The survey shows that qinghai ethnic minority intangible cultural heritage projects account for more than 90%.

The picture shows the citizens visiting the Qinghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition.　Photo by Li Jiangning

Xining, January 4 (China News Network) According to the Qinghai Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism on the 4th, the Department recently completed a survey of the intangible cultural heritage resources of the Yellow River Basin in Qinghai Province. The survey shows that the four-level list system supplemented by the city (prefecture) level and county (district) level intangible cultural heritage projects in Qinghai Province has been basically established, and the projects cover ten categories of intangible cultural heritage, and the overall layout is more reasonable, and ethnic minority intangible cultural heritage projects account for more than 90%.

According to the survey statistics, Qinghai Province currently has 2361 fourth-level intangible cultural heritage lists and 3160 representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, including 88 national intangible cultural heritage items (including 6 representative lists of intangible cultural heritage of mankind), 238 provincial intangible cultural heritage items, 782 city (state) level intangible cultural heritage items, 1253 county (district) level intangible cultural heritage items, 88 representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage (16 deceased, 72 at present), 343 provincial representative inheritors (36 deceased, 307 at present), municipal ( There are 1163 representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage at the state level and 1566 representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage at the county (district) level.

In addition, the representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in Qinghai Province show the characteristics of combining the old, the middle and the young; there are 244 intangible cultural heritage project protection units recognized in Qinghai Province, of which 42 are at the national level, 66 are at the provincial level, 62 are at the municipal (prefecture) level, 74 are at the county (district) level, 90% of the protection units are provincial, municipal (state) and county (district) cultural centers, 10% are associations, enterprises and Tibetan hospitals, etc., and there are cross-border project protection units at all levels. In addition to the protection units, there are 328 non-genetic heritage display and inheritance sites set up in the province, of which 135 have financial support at all levels and 193 are self-financed and put into use by the society.

Among the representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage at all levels identified in Qinghai Province, 20% are young inheritors (20-35 years old), 35% are middle-aged inheritors (35-55 years old), and 45% are elderly inheritors (over 55 years old), which is more obvious that the "aging" among national and provincial inheritors is more serious, especially the average age of national inheritors is over 55 years old, and 16 and 36 of the identified national and provincial inheritors have passed away, respectively.

In the next step, Qinghai Province will continue to increase the implementation of intangible cultural heritage protection, continue to do a good job in the use and research of survey data, and play its due role in enhancing cultural self-confidence and cultural identity, promoting excellent traditional culture, promoting the cultural prosperity of Qinghai Province, driving local economic and social development, and helping the implementation of the strategy of rural revitalization. (End)