Essay on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Abstract: Since the protection of intangible cultural heritage was carried out, China has introduced a series of rescue and protection measures, but it also faces many practical problems. This paper discusses the role of tourism in promoting the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

[Keywords:] economic development of intangible cultural heritage tourist areas

Intangible cultural heritage refers to all kinds of traditional cultural expressions closely related to people's lives and passed down from generation to generation, including oral traditions, traditional performing arts, folk activities, rituals and festivals, folk traditional knowledge and practice about nature and the universe, traditional handicraft skills, and cultural spaces related to the above traditional cultural expressions. Intangible cultural heritage is a people-oriented living cultural heritage, which emphasizes people-centered skills, experience and spirit and is characterized by living changes.

China is a multi-ethnic country, and its long history and splendid ancient civilization have left rich cultural traditions and spirits for the Chinese nation, which are reflected in many existing material heritages, but most of them are in intangible cultural heritages. Many of these intangible cultural heritages are manifestations of traditional culture, which have outstanding value and are widely spread in history, art, religion, anthropology, sociology, linguistics, literature or handicrafts. They are genius masterpieces created by human spirit, and some of them can be regarded as the essence of world culture. Intangible cultural heritage comes from people's long-term production and life practice and is closely related to the production and life of the broad masses of people. It is close to reality, life and the masses, with the characteristics of nationality and popularity, and is closely related to the construction of advanced culture. Protecting and promoting intangible cultural heritage is a concrete practice in Theory of Three Represents, which is of great significance to the continuation of Chinese civilization and cultural innovation.

Intangible cultural heritage has the same characteristics: intangible cultural heritage is a special heritage of human beings, which has its own particularity from content to form, and has the characteristics of immaterialization, regionality, inheritance, sociality, intangibility, diversity and vividness. A correct understanding of these characteristics of intangible cultural heritage is the premise of scientific understanding and protection of intangible cultural heritage.

The biggest feature of intangible cultural heritage is that it is not divorced from the special way of life and production of the nation, and it is a vivid embodiment of national personality and aesthetic habits. It exists on the basis of human beings, with sound, images and skills as the means of expression and word-of-mouth as the cultural chain. It is the most fragile part of "living" culture and its tradition. Therefore, for the inheritance process of intangible cultural heritage, human inheritance is particularly important. So we should protect it.

"Intangible cultural heritage protection" is put forward in view of the previous "intangible cultural heritage protection". In 2003, the 32nd session of UNESCO officially adopted the Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris. The so-called intangible cultural heritage refers to all kinds of traditional cultural expressions and cultural spaces that people of all ethnic groups have passed down from generation to generation and are closely related to people's lives. It includes traditional performing arts such as music, dance and opera. Folk activities mainly reflecting local customs; Traditional handicraft skills with national style.

Nowadays, tourism has a high degree of socialization, strong comprehensiveness and great development potential. It is a big emerging industry, sunrise industry and sustainable development industry. The development degree of tourism is an important symbol of social and economic development and the improvement of people's quality of life. The ancient city is rich in scenic spots and tourism resources, with high grade, which has extremely high historical protection value, cultural exploration value and tourism development value. It is not difficult to understand that economic development may cause developmental damage to heritage. Cultural heritage is a living heritage, which needs to be handed down from generation to generation. With the changes of the times, the society in which the inheritors live is also developing, and the inheritance will also change. As a cultural issue, intangible cultural heritage should also respect the development law of things. Whether it is development or protection, as long as it violates the development law of things, it will always become unrealistic. Moderate protection and rational development will complement each other and promote the inheritance and development of cultural heritage.

National folk culture is the basis and selling point of tourism development. The more a tourist destination with a long history and traditional culture can attract tourists' attention, the traditional intangible cultural heritage is an important link that cannot be ignored in the development of tourism. Intangible culture is more attractive to tourism, because compared with material culture, they are more easily lost, more secretive and difficult to be known by outsiders. With the deepening of society's understanding of intangible cultural heritage, it is an important measure to rescue and protect outstanding intangible cultural heritage by bringing it into the development plan of tourism industry. In order to relieve the government pressure, solve the financial pressure and truly realize the market-oriented operation of intangible cultural heritage protection, the interest mechanism is used to mobilize the conscious protection of intangible culture. Intangible cultural heritage is more precious than material heritage, so it can be welcomed by tourists and bring great tourism effects and economic benefits to tourism operators and society. Therefore, while developing regional tourism and stimulating the economy, we call on all people to consciously join the ranks of protecting intangible cultural heritage.

Intangible cultural heritage is a cultural substance created and passed down by human beings in history, which has important historical, artistic, scientific and cultural values and knowledge, skills and skills. For example, folk literature, performing arts, traditional festivals, traditional ceremonies and knowledge of production and life are all important components of intangible cultural heritage. The long history has left us a rich legacy. Faced with this huge cultural wealth, people often have different understandings from different angles.

From the perspective of heritage workers, intangible cultural heritage is the inheritance and continuation of ancestors' culture. Proper protection of intangible cultural heritage is of great significance to objectively understand history, carry out cultural innovation, protect cultural diversity and rebuild social order. Because intangible cultural heritage has no physical form, it is more difficult to identify and protect than tangible cultural relics (movable and immovable cultural relics). At the same time, due to the characteristics of live transmission, an intangible cultural heritage, it is more fragile than tangible cultural relics in the historical changes and the impact of the times, and it is easier to disappear than tangible cultural relics. It is precisely because of this difficulty and its own fragility that the protection of intangible cultural heritage is more urgent and urgent.

From the perspective of tourism and economic workers, intangible cultural heritage is a precious wealth left by ancestors to contemporary and future generations, which contains rich cultural and economic values. In the process of protecting intangible cultural heritage, all parties are encouraged to make flexible use of intangible cultural heritage, from folk performances to tourism development, from handicraft sales to cultural creativity development, and to develop its cultural and economic value in various ways, so that intangible cultural heritage can play its due role in developing humanistic tourism landscape and stimulating local economic development while promoting traditional culture and revitalizing national art.

Tourism promotes the protection of intangible cultural heritage. As mentioned above, intangible cultural heritage, as a living heritage, needs to be passed down from generation to generation. With the changes of the times and the continuous development of the society where the inheritors live, the inheritance will also change with the times. Is the inevitable result of social change. Many intangible cultural heritages come from ethnic areas and rural areas with underdeveloped productivity, and these places are undergoing rapid social changes today. In social changes, people often think not about how to protect cultural heritage, but how to get rid of the shackles of cultural backwardness. Therefore, it is necessary to keep the original appearance of cultural heritage as true as possible, so that future generations can understand the whole picture of the heritage more truly and prevent the heritage from being abused in the future.

Declaration fever, development fever and cultural fever are popular all over the country, exploring excellent local intangible folk cultural heritage and developing tourism resources. The economic benefits brought by tourism directly promote, learn and spread many intangible cultural heritages, which not only expands the influence of intangible cultural heritages in society, but also greatly enhances people's awareness of protection. We should not only protect, but also carry forward. Under the environment of protecting intangible cultural heritage, vigorously developing tourism can mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, take advantage of the interests of market economy, truly implement this brand-new concept, and let everyone consciously join this ranks.

Intangible cultural heritage is inherited, and its origin and development play an important role. Intangible cultural heritage is a kind of tourism resources, which is essentially a distinctive basic culture and occupies an irreplaceable position in modern tourism resources!