Ecuadorian Panamanian straw hat.
Sri Lankan marionettes.
North Sea shell carving. 
Morning Post reporter Xu Yimei, Wu Jiaxiao, text.
The Silk Road is blooming, and thousands of intangible cultural heritage treasures are gathered. Yesterday, the 3rd Maritime Silk Road Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition was held. With the theme of "Millennium Silk Road, Brilliant Intangible Cultural Heritage", this year's intangible cultural heritage exhibition focuses on 116 intangible cultural heritage items from 15 countries (including China), including 16 items on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List and 84 national intangible cultural heritage items. "National treasure" masters at home and abroad gathered together to display intangible cultural heritage and interact with the public. The event was held in the Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Hall and the Badminton Hall of the Qiaoxiang Gymnasium in the Quanzhou Overseas Chinese Sports Center, which will last until the 12th, and citizens and tourists should not miss it.
The hat is so pretty!In the Panama Straw Hats Exhibition Area, a world-class intangible cultural heritage project, the brightly colored handmade straw hats attracted many children to stop and watch, and Alessandro, a 20-year-old intangible cultural heritage inheritor, and his 18-year-old sister enthusiastically introduced them to the visitors. Alessandro said that his family has been practicing the craft in Ecuador for more than 30 years, and that he studied under his father, and that this time he brought with him pieces designed by the siblings. The wide-brimmed straw hats are traditionally hand-knitted, and each one is meticulously polished to ensure quality and durability, as well as a variety of backpacks, sweaters and more.
Quanzhou marionette is already very familiar to everyone, Sri Lankan marionette has you seen?The 44-year-old and his 77-year-old father, the fifth-generation Sri Lankan marionette, and his 10-year-old son have also started learning Xi. Ganwary said that two days ago, they enjoyed the Quanzhou handheld puppet performance, and he felt that the Quanzhou puppets were small and compact, and the Sri Lankan marionettes presented a lively and interesting performance for the audience through elements such as **, singing and dancing.
On the fifth floor of the Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, the Maritime Silk Road International Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition invites intangible cultural heritage inheritors from countries along the Maritime Silk Road and ASEAN countries to display on site, covering 20 intangible cultural heritage items from 14 countries, including Italy, Romania, Malaysia, Nepal, Senegal, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Russia, Georgia, Sweden, Kuwait, Egypt, etc., of which 8 are world-class intangible cultural heritage items.
Can you imagine that a straw or an ordinary seashell with ears peeled off can be made into a beautiful craft?
This wheat straw painting "Siberian Tiger", except for the eyes and beard, is made of wheat straw. Ma Wenxia, a 69-year-old from Harbin, is the national representative inheritor of the wheat straw cut-and-paste technique, a national intangible cultural heritage project, and has studied the skill for 51 years. She introduced that the wheat straw has to go through more than ten processes such as steaming, dyeing, ironing, etc., and draw on artistic techniques such as Chinese painting to form handicrafts. After hundreds of years of inheritance, they continue to innovate and apply traditional skills to daily necessities, so that intangible cultural heritage skills can be continuously inherited and promoted.
There are tens of thousands of species of shellfish in the world, and only 30 species can be used for carving. He Mingjun, the inheritor of intangible cultural heritage, said that the national intangible cultural heritage project Beihai shell carving uses pearl shells and colored shells, and a small feather brooch must go through several processes to be carefully carved to make it. Because the shell carving does not add any pigments, the handicrafts can be preserved permanently. "This exhibition provides us with an opportunity to learn and exchange ideas with our intangible cultural heritage colleagues. ”
In addition to foreign intangible cultural heritage items, 54 national intangible cultural heritage items from Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces and cities along the Silk Road were also invited to display in the badminton hall of the Qiaoxiang Gymnasium, covering stone carving, wood carving, embroidery, etc. The "Southern Fujian Cultural Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition", which is composed of intangible cultural heritage projects in Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Quanzhou, was held on the same stage as the domestic and foreign intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, in which Quanzhou displayed world-class intangible cultural heritage such as oolong tea making skills (Tieguanyin production skills), watertight compartments (Fuchuan manufacturing skills), and traditional Fujian folk house construction skills, realizing the "dialogue" of intangible cultural heritage treasures at home and abroad on the same stage.
For the first time, the intangible cultural heritage exhibition was jointly created by domestic and foreign countries to create an "intangible cultural heritage exhibition without walls", attracting foreign network experts from Russia, the United States, Nigeria and Thailand to come to Quanzhou, and Internet celebrities took netizens from all over the world to experience intangible cultural heritage, visit Quanzhou scenic spots, and witness the convergence and integration of different regional cultures in the world.