Dragon Boat Festival application: "Culture returns to its roots" is the prerequisite for sharing
During the Dragon Boat Festival, a piece of news about China resuming its Dragon Boat Festival application attracted widespread attention.
On May 27, the Hubei Province Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center confirmed that China has initiated the process of applying for World Intangible Cultural Heritage during the Dragon Boat Festival.
The project was submitted by Hubei Province to the United Nations on behalf of China.
The current "Dragon Boat Festival Application" has entered the preliminary evaluation stage.
(Morning News, May 28)
Before the Dragon Boat Festival in 2004, domestic public opinion burst into uproar when they heard that South Korea would declare "representative works of oral and intangible heritage of mankind" to the United Nations.
Some people shouted: Don't let Qu Yuan cry underground; some officials said: resolutely defend our Dragon Boat Festival.
In 2005, South Korea's "Dragon Boat Festival" application was successful.
At that time, some commentators pointed out that South Korea's successful application did not mean that China could no longer apply for Dragon Boat Festival heritage protection.
Four years later, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a national legal holiday.
It is reasonable that China's "Dragon Boat Festival Application" has attracted widespread attention.
To this day, some experts and people still express regret over the successful application of South Korea's "Dragon Boat Festival", believing that it was South Korea that robbed our cultural heritage.
This is actually a wrong cultural mentality.
You should know that the "Representative Works of Oral Heritage and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" itself focuses on "human culture" and stands from the perspective of mankind and the world.
From this perspective, culture is shared by the world.
The establishment of a declaration and evaluation mechanism is also to encourage and promote countries to better protect their cultural heritage.
Moreover, after South Korea's successful application for the "Dragon Boat Festival", judging from the application requirements and conditions, China experts also admitted that "there is nothing to blame from the application itself."
"The Jiangling Dragon Boat Festival is actually not the same thing as our Dragon Boat Festival." Gao Bingzhong, secretary-general of the China Folklore Society and professor at Peking University, believes that South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival is actually composed of dances, shaman sacrifices, folk art displays, etc.
This is two different things from China eating rice dumplings, rowing dragon boats, and commemorating Qu Yuan.
When South Korea declared the "Dragon Boat Festival", the first sentence was "Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival in China and has been spread to South Korea for more than 1500 years." Since the two have the same roots and the same origin, they obviously cannot be simply regarded as "not the same thing." If the Jiangling Dragon Boat Festival is completely separated from the Dragon Boat Festival in China so that China can succeed in its "Dragon Boat Festival" application, this practice of only emphasizing cultural characteristics and ignoring cultural commonalities is irresponsible.
Culture needs to be shared.
In fact, before South Korea declared the Dragon Boat Festival, South Korean folklore scholars had hoped to use the historical heritage of the Dragon Boat Festival in China's 2,000-year-old Dragon Boat Festival to jointly apply for the heritage.
The application for the "China Dragon Boat Festival" also includes the "Dragon Boat Festival Customs in Qu Yuan's Hometown" in Zigui County, Hubei Province, the "Xisai Shenzhou Conference" in Huangshi City, the "Dragon Boat Festival Customs along the Miluo River" in Minluo City, Hunan Province, and the "Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival Customs" in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province.
The application materials are jointly "packaged" by the three provinces.
There should be no cultural boundaries between provinces, and there should be no cultural boundaries between countries.
Hubei, Hunan, and Jiangsu can jointly apply for cultural heritage, but why can't China and South Korea jointly apply for cultural heritage, or apply separately?
South Korea's "Dragon Boat Festival" was successful in applying for a cultural heritage.
There are many experiences to learn from and many lessons to be learned.
Since it is a heritage, it is very clear and clear who it belongs to in history; the key lies in who inherits it well now, preserves and protects it well, which is the most important thing.
It is a good thing that South Korea's successful application for the "Dragon Boat Festival" is a good thing, and it is also a good thing that China has restarted its application for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Culture also requires competition.
Only through continuous sharing can China culture be recognized by the world; only through continuous competition can China culture continue to enhance its vitality.
Only by continuing and inheriting China's traditional culture can we truly improve the competitiveness of China culture.
In view of this, the "Dragon Boat Festival Heritage Application" is obviously not the end.
It is hoped that China will be able to root this culture through this "Dragon Boat Festival Heritage Application", deeply explore the cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival, and truly transform the Dragon Boat Festival from a "holiday" to a "festival", thus becoming the cohesion, guidance, inspiration and driving force of the Chinese nation.
Source: Information Times)