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What is humanistic culture and what is material culture?

The so-called material culture refers to the material process and material products that condense, embody and entrust people's lifestyles, living conditions, thoughts and feelings.

The so-called intangible culture refers to people's spiritual home.

Cultural heritage includes material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage.

Material cultural heritage is mainly cultural relics with historical, artistic and scientific values, including movable cultural relics and immovable cultural relics. Immovable cultural relics refer to ancient cultural sites, ancient tombs, ancient buildings, cave temples, stone carvings, murals, important historical sites in modern times and representative buildings. Movable cultural relics refer to important objects, works of art, documents, manuscripts, books and materials, representative objects, etc. In various periods of history, it is divided into precious cultural relics and general cultural relics; Precious cultural relics are divided into first-class cultural relics, second-class cultural relics and third-class cultural relics.

Intangible cultural heritage refers to various forms of traditional cultural expressions (such as folk activities, performing arts, traditional knowledge and skills, and related utensils, articles, handicrafts, etc.). ) and the cultural space closely related to the lives of generations. The scope of intangible cultural heritage includes: poems, myths, epics, stories, legends and proverbs that have been passed down from mouth to mouth for a long time among the people; Music, dance, drama, folk art, acrobatics, puppets, shadow play and other traditional folk performing arts; Life etiquette, festival activities, festivals, folk sports and competitions handed down from generation to generation by the general public, and other customs related to production and life; Folk traditional knowledge and practice about nature and the universe; Traditional handicraft skills; Cultural places related to the above-mentioned cultural expressions, etc.