Which traditional singing art is intangible cultural heritage

The traditional singing art of hula is an intangible cultural heritage of the world.

Intangible cultural heritage refers to cultural heritage or intangible cultural heritage recognized by international organizations or governments, usually including oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals and festivals. Hula means "throat", and is also known as throat singing, two-voice singing, multi-voice singing, or Hao Lin Chaoer. Ancient nomadic people in different social occasions such as grand ceremonies, or family festivals to celebrate the singing of the huomei, grazing on the way or in the yurt to put the baby to sleep will also sing the huomei.

Humai is an ancient and mysterious Mongolian art of throat singing, in which a person can sing the melody of more than two voices at the same time by the changes in the mouth and tongue, which was selected as one of the world's intangible cultural heritages in 2009. It should be noted that there are more cases of traditional singing arts being inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage list, such as the Mongolian long-tone folk songs of China and the opera of Italy's Cagliostro.

Inheritance significance

Huomai is one of the oldest art forms of the Mongolian nation, which retains more of certain elements of primitive singing, is a kind of long time echo from the depths of the national memory, and is closely related to the history and culture of the Mongolian people, and is of great value for the study of anthropology, ethnology and folklore.

Because of this, the huomai art inherited and spread for the contemporary Mongolian people has not only stirred the international music world, but also aroused the great interest and general concern of the experts and scholars of sociology, anthropology, history, culture and art from various countries in the world, and has attracted great attention of the ethnomusicologists and vocal experts and scholars. Rescue and protection of "hu mai" this magical art of singing, so that it from the disaster of extinction, is an important and urgent task.