What's the difference between cultural relics and cultural heritage?

First, cultural relics are a part of material cultural heritage, including cultural relics and other material cultural heritage that is not cultural relics. The two are subordinate and total.

Second, cultural relics:

1 is a relic left by human beings in the process of historical development. It is a precious historical and cultural heritage of mankind.

2. Cultural relics refer to concrete material remains, whose basic characteristics are: first, they must be created by human beings or related to human activities; Second, it must be an irreversible past.

3. At present, the names of cultural relics in different countries are not consistent, and the meanings and scope are different, so a unified definition of cultural relics has not yet been formed.

Ii. Material and cultural heritage: Cultural heritage, also known as "tangible cultural heritage", refers to "cultural heritage" in the traditional sense. According to the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (hereinafter referred to as the World Heritage Convention), it includes historical sites, historical buildings and human cultural sites.

1, cultural relics, buildings, inscriptions, sculptures, books, calligraphy and painting, archaeological components or structures, inscriptions, caves and consortia with outstanding universal value from the perspective of history, art or science;

2 buildings, from the historical, artistic or scientific point of view, have outstanding universal value in architectural style, uniform distribution or combination with environmental scenery;

3, cultural sites, from the perspective of history, aesthetics, ethnology or anthropology, with outstanding universal value of human engineering or natural and human joint engineering and archaeology and other fields.