Characteristics of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Intangible cultural heritage refers to various forms of traditional cultural expressions that exist in intangible forms and are closely related to people's lives and passed down from generation to generation. Intangible cultural heritage is a people-oriented living cultural heritage, which emphasizes people-centered skills, experience and spirit and is characterized by living changes.

Highlight non-material attributes, and emphasize the quality of existence independent of material form. However, in today's society, where materialistic desires and spiritual space are severely squeezed, "intangible heritage" is inevitably materialized to varying degrees in the process of declaration.

How to avoid the over-materialized packaging of intangible cultural heritage, break through the barriers and restrictions of material form, and maintain the intangible characteristics of "intangible heritage" is a necessary attitude to respect the heritage left by our ancestors.

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The Origin of Intangible Cultural Heritage

"Intangible heritage" is the cultural wealth that our ancestors preserved to modern times through the use of daily life. In the long river of history, it is naturally generated and constantly developed. Although this intangible cultural heritage passed down from generation to generation is constantly innovating with the change of environment, its relationship with nature, historical conditions of the nation, cultural identity and historical sense of the heritage remain unchanged.

Modern "non-legacy", how to preserve the natural state and authenticity of the remains, how to reduce artificial components, how to continue to maintain routines, how to reduce festivals, how to enhance practicality, how to reduce performance, how to embody the people, and how to reduce the official, is to restore the role inherited by predecessors to future generations. Without this role, the legacy becomes a burden.

In particular, the "intangible heritage" seen in modern times is mostly formed in the farming era and preserved in relatively closed and backward places. Whether it can continue to play its role in the tide of modernization and how to avoid being assimilated by modernity are issues that filial sons and grandchildren who are qualified to inherit the inheritance must consider.

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