What is the difference between material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage?

The difference between material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage is that material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage focus on tangible and intangible. Material and cultural heritage is tangible and is passed down through material forms, such as historical relics, historical buildings, historical sites, ancient books and other tangible forms of cultural heritage.

The difference between material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage

What is tangible is the material cultural heritage, and what is spiritual is the intangible cultural heritage. Contrary to the above-mentioned material cultural heritage, intangible cultural heritage is intangible culture, which is a traditional folk cultural skill and handicraft skill handed down from generation to generation by folk artists in the form of mentoring.

Including various national traditions and folk knowledge, language, oral literature, customs, folk music, dance, etiquette, handicrafts, traditional medicine, architecture and other arts. Our country has a long history and culture and many nationalities, and our ancestors not only left us a lot of material and cultural heritage.

Cultural heritage is generally divided into material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. Material and cultural heritage refers to the cultural relics left over from history, and it is a concrete object. The outstanding emphasis also lies in the history and value of the object itself, and it also leaves a rich and valuable intangible cultural heritage, some of which have applied for protection, and some are in the process of application. Although the protection of intangible cultural heritage is accelerating, it is urgent to protect intangible cultural heritage for various reasons.