Flip Flower Intangible Cultural Heritage

Flip Flower production techniques are a representative item of the intangible cultural heritage of Linyi City, with Jounan County as the declared region.

Artistic paper flowers were known as "Flip Flowers" or "Flip Prints" before the Qing Dynasty, and were later called "Flip Flowers," "Eighteen Changes," and "Eighteen Flips," respectively, and then formally known as "Artistic Paper Flowers". Said flip flower or magic flower is because she has a flower in the flower, flower in the flower, flower capital beautiful, lifelike. Paper flower gadgets, big wisdom as a traditional Chinese educational toys, both young and old, the elderly can play paper flower activities through the wrist, young children can identify colors through the paper flower, young people can improve their hands and brain power through the paper flower.

Paper turning has been recorded in the list of China's intangible cultural heritage, protection and inheritance, so that small objects show the wisdom of daily life. Pingyi Liu's flower turning, the process is more complex, there are more than a dozen procedures to complete.

Intangible cultural heritage

Establishing a representative list of intangible cultural heritage items and identifying the objects to be protected, so as to concentrate limited resources on the protection of intangible cultural heritage items embodying the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation and having historical, literary and scientific value, is an important basic work for the protection of intangible cultural heritage. It is one of the important basic tasks for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage.

As of 2021, a four-level national, provincial and municipal intangible cultural heritage list system with Chinese characteristics has been established, and more than 100,000 representative items of intangible cultural heritage have been recognized in the four-level list***, with a large number of precious, endangered and intangible cultural heritage of great value being effectively protected.

On September 17, 2016, the State Council replied to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "Petition on the Establishment of Cultural and Natural Heritage Day", agreeing that since 2017, the Cultural Heritage Day, which is held on the second Saturday of June every year, will be adjusted to be established as Cultural and Natural Heritage Day.