What are the Intangible Cultural Heritage of China besides Ansai Waist Drums?

There are many intangible cultural heritages in China, such as: Kunqu Opera, Mongolian Long Tune Folk Songs, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Seal Engraving, Chinese Paper Cutting, Nanjing Yunjin Weaving Technique, Dong Daqi Song, Humai, Tibetan Opera, Xuanpian Paper, Xi'an Drums and Peking Opera, and so on.

The intangible cultural heritage refers to all kinds of traditional cultural expressions that exist in intangible form, which are closely related to the life of the masses and have been inherited from generation to generation. Intangible cultural heritage is a people-oriented living cultural heritage, which emphasizes the skills, experience and spirit centered on human beings, and is characterized by a living flux.

1, Chinese paper-cutting:

Paper-cutting, also known as paper-carving, is a kind of openwork art. It is one of the oldest folk arts of the Han Chinese. Its visually gives people the feeling of airy and artistic enjoyment. The carrier of paper cutting can be paper, gold and silver foil, bark, leaves, cloth, leather. The most representative is the northern Shanxi Jiangping paper-cutting, developed into multi-color, set of colors, color and beauty, the formation of a "simple in the complexity, complexity and harmony, and in the difference" of the original color, colorful art language.

Paper-cutting is a folk art form with a long history and wide circulation in rural China. Paper-cutting is the use of scissors to cut paper into a variety of patterns, such as window, door paper, wall flowers, ceiling flowers, lanterns - and so on. The creation and spread of this folk art is closely related to the festive customs in rural China. During the New Year festivals or wedding celebrations, the word "Xi" is often posted, and people put the beautiful and brightly colored paper cuttings on snow-white walls or brightly colored windows, doors, lanterns, etc., so that the festive atmosphere is rendered very rich and festive. The art of paper-cutting is a traditional Han Chinese folk craft, which has a long history and is a treasure of Chinese folk art and has become a treasure in the world's art treasury. The simple, vivid and interesting artistic modeling has a unique artistic charm. Its characteristics are mainly manifested in the spatial concept of two-dimensionality, knife flavor paper sense, lines and decorations, writing and allegory and many other aspects.

2. Chinese Calligraphy

Calligraphy is the most classic symbol of Chinese traditional culture and art over the past five thousand years. It is the art form of writing Chinese characters with brushes and having aesthetic inertia. Calligraphy can be called China's "fourth religion", with a strong sense of attraction, ritual and public participation, so there are more than 5,000 years, the representative figures of the various periods of time is as bright as a river of stars, the most important figures are Wang Xizhi, Yan Zhenqing, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Zhao Mengfu, Zhu Yunming, Wang Duoduo, Liu Gongquan, Su Shi, Yu Bo, Ouyang Xun, Yu ShiNan, Weed Suiliang and so on. Liang, and so on. The techniques emphasize brushwork, brushstrokes, pointing and drawing, structure, inking and marking, etc., and are closely related to traditional Chinese painting and seal-carving.

3, Xuan paper

Xuan paper is China's traditional classical calligraphy and painting paper, is one of the traditional paper-making process of the Han nationality, originated in Jing County, Xuan City, Anhui Province, Xuan City, Xuan City in the name of the capital city, so called "Xuan paper".

The fame of Xuan paper began in the Tang Dynasty, Tang painting and calligraphy critic Zhang Yanyuan's "famous paintings through the ages," cloud: "good thing home should set Xuan paper hundred, the use of the law of wax, in order to prepare for the copying." This shows that the Tang Dynasty has been used for calligraphy and painting. According to the "Old Tang Book" records, Tianbao two years (743 years), Jiangxi, Sichuan, Anhui, South Anhui, Zhedong are produced paper tribute, and Xuancheng County paper is particularly exquisite. It can be seen that Xuan paper at that time has been the crown in all parts of the world. Li Yu, the Southern Tang Dynasty, had personally supervised the production of "Chengxintang" paper, is the treasures of Xuan paper, it "skin like egg membrane, clean as jade, thin and moist, the crown at a time." Xuan paper has "tough and can be wet, light and not slippery, white and dense, pure texture, rubbing and folding without damage, strong ink" and other characteristics, and has a unique penetration, lubricating properties. Writing is both bone and God, painting is brilliant, become the most reflective of the Chinese art style of painting and calligraphy paper, the so-called "ink in five colors," that is, a pen into the depth of the intensity of the texture is visible, the ink rhyme is clear, clear hierarchy, this is the use of Xuan paper ink ink, control the proportion of ink and water, the stroke of the pen speed Xu Xu chi and achieve a kind of artistic effect! This is a kind of artistic effect achieved by calligraphers utilizing the moistening of Xuan paper, controlling the proportion of ink and water, and the speed of the brush. Coupled with aging resistance, no discoloration. Few moths, long life, so there is "the king of paper, a thousand years of life paper" reputation. In the nineteenth century in Panama International Paper Competition won the gold medal. Xuan paper in addition to poetry and painting, or writing diplomatic notes, preservation of high-level archives and the best paper for history. Our country has handed down a large number of rare ancient books, calligraphy and painting ink, most of the Xuan paper preservation, still like the beginning.