Hunan's Intangible Cultural Heritage Shown at International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival

The 8th International Festival of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) opened in Chengdu, Sichuan Province on October 12, 2023. Hunan's 12 ICH items will be presented at the festival. 

The opening ceremony of the 8th International Festival of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Sichuan's Chengdu.

The festival sets up specific areas and a "cloud" channel to display intangible cultural heritage items of the world, China, and Sichuan Province. More than 30 exhibitions and shows will be staged to showcase the international achievements in intangible cultural heritage protection and share with the world China's experiences of implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. Over 900 intangible cultural heritage items, more than 1,800 traditional crafts inheritors, and over 3,000 performers from 47 countries and regions around the world, as well as more than 1,800 Chinese and foreign guests will participate in the event.

Twelve Hunan ICH items are displayed. (Photo provided by the correspondent)

Hunan recommended 12 intangible cultural heritage items to be shown at different areas and activities of the festival, including:

Dark tea making technique (Fu brick tea) and yellow tea making technique (Junshan silver needle tea) will be displayed at the exhibition area of Chinese intangible cultural heritage items;

Hunan embroidery, Wu's wood carving, and Yangwuling kilning technique will be presented at an international intangible cultural heritage IP show;

Jiuzhitang traditional Chinese medicine will participate in a traditional Chinese medicine conference;

Hunan embroidery, and the cross-stitch skills of Huayao and Miao people will be shown at the Anjing International Embroidery Art Festival;

Yiyang's bamboo weaving will be displayed at the Daoming International Bamboo Culture Week;

Brocade weaving craftsmanship of Dong and Tujia people will be presented at the cultural tourism promotion week; and,

Dong Dong Kui, a vertical flute of Tujia people, will be performed at a Chinese traditional instrumental music week. 

The festival is co-hosted by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and the National Commission of the People's Republic of China for UNESCO. The Intangible Cultural Heritage Chengdu Forum, and a training to cultivate instructors of intangible cultural heritage protection capacity in the Asian-Pacific Region, will be held during the festival.

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Pang Yuehui

Chinese source: Voice of Hunan