Intangible cultural heritage enters the world and fireworks set off the steaming Chinese New Year

Mondo Gastronomy Updated on 2024-02-12

China News Service, Beijing, February 12 (Reporter Ying Ni) The fireworks in the world are when the flavor of the New Year is strong.

Since the beginning of February, the "Chinese lanterns have been lit up", and the Qinhuai River in Nanjing has been lit up with bright lights, and a real-life version of "Shangyuan Lantern Color" has been staged, and all parts of northern and southern China have celebrated the "Little Year" in the Ambilight; The ancient city is the most full of New Year's flavor, Shaanxi Yulin, Shanxi Pingyao, Guangdong Chaozhou, Hebei Zhengding have successively launched the "Ancient City for the New Year" activity, in the northern Shaanxi folk songs, Pingyao Shehuo and other intangible cultural heritage project performances, in the lanterns, dragon and lion dances, people share the beauty of intangible cultural heritage, taste the taste of intangible cultural heritage. According to incomplete statistics, during the Spring Festival this year, more than 10,000 intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and performances will be held in various places. Intangible cultural heritage performances are staged in turn.

The intangible cultural heritage is a good show, but it is a "trouble", flowing with a strong New Year's flavor. The folk parade of Ninghai Fishing Village in Zhejiang Province shows the local customs scene of "welcoming spring", "visiting spring" and "reporting spring" in three dimensions, and the fish lantern team, the ancient boat team, the mussel fairy team, the four generals and eight immortals team and so on are lively everywhere they go; In Yandu District, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, the 100-meter-long dragon dance team opened the way, and all kinds of folk activities such as majestic gongs and drums, running dry donkeys, swinging lake boats, playing lotus Xiang, stepping on stilts, and lion dances have appeared, and thousands of people have experienced the folk customs of stepping on the street; In the noisy sky of gongs and drums, the lion and dragon dances flying all over China set off a boom.

The intangible cultural heritage is a good show, but it is a "warm", flowing with nostalgia. In the steaming heat, the dragon head flower bun that has just come out of the cage drawer is colorful and playful; The fragrant and soft sticky Dingsheng cake carries the good meaning of the coming year; Drizzle a spoonful of fragrant tahini and you're ready for a delicious bowl of hot dry noodles, or a mouth-watering bowl of freshly fried hot noodles, a bowl ......of tofu skin or eggnogEvery out-of-town traveler has a unique hometown menu in his heart, and every time he returns to his hometown for the New Year, it is this dish that irons the stomach and heals homesickness.

On February 10, tourists watched the Yueqing jewelry dragon in the Year of the Dragon. Photo by China News Service reporter Ying Ni.

The intangible cultural heritage is a good show, but it is a "beauty", revealing the warmth of the veins. The red paper flying in the hands of the paper-cutting artist, in the rough and bold lines, is filled with the enthusiasm and simplicity of the yellow earth; Miao embroidery, Qiang embroidery inheritors finger the thread of the thread, full of gentleness, delicacy and elegance. The intangible cultural heritage of the Year of the Dragon is being held, and the Yueqing jewelry dragon from Zhejiang, a national intangible cultural heritage, has attracted a group photo from the audience: this dragon-shaped lantern has a complex production process, integrating carpentry, oil paint, paper tie, dragon lantern and other hundreds of crafts in one boat, through the ingenious mechanical transmission device to make more than 200 characters of different shapes on the hull of the ship lifelike, interpreting more than 80 drama scenes.

The intangible cultural heritage is a good show, but it is a "live", which has been circulated in a thousand-year-old context. The kiln in Jingdezhen is a thousand-year-old kiln fire, the needle of Chaozhou embroidery is a thousand worlds, and a table and two chairs on the Peking Opera stage can determine the ......China has set up more than 2,000 intangible cultural heritage workshops, bringing hundreds of thousands of people to employment. All localities have actively carried out "intangible cultural heritage into the campus", "intangible cultural heritage research season", "intangible cultural heritage + festivals" and "intangible cultural heritage + tourism" to help the national tide out of the circle, buy intangible cultural heritage on the Internet, enjoy intangible cultural heritage exhibitions at the "doorstep", experience the fun of handicrafts in scenic spots, and intangible cultural heritage come to the general public in a more diversified way.

Wang Xiaofeng, President of the China Association for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, pointed out that intangible cultural heritage is both traditional and contemporary. The combination of "intangible cultural heritage + Spring Festival", with the help of the festive atmosphere of the whole country and the whole family, provides the public with a new era scene of contacting intangible cultural heritage, understanding intangible cultural heritage, experiencing intangible cultural heritage and consuming intangible cultural heritage products. Let intangible cultural heritage be integrated into people's daily life, enter the fireworks in the world, and realize the living inheritance.

After being listed as a United Nations holiday, the Spring Festival is the only item for China to be inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2024. The famous scholar Feng Jicai called for the Spring Festival to be inscribed on the World Heritage List more than 10 years ago, and he has always emphasized that the Spring Festival is the greatest intangible cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, and all people are the inheritors. (ENDS).

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