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Narrator: With the dumplings being put on the counters of large and small supermarkets, the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival in China, is coming. And these days, the rumors about the Dragon Boat Festival may be declared by South Korea as the country's cultural heritage, has caused a lot of public debate, then, the Dragon Boat Festival in the end how the origin? South Korea and why declare the Dragon Boat Festival as cultural heritage? To this end, the reporter conducted a survey.

Interview: Xiao Fang, associate researcher at the Institute of Folklore, Beijing Normal University

Wu Bing: Mr. Xiao, tell me about the Dragon Boat Festival in China, its origin in the end when?

Xiao Fang: If we talk about the Dragon Boat Festival, as a documentary record, it was in the Jin Dynasty, there was a man named Zhou Chu, who had a book called "The Record of Customs and Land". Then this book for the first time recorded the name of the Dragon Boat Festival. At that time, there was no record of defense to come to our dragon boat even ferry these things did not.

Wu Bing: about how long?

Xiao Fang: probably more than 1,700 years of history, I should say.

Wu Bing: Let's say our Dragon Boat Festival has a history of more than 1,700 years.

Xiao Fang: If you want to say is not to say roughly two thousand years almost.

Wu Bing: Then you think that the Korean Dragon Boat Festival, Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival and our Dragon Boat Festival have no inevitable connection between?

Xiao Fang: If you want to talk about the connection, there is definitely a connection. Because before the East Asian culture, the whole East Asian continent and the Korean Peninsula, this culture has a correlation, in the very early days, its history and culture is linked together, so it is including its residents, including some of its system, including some of its customs are related. There is a relationship.

Explanation: the Dragon Boat Festival as China has a history of more than 2,500 years of traditional festivals, as early as many years ago to the neighboring countries, has become a grand festival across Asia, all nationalities *** with the celebration. Especially as China's close neighbors in South Korea, has long been the Dragon Boat Festival as a traditional festival, this time South Korea to UNESCO to apply for the United Nations Intangible Cultural Heritage. Declared is the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, more Korean local characteristics.

Interview: Wang Jinqiang, director of the Office of Chinese Folk Culture Rescue Project

Wang Jinqiang, director of the Office of Chinese Folk Culture Rescue Project

Korea's Dragon Boat Festival is a very traditional festival, but the introduction of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival from China, or the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, the impact of Southeast Asian countries, East Asian countries, and they have been intangible property since 1961 to protect. Then in 1967, this Dragon Boat Festival was protected as a holiday. Then since the late sixties, the Korean Dragon Boat Festival is attended by millions of people every year, it's said. So it has a big influence in Korea.

Explanation: In the Gangneung region of South Korea, the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is actually more of a festival for young Korean men and women, in which young men and women hold a wide range of activities in which they express their love and affection for their sweethearts.

Interview: Korean students

Wu Bing: Is there a Dragon Boat Festival in Korea?

Korean students: Yes.

Wu Bing: Yes, right? How do you usually celebrate it?

Korean student: Dragon Boat Festival is one of the three major festivals in Korea.

Wu Bing: Traditional festival.

Korean student: Yes, but on that Dragon Boat Festival, we don't take a vacation, we don't take a break, we just over have some activities, eat things, rice cakes and things like that. Comparison of traditional. I don't know if there are any in China, it's not easy to translate.

Wu Bing: what else

Korean students: long hair. Wash your hair with calamus water.

Another Korean student: wash hair.

Wu Bing: washing hair, and wrestling.

Korean student: Wrestling and swinging

Interview

Korean visiting scholar Gao Zhongshou: I think China was a very influential country from ancient times, so many aspects have been passed down from China to Korea, quite a lot. For example, the ritual aspect, also from China. However, Korea has slowly changed from the ancient times to the present, and it has been preserved.

Explanation: Although the Dragon Boat Festival originally originated in China, but the Korean Dragon Boat Festival also has a long history, and the formation of its own national cultural practices, therefore, South Korea intends to declare the Dragon Boat Festival to UNESCO as a "masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of mankind", we can not be faulted.

Interview: Xiao Fang, associate researcher at the Institute of Folklore, Beijing Normal University

Wu Bing: Now there is a lot of media speculation, and it can be said that a lot of media in the debate, South Korea, Gangneung, this region to declare the Dragon Boat Festival as the world's intangible cultural heritage, so how should we rationally look at this matter?

Researcher: I think this thing, originally said should say not much of a thing. Because this place, Gangneung, Korea, it has preserved the rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival relatively intact, and many thousands of people participate in this event every year. There is a tradition, and they are in 1967 to make the country an intangible cultural asset. In the protection, then he, it valued this thing, there is no excuse.

Narrator: According to experts, the application of intangible cultural heritage and brand registration is different, with '*** enjoyment', there is no snatch, that is to say, we can also declare their own Dragon Boat Festival as a world cultural heritage, therefore, in the face of the Dragon Boat Festival event, many people's reflections are very calm.

Feedback from the public

1: From this world heritage, because it is something that mankind **** enjoys, **** enjoys is not something that any country, any country in this regard to be protected, or that collects the bar, are a very big contribution to mankind.

2: I think because now there is a trend of globalization, this kind of holiday things, for example, now we also have what the Western Valentine's Day, Christmas, that other people can also celebrate our kind of holiday.

3: I think it's a good thing. World Heritage, after all, the more applications, the more it will be protected for future generations to leave more and more things, because now with the pollution of the environment and man-made destruction, leaving fewer and fewer things. It's better to leave more than less after all, isn't it?

Explanation: All countries in the world have the responsibility to protect their own national cultural heritage, so the Korean side of the Dragon Boat Festival 'heritage' is not a bad thing. However, as the birthplace of the Dragon Boat Festival, this incident also makes us start to reflect.

Interview: Wang Jinqiang, director of the Office of Chinese Folk Culture Rescue Project

Wang Jinqiang, director of the Office of Chinese Folk Culture Rescue Project, said: "In my personal opinion, South Korea's declaration of the cultural heritage of the Dragon Boat Festival is not good enough to say what the probability of success of its feasibility is, but from the event itself, I think it should cause us to pay attention to and reflect on what we have done to protect the national folk culture, and what we have done to protect our cultural heritage. What have we done in the protection of our "Law on the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Culture", twenty years of legislation, has not yet been introduced. Twenty years have not yet been introduced. Then although there are in the academic, the means of protection, methods need to be argued, research, but the act of protection itself we do not do enough.

Narrator: It is unavoidable that today, the entire environment of Chinese folk culture is now facing the challenges of economic globalization and modernization. A lot of folk culture is disappearing, and people are becoming more and more indifferent to traditional festivals, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, where people only remember to eat zongzi (rice dumplings).

Interview: Ike Xiangdong, Deputy General Manager of Taoxiangcun Group

Ike Xiangdong, Deputy General Manager of Taoxiangcun Group, said: "We basically produce rice dumplings all year round, and we're producing and selling more than 10,000 dumplings every day, and we're really going to have a peak in the 10 days before the Dragon Boat Festival, and we're going to have to produce and supply more than 20,000 dumplings to the market, even though this is a very big festival. The main reason for this is the fact that the number of people who have to pay for their own food is not enough to meet the demand for it.

Wu Bing: mooncake festival, dumplings festival, these are our traditional festivals, then you think to these festivals, just eat eat dumplings, eat mooncakes can?

The deputy general manager of the Taoxiangcun Group, Mr. Ji Xiangdong, said: "I think the traditional Chinese festival culture, and the festival merchandise is linked to know more closely, but I think, as the connotation of the whole festival, should not be just a kind of food, a lot of food can not be, but the light of these foods I think it is still relatively thin.

Wu Bing: Now there is a phenomenon, especially some of our young people, if you mention Valentine's Day, Christmas, we have to buy flowers on the street on the holiday, or with friends to Christmas, very grand. But usually, when we have the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Dragon Boat Festival, similar to such folk festivals, it seems to be very cold, but also to eat dinner, then, is it possible to say that we have some of our own traditions of some folk festivals, has been somewhat diluted?

Expert comment

Expert: It should be said that this a number of years, especially the cultural revolution, a destruction of the four old destruction, on the traditional culture of an actual interruption, is a very big impact. It seems that our people do not feel the festive atmosphere of this thing. Many of the good cultural elements of festivals have been omitted. A lot of the activities are not allowed. In the end, it became a just eat rice dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival only eat moon cakes. Chongyang Festival also do not eat anything. In that case, the festival has become an empty thing, it does not have the feeling of reality.

Explanation: Therefore, this "Dragon Boat Festival" event gives us a revelation: we can not ignore the protection of our intangible cultural heritage, the protection of the work can not just stay in the mouth, to come up with practical action. In order not to let similar things happen again, at present our country has also been in full swing festival folk cultural heritage "heritage" protection work. In order to strengthen people's awareness of folk culture, experts also proposed a number of actionable solutions.

Interview: Xiao Fang, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Folklore, Beijing Normal University

Xiao Fang, Associate Researcher at the Institute of Folklore, Beijing Normal University: Some time ago, during the "Two Sessions", some delegates, representatives of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the National People's Congress (NPC), all proposed that traditional festivals, important traditional festivals, as holidays, be held on a regular basis, and I think this proposal is very important. I think this proposal is very good. Because our Qingming Festival, there is another is our Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival should be appropriate holiday to ensure that it, so that everyone in the busy work to stop to go with our traditions close. To show the good things of our past to our young people, so that they feel the charm of our traditional culture.

Explanation: In order to protect the traditional cultural heritage of the Chinese nation and safeguard the independence and richness of national cultures, the relevant departments have stepped up their efforts to protect them, with the Ministry of Culture issuing the Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Cultures, and announcing a number of pilot projects for the protection of ethnic and folk cultures. (Attached list) The Ministry of Finance officially included the ethnic folk culture protection project in its budget line, investing 5 million yuan in 2003 as a start-up fund, and another 20 million yuan in 2004 to support the development of the pilot work.

Interview: Wang Jinqiang, Director of the Office of Chinese Folk Culture Rescue Project

Wang Jinqiang, Director of the Office of Chinese Folk Culture Rescue Project

Protecting our folk culture can be said to be a comprehensive modern society, it should be said that a comprehensive a whole set of approaches, then the state, social, the formation of a universal nationwide protection network, the protection system, a set of Effective protection measures, we should be said to learn, including the West, other Asian countries, such as Japan, including South Korea, in some aspects of the protection of good experience and methods, while using modern high-tech means of our folk culture for this three-dimensional, multi-dimensional protection and rescue.

Wu Bing: At present, China has formulated the draft of the "Protection of Traditional Ethnic and Folk Culture Law", and has been submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for consideration. We believe this law will provide a legal basis for the protection of the endangered Chinese dialects, costumes, operas, folk culture and other oral and intangible cultural heritage. The protection of folk culture in China will also be better and better.