On July 27, Vancouver local time, the 2024 Chinese Traditional Culture Festival hosted by the Chinese Federation of Canada was grandly held in Burnaby, Vancouver, and since its inception, with the efforts of the organizers and the support and participation of all walks of life in Greater Vancouver, the Chinese Traditional Culture Festival has become an important platform for the Greater Vancouver to display the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Wu Wei, vice chairman of Henan Photographers Association, was invited to participate in the cultural festival and carried out a special exhibition of "Let the World Feel Intangible Cultural Heritage" artisan culture into Canada.
At the opening ceremony of the traditional culture festival, photographer Wu Wei and Niu Hua, president of the Chinese Federation of Canada, signed a strategic cooperation agreement on the export of Central Plains culture.
Located in the Central Plains, Henan is the birthplace of Chinese culture, with well-known ceramics at home and abroad, unique woodblock New Year paintings, paper-cutting and other excellent traditional skills, as well as rich cultural relics and historic sites, folk customs and other resources, providing rich connotation and broad space for cultural exchanges between the Chinese and Canadian peoples. Wu Wei was invited by the organizer to participate in the exhibition, not only bringing his long-term attention and photography works of South Africa, but also bringing the intangible cultural heritage works of 20 people, including Miao Changqiang, a national non-genetic inheritor of Jun porcelain, and Zhang Tingxu, a woodblock print of Zhu Xianzhen. The intangible cultural heritage works and images from Henan have crossed time and space and crossed countries, creating a more attractive image of China at the Canada Chinese Heritage Festival, allowing local Chinese and international friends to get close to Henan's excellent traditional culture and feel the unique charm of Chinese civilization.
Wu Wei, vice chairman of the Henan Photographers Association, brought his long-term photographs of intangible cultural heritage inheritors to the exhibition.
On the same day, Yang Shu, the Chinese Consul General in Vancouver, who attended the event, came to the exhibition area to watch and highly praised and appreciated the appearance and display of South Africa's heritage at the Chinese Traditional Culture Festival. He pointed out that pluralistic symbiosis is the characteristic of Chinese culture, and Henan's exhibits have exported Chinese culture well, adding highlights to this traditional cultural festival, and he looks forward to continuing to hold cultural activities in Canada in the future, building a bridge of cultural communication, allowing more traditional Chinese cultural brands to appear in Canada, and promoting multicultural exchanges and mutual learning between China and Canada.
Wu Wei said that the successful holding of this event in Vancouver is the first step of the overseas theme exhibition of "Let the World Perceive Intangible Cultural Heritage". Through intangible cultural heritage, it shows cultural self-confidence, enhances the pride of the Chinese nation, allows South Africa heritage to tell Chinese stories well, and allows South Africa heritage to witness mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations, realizing the far-reaching significance and value of "borrowing the sea".
This overseas intangible cultural heritage exhibition has enhanced the influence and popularity of the Central Plains culture in the world, allowing more people to understand and fall in love with the Central Plains culture, recognize and identify with Chinese culture, and also to attract more international friends to come to Henan for tourism, investment and business, promote exchanges and cooperation between Henan and the world, and promote the protection and innovative development of intangible cultural heritage.
Review: Wei Yafei
Editor: Yang Junqi
Photo: Su Rui