Intangible cultural heritage records the important characteristics of human society's production and lifestyle, customs and human feelings, cultural concepts, etc., and contains the core factors such as cultural genes, spiritual characteristics, values, psychological structure, temperament and emotions of all ethnic groups in the world, and is a valuable wealth shared by all mankind. Therefore, the innovative inheritance of intangible cultural heritage has always attracted much attention, and the inheritors are looking for new elements and cultural integration under the maintenance of the original characteristics of culture. On November 4th, Tmall Guochao and CCTV-6 Movie Channel jointly created the "Rising Tide China • Intangible Cultural Heritage Renewal Night" intangible cultural public welfare celebration, intangible cultural heritage inheritors and artists explained to us the organic combination of science and technology, new trend elements and intangible cultural heritage.
Two intangible cultural works of art will be unveiled at the "Rising China Intangible Cultural Heritage Renewal Night" intangible cultural public welfare celebration, which are jointly completed by artists and non-genetic inheritors, and modern artists integrate trend elements and technologies into traditional techniques and styles, so that "intangible cultural heritage" will face the younger generation in a more modern form and glow with more vitality. Among them, there is "Liang Shang Gao Lou", artist Xie Cong re-created the straw carving works created on the theme of the Forbidden City Corner Tower. Xu Yanfeng, Xu Jian, two non-hereditary inheritors with sorghum poles carved a Forbidden City corner tower, the work itself is exquisite enough and ingenious, on this basis, Xie Cong added surreal elements, the Forbidden City corner towers were disassembled in layers, made into a suspended separation state, and the straw was carved into a fine vertical and horizontal cross structure, artistically transformed into a floating cross starlight in the space, so that the sorghum pole also lit up a little starlight, increasing the lively and romantic temperament, which made everyone intuitively feel the architectural beauty and humanistic heritage of the central axis of Beijing. It also gives us a glimpse of the charm of combining science and technology with intangible cultural heritage.
In addition to making innovations in straw carvings, craftsmen have also tried to incorporate new elements of the trend in the Su embroidery culture. The design of the illustrator Yi Ling in "Intangible Embroidery Spirit" reproduces the classic elements of Liang Xuefang's su embroidery works, such as lotus flowers, peonies, artificial mountain stones, spirit cats and carps, etc., and then focuses on the use of representative colors with their own style in color collision, and adds grid trend elements to the picture to break through the traditional rules. This makes "Intangible Embroidery Spirit" perfectly present the elements of Mr. Liang's representative works, while also adding a lively temperament to the picture. This innovative measure directly breaks the stereotype that "new elements" are opposed to traditional intangible cultural heritage, shows the vitality of "new elements" to intangible cultural heritage, and brings new aesthetic possibilities to people.
Whether it is the use of science and technology to make the straw carving works light up "a little starlight", or the use of new elements to give Su embroidery culture a kind of "lattice fashion", this is the cultural inheritor's thinking and attempt at the innovative inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. However, the innovation and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage has a long way to go, non-genetic inheritors and artists are still looking for more possibilities for combining intangible cultural heritage with new technology, and the intangible cultural public welfare celebration activity of "Rising China • Intangible Cultural Heritage Renewal Night" will lead us to appreciate more scientific and technological innovation and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, allowing us to imagine the infinite possibilities of Chinese traditional culture to the future and the world. The cooperation between the artists and the non-hereditary inheritors is a practice of AntChain's integration of science and technology and culture, which can not only promote traditional culture, but also let more young people understand our culture.