China's top ten intangible cultural heritage

1, shadow play

Shadow play is an ancient Chinese folk traditional art, the old Beijing people call it "donkey shadow". Formerly known as "Shadow Play" or "Lamp Shadow Play", it is a kind of folk theater that uses light sources such as candles or burning alcohol to irradiate the silhouettes of figures made of animal skins or cardboard to perform stories.

When performing, artists behind a white curtain, while manipulating opera characters, while singing the story in local popular tunes (sometimes in dialect), accompanied by percussion instruments and stringed music, with a strong local flavor. In the rural areas of Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Tianshui in Gansu, this humble Han folk art form is very popular.

2. Chinese Paper Cutting

Chinese paper cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is intertwined with the social life of people of all ethnic groups, and is an important part of various folk activities.

The visual image and modeling format of paper-cutting is rich in cultural and historical information, and expresses the social cognition, moral concepts, practical experience, ideals of life and aesthetic interests of the general public, and has multiple social values, such as cognition, edification, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication.

China's paper-cutting was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009.

3. Guqin

Guqin is the oldest and purest traditional musical instrument. With a long history of more than 3,000 years, guqin music is an important part of Chinese music and a representative of traditional Chinese music culture. In ancient times, it was called the "qin", and also known as "silk tung" and "yaoqin", etc. Although it is said that "Fu Xi made the qin," it is also said that "Fu Xi made the qin," and "Fu Xi made the qin. Although the legends of "Fuxi made the qin", "Shennong made the qin" and "Shun made the five-stringed qin" are not credible, its history is really quite long.

4, bead counting

Bead counting is a method of numerical calculation using the abacus as a tool, known as China's fifth great invention. The abacus is a simple calculation tool invented and created by the ancient Chinese working people. The term "bead calculator" _ first appeared in the Han Dynasty, Xu Yue wrote the "counting records", which has a cloud: "bead calculator _ control with the four times _ warp and weft of the three talents".

5, twenty-four seasons

Twenty-four seasons, is an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, cohesion of the historical and cultural essence of Chinese civilization. The "twenty-four seasons" and the "twelve months" are the basic content of the dry calendar, which has been established in the ancient times (or ancient times). It is written in the ancient books that the Emperor of the Heavenly Kingdom first made the names of the dry and branched seasons in order to determine the location of the year.

6, Chinese acupuncture

Acupuncture is a general term for acupuncture and moxibustion. Acupuncture refers to the theory of Chinese medicine under the guidance of the needle (usually refers to the needle) in accordance with a certain angle into the patient's body, the use of twisting and lifting and insertion of the needle to specific parts of the human body to stimulate in order to achieve the purpose of the treatment of disease. The points of penetration are called acupoints, or acupoints for short.

7. Chinese Calligraphy

Chinese Calligraphy is a very unique visual art, and Chinese characters are an important factor in Chinese Calligraphy because Chinese Calligraphy was created and developed in Chinese culture, and Chinese characters are one of the basic elements of Chinese culture. Relying on Chinese characters is the main symbol that distinguishes Chinese Calligraphy from other kinds of calligraphy. 2009, it was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

8. Peking Opera

The art of Peking Opera is profound and profound, with the beauty of the literary and martial arts. Peking Opera has traveled all over the world, with Beijing as the center of its distribution throughout China, and has become an important medium for introducing and spreading traditional Chinese art and culture. On November 16, 2010, Peking Opera was inscribed on the Representative List of the World Intangible Cultural Heritage.

9. The Great Wall

The Great Wall is a military defense project in ancient China. It is a tall, strong, and coherent wall used to restrict the movement of enemies. The Great Wall is not a wall, but a defense system that combines numerous cities, barriers, pavilions, and markers with the Great Wall as the main body. The history of the construction of the Great Wall dates back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the famous story of the "Beacon Fire Playing with the Lords" took place in Xijing (present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi Province).

10, movable type printing

Movable type printing was invented by the Chinese people as early as the 11th century during the Northern Song Dynasty. As one of the "Four Great Inventions" of ancient China, printing has had a significant impact on the process of world civilization and the development of human culture.

The invention of movable type, a great technological revolution in the history of printing, was a method of printing that used movable metal or mastic blocks of type to replace traditional transcription, or printing plates that could not be reused.