Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, added 20 representative inheritors of provincial intangible cultural heritage

A few days ago, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hebei Province announced the list of representative inheritors of the sixth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Hebei Province, and 20 people, including Huo Zengming, the representative inheritor of the "Xiwangzhuang Silk String" in Shijiazhuang City, were selected, involving 5 categories such as traditional drama, traditional sports and acrobatics, traditional art, traditional skills and traditional medicine. At this point, the number of representative inheritors of provincial intangible cultural heritage in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, has increased to 145.

List of representative inheritors of the sixth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Hebei Province (Shijiazhuang City). Photo courtesy of Shijiazhuang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism

Representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage are important bearers and transmitters of intangible cultural heritage, and are the core of intangible cultural heritage protection and living inheritance. Shijiazhuang City will conscientiously implement the work policy of "protection first, rescue first, rational utilization, inheritance and development", focus on comprehensively improving the ability and level of intangible cultural heritage protection, support and encourage representative inheritors to carry out transmission and dissemination activities, promote the integration of intangible cultural heritage into the times, integration into production and life, and achieve creative transformation and innovative development in the contemporary practice of the people, so as to make greater contributions to the inheritance and promotion of China's excellent traditional culture.