China's Li brocade skills were included in the first batch of "Intangible Cultural Heritage List in Urgent Need of Protection"

China News Agency, Haikou, October 3.

According to a report by Hainan Daily today, the Fourth Regular Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of UNESCO officially approved the inclusion of Hainan Province's "Li Traditional Textile, Dye, Weaving and Embroidery Skills" in the first batch of UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in urgent need of protection marks the final success of Li brocade's application for world intangible cultural heritage.

According to reports, a total of eight countries around the world submitted twelve candidate projects to be included in the "List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urgent Need of Protection" at this meeting.

The three projects declared by China,"Qiang Nian" and "China's Traditional Wood Arch Bridge Construction Skills" and "Li Traditional Spinning, Dyeing, Weaving and Embroidery Skills" have all been included in the list.

For the first batch of heritage projects selected for inclusion in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urgent Need of Protection, the State Party must commit to formulating a special protection plan and will be able to obtain funding from funds specially established for this purpose.

United Nations review experts spoke highly of Hainan Li brocade's skills.

Regarding the textile technology of the Li people living in Hainan, China, including their spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills, especially dyeing, single-sided weaving and double-sided embroidery skills, experts believe that these textile skills have a long history and have been passed down from generation to generation through oral and physical methods.

It has continued from the pre-Qin Dynasty to this day and still plays an important role in the social and cultural life of the Li people.

Experts also believe that because the Li people had no written language, textile activities became the main way to record their history, and the way this activity was carried out made it a collective intangible heritage.

Therefore, Li textiles have made important contributions to China's cotton textile tradition and to the world's handicraft heritage in a unique and exemplary way.

Deng Jinghua, head of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center of Hainan Province, said that in the future, Hainan will focus on protecting and cultivating inheritors of Li traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills, establishing inheritance villages, encouraging families to maintain or restore mother-daughter inheritance methods, so that this skill can be inherited.

At the same time, it will establish a spinning and dyeing raw material base, and build files and databases of Li traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills to provide services for the protection, inheritance and utilization of the project.

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An English message disclosed on the UNESCO website made the staff of the Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center overjoyed tonight: The just-concluded Fourth Regular Session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee officially approved the province's "Traditional Textile, Dye, Weaving and Embroidery Skills" entered the UNESCO list of the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in urgent need of protection! This marks the final success of Li Jin's application for world intangible cultural heritage.

At this meeting, a total of 8 countries around the world submitted 12 candidate projects to be included in the "List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urgent Need of Protection." The three projects declared by my country were "Qiang Year" and "China's Traditional Wood Arch Bridge Construction Skills" and "Li Traditional Spinning, Dye, Weaving and Embroidery Skills" were all included in the list.

For the first batch of heritage projects selected for inclusion in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Urgent Need of Protection, the State Party must commit to formulating a special protection plan and will be able to obtain funding from funds specially established for this purpose.

United Nations review experts spoke highly of it.

Regarding the textile technology of the Li people living in Hainan, China, including their spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills, especially dyeing, single-sided weaving and double-sided embroidery skills, experts believe that these textile skills have a long history and have been passed down from generation to generation through oral and physical methods.

It has continued from the pre-Qin Dynasty to this day and still plays an important role in the social and cultural life of the Li people.

Experts also believe that the unique characteristics of Li culture seem to be closely linked to their textiles and weaving processes.

Because the Li people had no written language, textile activities became the main way of recording their history, and the way this activity was carried out made it a collective intangible heritage.

Therefore, Li textiles have made important contributions to China's cotton textile tradition and to the world's handicraft heritage in a unique and exemplary way.

The "cultural heritage application" of our province's "Li Traditional Textile, Dye, Weaving and Embroidery Skills" to UNESCO was launched in March last year.

Deng Jinghua, head of the Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, excitedly told reporters: "In the future, we will focus on protecting and cultivating inheritors of Li traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills, establishing inheritance villages, and encouraging families to maintain or restore mother-daughter inheritance methods, so that the skills can be inherited.

At the same time, we will establish a spinning and dyeing raw material base and build archives and databases of Li traditional spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidery skills to provide services for the protection, inheritance and utilization of the project." Reporter Huang Jing)