Recently, the State Council announced the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects. On the 10th, the State Council conducted a policy interpretation on this.
A total of 325 projects were announced in the State Council this time, involving 465 declared regions or units. Among them, there are 185 items in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects, which expand 140 items in the first four batches of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.
Wang Xiaofeng, a member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, said that the selection and evaluation of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects focused on the intangible cultural heritage projects of ethnic minorities, attached importance to the protection of endangered projects, and actively served the national strategy, taking into account regional coordinated development.
According to reports, a number of intangible items of ethnic minorities, such as Manchu New Town Opera, Mongolian Leather Art, Tibetan Chess, Uygur Hockey, Yi Traditional Architecture Building Skills, Zhuang Tianqin Art, Buyi Wushu, Yao Zhuzhu Festival, and Korean Hundred Festivals, are included in the list. These include tatar people’s traditional pastry making skills, Hezhe people’s wedding ceremony, Dulong folk songs, Menba Sama folk songs and other projects of ethnic minorities with less population.
18 projects recommended by 14 prefecture-level cities (including municipalities directly under the Central Government and counties) without national intangible heritage projects have been listed in the list, such as Taiping Drum in western Liaoning Province in Huludao City, Liaoning Province, Antelope Qianbian in zhongwei City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, painting of ancient buildings in Zhongwei and making techniques of wormwood noodles in Zhongning, and wood carving in Fengjie District, Chongqing.
103 projects in 96 former state-level poverty-stricken counties, such as Tushiyetu embroidery and Songtao Miao Xiu, were included in the list, and a number of intangible items such as Shaxian snacks and Liuzhou snail powder that served the people’s livelihood and benefited the people were also included in the list.
In addition, five items declared by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, such as Hong Kong Chinese gown making skills, Hong Kong Tianhou Birthday, Macao Special Administrative Region’s native dialect drama, native Portuguese cuisine cooking skills and Macao land customs, are all included in the list. Huanren Pankang Skill, Ninghe Opera, Xiaerbagong and other important projects that need urgent protection are also included in the list.
Up to now, there are 1,557 national intangible cultural heritage projects in China, including 167 folk literature, 189 traditional music, 144 traditional dance, 171 traditional drama, 145 folk art, 109 traditional sports, entertainment and acrobatics, 139 traditional art, 287 traditional skills, 23 traditional medicine and 183 folk customs. (Reporter Han Yeting)
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