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What are the world's non-legacy China?

China, a world intangible cultural heritage, includes shadow play, Chinese paper-cutting, abacus, solar terms and China calligraphy.

1, shadow play

Shadow play is an ancient traditional folk art in China, which is called "donkey shadow play" by old Beijingers. Formerly known as "Shadow Play" or "Lantern Play", it is a folk drama that uses animal skins or cardboard to make silhouette of characters and uses candles or spirits to perform stories. During the performance, artists manipulated the opera characters behind the scenes, accompanied by local popular tunes, percussion and strings, and sang stories (sometimes in dialects), which had a strong local flavor.

2. Chinese paper cutting

Chinese paper-cutting is a folk art, which uses scissors or knives to cut and carve patterns on paper to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and has been integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities. Its continuous visual image and modeling form contain rich cultural and historical information, expressing the public's social cognition, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste.

Step 3: abacus

Abacus is a numerical calculation method with abacus as a tool, which is called the fifth invention of China. Abacus is a simple calculation tool invented and created by the working people in ancient China. The word "abacus" first appeared in Ji Shuyi by Xu Yue in Han Dynasty. As the saying goes, "abacus, four seasons control, latitude and longitude three talents."

4. solar terms

Twenty-four solar terms are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, which embodies the essence of Chinese civilization. "Twenty-four solar terms" and "December architecture" are the basic contents of ancient (or ancient) calendars. According to ancient records, the emperor's family began to make branches to determine their age. "Twenty-four solar terms" refers to the specific seasons, phenology, climate change and "December architecture" established in the calendar.

5. China Calligraphy

Calligraphy is an ancient art of writing in China. From Oracle Bone Inscriptions,, (Wen) to Da Zhuan, Xiao Zhuan and Li Shu, and then to the cursive script, regular script and running script in the Eastern Han and Wei Dynasties, calligraphy has always exuded artistic charm. China's calligraphy is a very unique visual art, and Chinese characters are an important factor in China's calligraphy, because China's calligraphy was produced and developed in China culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of China culture.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shadow Play Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Paper-cutting.