Intangible Cultural Heritage".

Including "Dragon Boat Festival customs" in three provinces and four places

Four years ago, South Korea’s “Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival” was successfully applied for World Heritage status, which made the Chinese people feel sad. In October last year, entrusted by the Ministry of Culture, Hubei Province submitted the application form and related materials for the "Chinese Dragon Boat Festival" to UNESCO on behalf of China. It is reported that the projects applied for this "Chinese Dragon Boat Festival" include the "Dragon Boat Festival Customs in Qu Yuans Hometown" in Zigui County, Hubei Province, the "Xisai Shenzhou Festival" in Huangshi City, the "Dragon Boat Festival Customs on the Bank of Miluo River" in Miluo City, Hunan Province, and the "Dragon Boat Festival Customs on the Bank of Miluo River" in Miluo City, Jiangsu Province. "Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival Customs" consists of four parts, and the application materials are jointly "packaged" by the three provinces. The "Dragon Boat Festival customs" in the above three provinces and four places were included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists in 2006.

Yun Brocade was successfully applied for World Heritage status for the fourth time

It is understood that there are 111 candidate heritage sites from 35 countries participating in the competition for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List, and China has submitted a total of 35 applications to UNESCO. In the end, a total of 76 projects were selected from around the world, including 22 Chinese projects. In addition to the Dragon Boat Festival, the manufacturing techniques of rice paper and Hui ink are among the "Four Treasures of the Study" that have attracted much attention. In addition, Nanjing Yunjin, which has a history of hand-weaving for more than 1,500 years, has applied for UNESCO World Heritage status three times, and finally succeeded in its fourth application this year. It is reported that the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties all had government-run weaving bureaus in Nanjing, which specialized in weaving brocades for the royal family.

In addition, Chinas selected items on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List include the following items: Mulberry Silk Weaving Technique, Fujian Nanyin, Guizhou Dong Song, Guangdong Cantonese Opera, "Gesar" Epic, Zhejiang Longquan Celadon, Qinghai Regong Art, Tibetan Opera, Xinjiang "Manas", Mongolian Khumai, Gansu Huaer, Xi'an Drum Music, ChaoXian ethnic minority music and dance, calligraphy, seal cutting, paper-cutting, woodblock printing, traditional wooden structure construction techniques, and Mazu beliefs and customs.