Overview of National Cultural Ecological Reserves

The cultural ecosystem is a complete system of interaction between culture and the natural environment, production and life style, economic forms, language environment, social organization, ideology, values and so on, with the characteristics of dynamism, openness and wholeness. Strengthening the protection of cultural ecology is an important part of the protection of cultural heritage.

A cultural ecological reserve is a specific area in which effective safeguarding measures are taken to restore an intangible cultural heritage (oral traditions and expressions, including language as a medium of the intangible cultural heritage; performing arts; social customs, rites and festivals; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; traditional craft skills, etc., as well as cultural spaces associated with the above-mentioned traditional cultural expressions) and the cultural space related to it. cultural space) and the tangible cultural heritage associated with them (immovable cultural relics, movable cultural relics, historical and cultural districts and villages and towns, etc.) are interdependent, closely related to people's life and production, and harmoniously ****located in an ecological environment in harmony with the natural environment, the economic environment and the social environment. The designation of cultural and ecological protection zones is an effective way of protecting cultural ecology by preserving ethnic and folk cultural heritage in its original state in the areas and environments to which it belongs, so that it can become a "living culture". For this reason, the national "Eleventh Five-Year" period of cultural development planning program clearly proposed the establishment of national folk culture ecological reserve.