What are the intangible cultural heritages in Shanghai?

Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage has 14 kinds of folk literature, 16 kinds of traditional music, 10 kinds of traditional dance, 10 kinds of traditional opera, 6 kinds of song, 15 kinds of traditional sports and amusement and acrobatics, 34 kinds of traditional fine arts, 84 kinds of traditional arts and crafts, 15 kinds of traditional medicines and 18 kinds of folklore.

1, Zhejiang School of Guzheng Art

The Zhejiang School of Guzheng Art is widely popular in China's Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, i.e., south of the Yangtze River in the southern part of Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang. During the Tang and Song dynasties, the zheng had been spread to Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province by the Central Plains. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the guzheng was retained in the accompaniment of the "Hangzhou Tangling Reed" and the ensemble of the "Hangbang Silk and Bamboo".

New works of zheng music in the past 40 years have not left the traditional and newly created techniques of the zheng art of the Zhejiang School, which has promoted the integration of the guzheng into the social life of the country, and has attracted more than 5 million people to learn the guzheng, and guzheng talents based on the zheng of the Zhejiang School have spread all over the country and the world.

2. Waist Drums

Tinglin Waist Drums is a traditional featured activity program passed down from folk cultural activities in Tinglin area, and in the long term inheritance and development, its performance form combines music, dance, fitness, gymnastics, rice-planting songs and folk culture.

3, Xuanzhu

Xuanzhu originated from the Tang Dynasty's "Letter Speaking" and the Song Dynasty's "Talking about the Scriptures," and in the Qing Dynasty, there appeared artists who sang Xuanzhu as their profession. Xuan volume artists in the form of storytelling, for the people to say folk things and folklore, so Xuan volume artists are also known as "speakers". It is by a person to declare, two people to help, accompanied by a small band, the form is similar to the Suzhou commentary, but not quite the same, more distinctive.

4, Zhou Huchen brush production techniques

Zhou Huchen pen ink Zhuang set of lake pen, water pen, calligraphy and painting pen three major pen technology, the integration of China's southern pen technology, the creation of the Sea School of the brush, so that the Sea School of the brush and the Sea School of calligraphy and painting accompanied. The animal hair used for making brushes is commonly goat hair, weasel tail, mountain rabbit hair, Chinese rabbit hair and so on.

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Significance of Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage

Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage, which embodies the traditional concepts, aesthetic personalities, and cultural spirit of Shanghai, has become a "living fossil" of the city's development.

Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage embodies the traditional concepts, aesthetic personalities and cultural spirit of Shanghai's maritime city, and has become a "living fossil" of Shanghai's urban development. Since the date of the opening of the port, Shanghai as a "commercial dock" has become a natural platform for the convergence of various cultures and civilizations, exchanges and integration.

Frequent entry and exit of merchant ships not only brought rich materials, but also brought the East, West, South, North and South of the distinctive culture, so the "merchant dock" derived from the "cultural dock".

Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage is based on such a social environment and has been gradually deposited and developed. Shanghai's intangible cultural heritage has a wide variety of cultural resources, covering almost all the categories currently on the list of China's intangible cultural heritage.

As a famous historical and cultural city, Shanghai possesses rich and colorful cultural heritage resources with unique characteristics, including not only precious tangible cultural heritage, but also a lot of "intangible cultural heritage" passed down from generation to generation in the form of oral transmission, traditional performing arts, folk activities, rituals, festivals, traditional handicrafts and other intangible forms. ".

There are folk songs (such as Netshan Song, Longshan Song, and Crying Marriage Song), folk stories (such as farmers' stories in suburban counties and new stories in urban areas), and folk legends (such as the Legend of the City God Temple and the Legend of the Seven Treasures), all of which have a strong rural character, and there are also theater and music arts (such as Shanghai Opera, Peking Opera, and One-Legged Opera) and handicrafts (such as embroidery, weaving, paper-cutting, and woodblock prints) with a distinctive urban culture.

There are folk trades reflecting the characteristics of Shanghai's commercial culture (such as old shops, folk medicine and small hot faints), as well as festivals and temples showing the local flavor (such as the Longhua Temple Fair, the Three Patrols, the Yuyuan Lantern Festival and the Dragon Boat Race).

Municipal List-Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Network