Intangible cultural heritage refers to various forms of traditional cultural expressions handed down from generation to generation by people of all ethnic groups and regarded as part of their cultural heritage, as well as articles and places related to traditional cultural expressions. ?

Intangible cultural heritage is an important symbol of a country and nation's historical and cultural achievements and an important part of excellent traditional culture. Intangible cultural heritage and material cultural heritage are relatively called cultural heritage.

"State"-Ownership of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Regarding "non-legacy", people often focus on the rescue of individual ethnic minorities, especially the ethnic cultures that are on the verge of extinction and have a small population base. This is an important aspect of the protection of intangible heritage, but it also raises a question: how to break through the intangible heritage of a single nation, a local area, a specific time and a certain industry, and discover the intangible heritage that has a universal influence on the members of 56 ethnic families, covers most parts of the country, and widely adapts to the whole society regardless of gender, wealth, industry and belief in the grand narrative of the Chinese nation.

"Invisibility" —— Characteristics of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Intangible cultural heritage is a people-oriented living cultural heritage, which emphasizes people-centered skills, experience and spirit. It is characterized by dynamic changes, highlighting intangible attributes, and emphasizing the existence quality independent of material form. However, in today's materialistic world where spiritual space is severely squeezed, "intangible cultural heritage" is inevitably materialized to varying degrees in the process of declaration. How to avoid the over-materialized packaging of intangible cultural heritage, break through the barriers and restrictions of material form, and maintain the intangible characteristics of "intangible heritage" is a necessary attitude to respect the heritage left by our ancestors.

Folding "Culture" —— Essence of Intangible Cultural Heritage

"Intangible heritage" has the function of civilizing people's rites and music. Most of them are expressions of ancestors' reverence and attitude towards sadness, life and death, marriage, ancestors, nature and heaven and earth, and they are life cultures that meet people's natural needs, social needs and spiritual needs. Its practicality is people-oriented. However, in the actual protection, the cultural quality of the heritage is constantly disappearing, and the utilitarian purpose is becoming more and more prominent. Even the preservation, declaration and protection of intangible heritage are strongly driven by interests. Not only the needs of individuals, but also the help of the local government make the application for World Heritage a local way of advertising, tourism promotion and value-added. What's more, the declaration of "intangible cultural heritage" is a process of alienation, commercialization, blasphemy and separation from cultural norms. Without the impulse of economic interests, not many people will pay attention to "non-legacy" from the cultural standard.

Some non-legacy representative projects

Zigong lantern festival

Zigong Lantern Festival? , Zigong City, Sichuan Province, local traditional folk customs, one of the national intangible cultural heritage. According to historical records, during the Tang and Song Dynasties, Zigong gradually formed the custom of burning lanterns in the New Year and decorating lanterns before and after the Lantern Festival. The formation of Lantern Festival in Zigong is a large-scale folk cultural activity with relatively fixed connotation in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was carried out at a specific time and has a certain inheritance route.

Dong people's big songs

Dong folk songs, which originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, have a history of more than 2,500 years. It is a folk chorus form with multi-voices, no command, no accompaniment and natural chorus in Dong area of China. During the period of 1986, at the Golden Autumn Art Festival in Paris, France, the Dong nationality's big song in Liping, Guizhou Province appeared, which was praised as "music shining like a clear spring, conveying the melody on the edge of an ancient dream".

Flower drum dance

Fengyang Flower Drum, also known as "Flower Drum", "Playing Flower Drum", "Flower Drum Gong" and "Double Drum", is a kind of folk performance art that integrates Quyi and song and dance, but the rap performance in the form of Quyi is the most important and famous, and it is generally believed that it was formed in the Ming Dynasty. Fengyang Flower Drum is mainly distributed in towns and villages such as Burning Lamp and Xiaoxihe in Fengyang County. The performance form of its folk art form is one or two people accompanied by gongs and drums, dancing and singing. In history, artists used this as a means to go out and beg, and Fengyang Flower Drum spread all over the country. During the reign of Kang Gan in Qing Dynasty, many literati's poems recorded the lively scenes of singing and dancing during the performance of Fengyang ancient paintings. After the mid-Qing Dynasty, the dance factor gradually faded out of the folk Fengyang Flower Drum, leaving only the singing part, which was divided into two forms: "sitting singing" and "singing the door"