What does it mean to be an intangible cultural bearer

Cultural inheritors, also called people who inherit intangible cultural heritage. It involves 134 items in five categories, including folk literature, folk art, traditional handicrafts and traditional medicine.

Expression:

The inheritors are mainly present in the fields of oral literature, performing arts, handicrafts, and folk knowledge. The investigation and identification of outstanding inheritors, the rights and interests of inheritors and their management are urgent problems encountered in the ongoing census of China's intangible cultural heritage at the beginning of the 21st century. Cultural inheritors are the guardians of intangible cultural heritage.

Important role:

An outstanding inheritor should be a figure who is capable of making cultural choices and cultural innovations in inheriting traditions, and who plays a significant role in the inheritance, preservation, continuation, and development of the intangible cultural heritage beyond the ordinary people, and who is respected and recited by one side of the population.

For example, in the inheritance of ancient intangible culture, Hua Tuo and Sun Simiao were the originators of the traditional medicine line, Lu Ban was the ancestor of the wood and stone construction industry, Huang Daobao was the ancestor of the cotton spinning, Fan Li was honored as the ancestor of the pottery industry, Dukang was rumored to be the ancestor of the wine-making industry, and Liu Sanjie was the Song Fairy of the Zhuang people, and so on. Ancestors are the earliest or early founders or heirs.

Reference for the above: Baidu Encyclopedia--Cultural Inheritors