What is intangible heritage?

"Intangible cultural heritage" refers to "intangible cultural heritage", as opposed to "material cultural heritage". Intangible cultural heritage refers to all kinds of traditional cultural expressions handed down from generation to generation by people of all ethnic groups and regarded as part of their cultural heritage, as well as physical objects and places related to traditional cultural expressions.

1, function

Intangible cultural heritage is passed down from generation to generation, and it is constantly recreated in the adaptation of communities and groups to the surrounding environment and the interaction with nature and history, providing these communities and groups with a sense of identity and continuity, thus enhancing respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.

2. Types

The ten representative items of China's intangible cultural heritage are: folk literature, traditional music, traditional dance, traditional drama, folk art, traditional sports, entertainment acrobatics, traditional art, traditional skills, traditional medicine and folk customs.

3. Quantity

By the end of 65438+February 2022, the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List (roster) * * * included 676 heritage projects, corresponding to 140 countries; Among them, China ranked 43 items, ranking first in the world. By the end of 20021,there were more than 654.38+million intangible cultural heritage projects identified in the list of national, provincial, municipal and county-level intangible cultural heritage with China characteristics.

4. Significance

Intangible cultural heritage is the most dynamic and important part of cultural diversity, the crystallization of human civilization and the most precious wealth, bearing the wisdom of human beings and the civilization and glory of human history.

Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, Intangible Heritage Festival, Intangible Heritage Expo and China Intangible Heritage List;

1, Cultural and Natural Heritage Day

On February 8, 2006, the Notice on Strengthening the Protection of Cultural Heritage decided that from 2006, the second Saturday of June every year will be China Cultural Heritage Day. The notice said that cultural heritage includes material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage.

2. Intangible festivals and exhibitions

Intangible cultural heritage protection "Western Festival (Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival) and Eastern Festival (China Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo)" are two national festivals, which are an important platform to comprehensively display the fruitful achievements of intangible cultural heritage protection in China and lead the direction of intangible cultural heritage protection.

3. China Intangible Cultural Heritage List

Establishing a list of representative intangible cultural heritage projects, confirming the protected objects, concentrating limited resources, and focusing on protecting intangible cultural heritage projects with historical, literary, artistic and scientific values, is one of the important basic tasks for the protection of intangible cultural heritage.