Intangible cultural heritage, including all heritage, needs to be looked at from a different perspective. Protection, inheritance, promotion, and development should be carried out on what scale and in what measure. Society is developing, and the wheel of history will not stop moving forward. Heritage, is heritage, not the whole of real life, not even the mainstream. What we have created through our work will only be the legacy of future generations, and will not become the mainstream of their lives. To put it bluntly, protection is protection. How to protect is a question worth asking. Someone in Changzhou proposed that in order to protect the cultural heritage of tin opera, it is necessary to let tin opera enter the campus and let the next generation inherit and carry it forward. I quite disagree with that. I remember that many years ago, someone proposed that Peking Opera should be introduced into the classroom and that young people should inherit the "national treasure", but I strongly disagreed. At that time, I thought about it from the perspective of "reducing the burden" of elementary and middle school students. In fact, from the perspective of the autonomy and diversity of spiritual and cultural life, bringing traditional drama into the classroom is suspected of forcing the next generation to accept the style of drama culture.
Another thing that comes to mind many years ago. Many netizens on China's Changzhou Network proposed to let the Changzhou dialect enter the campus, otherwise the next generation of Changzhou people will not speak the Changzhou dialect, and the traditional culture of this place will disappear. I was totally against this proposal at the time. There are three reasons, one is that primary and secondary school students have an excessive learning burden, and they need to reduce the burden on studentsSecond, if language is a tool for interpersonal communication, if you spend a lot of energy on tools (various dialects), how much time do you have to use tools?The unified popularization of Mandarin is to reduce the time and energy cost of mastering communication tools;Third, there are five or six thousand languages in the world, and there are thousands of local dialects in China, even if Changzhou, urban and rural, east and west of the city are different, who is the standard for Changzhou dialect, and why is it necessary for rural students to learn urban accent dialects?
I have questioned whether local dialects are considered traditional culture or cultural heritageLater I learned that the answer was yes. The definition of "intangible cultural heritage" in the Convention includes, first and foremost, "oral traditions and expressions, including languages as mediums of intangible cultural heritage". China's "Intangible Cultural Heritage Law" refers to "intangible cultural heritage", which also includes "traditional oral literature and the language as its carrier". Since dialects are considered "intangible cultural heritage" and must be protected, the cost of bringing them into the classroom is undoubtedly not small, and the cost of interpersonal communication in the context of dialects is also overwhelming. How to resolve this contradiction?The author believes that it is necessary to standardize the methods and standards for the protection of dialects. Protecting dialects does not mean that they must be used for everyday communication.
The jade of other mountains can be used for reference. Britain has a long history and rich cultural resources, and can be called a country of cultural heritage. All national museums in the country are open to the general public, including students, free of charge, and all heritage sites are open to primary and secondary schools, which include visits to museums and cultural sites. Therefore, we don't have to cram drama and dialects into the classroom, we just need to store them in museumsThe school's social activities make it mandatory to visit museums, so that you can learn about intangible cultural heritage such as drama and dialects. For the local dialects, the next generation, other locals, and new citizens can also "understand" without spending a lot of effort to learn.