What are the world-class intangible cultural heritage of sports

What are the world-class intangible cultural heritages of sports: asiatic mountaineering, Irish cricket, Shaanxi figure skipping, azhiga on ice, and taijiquan.

1, Alpine climbing

On December 11, 2019, UNESCO solemnly announced the inscription of Alpine climbing on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Alpine climbing is, as the name suggests, a form of mountaineering that originated in the European Alps, was born in the 18th century in the European Alps, and then became a worldwide activity.

2, Irish cricket

Irish cricket, also known as Irish-style field hockey, is a team ball game using a bat with a flat front end to dribble and hit the ball, and Gaelic soccer is known as Ireland's two major sports. 2018 was selected as a new UNESCO intangible cultural heritage list.

3, Shaanxi fancy rope skipping

Rope skipping has a history of thousands of years in China, is a popular folk fitness exercise, strong body, but also with a variety of dazzling tricks to play a "fancy" rope skipping. 2013, fancy rope skipping was selected as one of the intangible cultural heritage of the West. In 2013, rope skipping was selected as one of the fourth batch of intangible cultural heritage projects in Xi'an.

4, Ice Azhiga

Ice Azhiga is a traditional Mongolian ice sports, circulated in the area of the Arukhorqin Banner. 2007, Ice Azhiga became the autonomous region intangible cultural heritage project.

Azhiga refers to the ankle bones of cattle, sheep and other animals that have been processed and repaired. People in the frozen river, convex surface upward grasp Azhiga, with the thumb and forefinger twist flick to the far side, as the target Azhiga; and then take another Azhiga, aiming at the target Azhiga twist flick over, hit the person counted as victory.

5, taijiquan

Taijiquan is a traditional Chinese Confucian and Taoist philosophy of Taiji, yin and yang dialectical concept as the core idea, set of nourishing the temperament, physical fitness, combat against a variety of functions as a whole, combined with the yin and yang of the five elements of the changes in the study of Chinese medicine meridian science, the ancient art of guiding and spitting formed a kind of internal and external cultivation, It is a kind of traditional Chinese boxing which is soft, slow, light and flexible.