Five intangible cultural heritages to be lost

Five Intangible Cultural Heritage to be Lost

Straw Shoes

Straw shoes, a kind of shoes woven with grass, were the longest-worn shoes in ancient China. Straw shoes have a long history as the ancestor of the shoe, its simple workmanship, low price by the ancient masses, the Three Kingdoms period of Liu Bei had sold straw shoes, it is said that demand exceeds supply. With the development and progress of society, grass shoes were gradually replaced by cloth shoes, rubber shoes, leather shoes, etc., grass shoes completed its historical mission.

Because of the lack of market, the status of straw shoes fell, the craftsmen who made straw shoes also have to change careers, young people are not willing to learn, this skill is gradually going to the endangered.

Curium

Curium, porcelain, is broken porcelain, like staples with metal "curium", repair, and ensure that no droplets. "No diamond drill, do not take porcelain work", which began to refer to this folk craft. As early as in the "Qingming Shanghe Tu", you can see the street in the "curium porcelain" scene. Today, colored porcelain technology is mature, inexpensive, buy porcelain than curium porcelain more cost-effective, this skill is gradually eliminated by the times.

Qiang flute

Qiang flute is China's ancient single-reed air musical instruments, has a history of more than 2,000 years, popular in northern Sichuan Aba Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, where the Qiang people live.

The Qiang flute is often recorded in the poems of Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming literati, and Wang Zhilu's Liangzhou Lyrics contains the famous line: "The Qiang flute has no need to complain about the willow, and the spring breeze does not pass through the Yumen Pass."

The Wenchuan earthquake of 2008 struck an important Qiang area in China, and a number of scholars specializing in the study of this culture were killed, and the Qiang flute has been used for many years to play the Qiang flute, and has been popular for more than 2,000 years in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. People who can play the Qiang flute can be counted on one hand.

Playing tree flowers

Playing tree flowers is to use molten iron to splash onto the walls of the ancient city and form ten thousand sparks, which is called "tree flowers" because it looks like a leafy canopy, and its degree of grandeur is no less spectacular than setting off fireworks. The poet Li Bai once described the tree flowers: "The fire shines in the sky and the earth, and the red stars mess up the purple smoke", which shows the grandeur of the tree flowers. Now this ancient art has been replaced by fireworks.

Shell carving

Shell carving, is the use of the natural texture and shape of the shell, after grinding and carving crafts. Shell carving culture in China has a long history, as early as five thousand years ago, the ancient people of China's coastal areas have the custom of shell carving. Today, due to the shell carving production process is very complex, training a shell carving workers and need a long time, young people generally lose interest in this traditional craft, shell carving this craft into the doldrums.