Dragon dance in Anhui, lantern festival in Shanghai, paper cutting in Hunan, Jin embroidery in Shanxi... This Spring Festival, the taste of the year across the country has a "cultural taste". The aesthetics and skills of intangible cultural heritage have been reborn at the end of the year.
"Intangible Cultural Heritage" - Audio-visual Feast
The molten iron collided with the dancing "dragon body", and the sparks burst through the night sky, imposing and magnificent. During the Spring Festival, Puding County, Guizhou, held the "Iron Water Rushing Dragon" intangible cultural heritage exhibition in the Qianshan Xiushui Tourist Scenic Area, which is an activity with a history of nearly 100 years and is listed as the intangible cultural heritage of Guizhou Province.
"Molten Iron Rushing Dragon" intangible cultural heritage performance
Dragon dance, dry boat, lion dance, Roche lantern art, Lao Lai Le, sandpiper mussel fight, fire lion lantern, West Wood horse lantern, green lion... In the "Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year" concentrated exhibition held in Guangde City, Anhui Province since a few years ago, 11 special folk programs were staged in turn, which won applause from the audience from time to time.
Anhui Guangde "Intangible Cultural Heritage New Year" concentrated exhibition and performance site
In Matang Village, Songtao County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province, intangible cultural heritage activities to celebrate the Chinese New Year are in full swing. The most striking thing is a cappella original group dance - "Flower Inspiration". Its rhythm is clear and cheerful, the movements are dashing and beautiful, the style is simple and elegant, and it presents scenes such as farming and celebration. In 2005, the "flower inspiration" of pine peach was included in the first provincial list of intangible cultural heritage.
Local people dance "flower inspiration" to celebrate the Chinese New Year
"Intangible Cultural Heritage" - Skill Inheritance
The light radiates outward through the hollow of the big red paper cutout, and the rounded rabbit is surrounded by spirit snakes, which is "snake coiled rabbit, generation and prosperity". In 2009, the Chinese paper-cutting project was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Every Spring Festival, paper-cutting enthusiasts in Changning, Hunan Province gather at the home of Liu Dan, president of the Paper-cutting Society, to learn new paper-cutting techniques and create red and festive paper-cutting works, using intangible cultural heritage to bring out the rich taste of the Chinese New Year.
Liu Dan, a paper-cutting artist in Changning, Hunan Province, presents new paper-cutting works in the Year of the Rabbit
During the Spring Festival, in Jingsheng Ancient Town, Shanxi, where the famous royal courtyard is located, lively New Year buns, lively rowing boat performances, and exquisite Jin embroidery integrated "intangible cultural heritage" into the taste of the New Year.
Shanxi Jingsheng ancient town Wang family tofu banquet
Intangible cultural heritage embroidery exhibited in Jingsheng Ancient Town, Shanxi
"Intangible Cultural Heritage" - New Branches of Ancient Trees
During the Spring Festival holiday, Shanghai's cultural tourism industry used intangible cultural heritage resources to promote traditional folk customs into communities, business districts and scenic spots. With the theme of the Year of the Rabbit, the Huangpu District Yuyuan Lantern Festival uses the intangible cultural heritage lantern group to brilliantly interpret the traditional myth "Classic of Mountains and Seas", creating a mythical journey "Yu", attracting a large number of citizens and tourists.
Yuyuan Garden Lantern Club main light group
In 2009, Anting medicinal cloth printing and dyeing skills, which were inscribed on the "Second List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Shanghai", have been dyed with the atmosphere of the new era in the hands of inheritors. During the Spring Festival, the intangible cultural heritage inheritors created a wide variety of unique intangible cultural heritage works with the theme of the Year of the Rabbit.
A series of luggage dolls made by Liu Yucheng, the inheritor of Shanghai Anting medicine spotted cloth