Ten years of inheritance of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention, from master to individual

Chengdu Business Daily Reporter Zhang Shu) To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the "China Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference and Commemorative Conference to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage" was held in Chengdu from yesterday to the 16th of this month.

A total of 300 people, including representatives of States parties to the Convention, experts and scholars, attended the meeting.

China was one of the early parties to the Convention

The Conference held the meeting "Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage: With the theme of "The First Decade", we will conduct full discussions and interactions around five major topics, review the history of the Convention, summarize the experience of implementing the Convention, and discuss the difficulties, challenges and opportunities faced by various countries in the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

Enhance the international community's understanding and theoretical level of the significance, value and other aspects of the Convention, and make important contributions to promoting the healthy development of global intangible cultural heritage protection in the right direction.

The meeting will eventually form an outcome document entitled "Chengdu Outlook".

It is understood that in 2004, my country ratified the Convention, thus becoming one of the early parties to the Convention.

Our government attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

With the attitude of conscientiously implementing the Convention, it has formulated and implemented a series of intangible cultural heritage protection measures that are in line with the principles and spirit of the Convention, and has made a series of gratifying achievements in the protection of intangible cultural heritage at the national and international levels.

In recent years, Sichuan Province and Chengdu City have actively participated in various activities carried out by UNESCO in the field of intangible cultural heritage.

Through close cooperation with UNESCO, especially the Secretariat of the Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sichuan Province and Chengdu City have successfully held the "China Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival" and international forums for three consecutive years.

This conference is the only international forum covering the world

It is reported that so far, 17 countries and regions around the world have held or will soon hold more than 60 activities to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention.

The "China Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference" held in Chengdu, China is the only international forum with the theme of "The First Decade of the Convention" among the many above-mentioned activities covering the world.

In addition, this conference is also an event that UNESCO deeply participates in and hosts to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Convention.

According to Wang Wenzan, president of China Academy of Art and director of China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, China's "intangible cultural heritage" protection mainly establishes a national directory protection system and a national inheritance name list publication system through comprehensive surveys.

At the same time, based on the richness and uniqueness of "intangible cultural heritage" projects, explore and implement different effective protection methods such as rescue protection, original ecological protection, productive protection, and overall protection, and establish a national-level cultural and ecological protection experimental zone.

In the future,"intangible cultural heritage" protection must actively promote the establishment and improvement of effective mechanisms for protection work, and actively participate in and promote international cooperation.

guest interview

"Just like an accessory as simple as clothing, it may also become a carrier for conveying a certain intangible cultural heritage."

---Christine Kutima

"In the spread of intangible cultural heritage, there is sometimes too much emphasis on masters of craftsmanship, and whether young people are really interested in intangible cultural heritage is a worldwide issue."

---Noriko Aikawa

Intangible cultural heritage is everyone's intangible cultural heritage, not just masters 'intangible cultural heritage

--Chao Gejin, Director of the Institute of Ethnic Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences

Japan

Intangible cultural heritage attaches importance to "living inheritance"

Noriko Aikawa, Intangible Cultural Heritage Consultant of the Japanese Cultural Heritage Agency and former head of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Division

"The Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo Park is a good park.

In Chengdu, people living here also inherit intangible cultural heritage culture." Noriko Aikawa was also amazed by the old streets of Chengdu, large and small.

Yesterday, Noriko Aikawa said in an interview with reporters that 10 years ago, she was still worried about the protection of intangible cultural heritage projects such as Kunqu Opera in China.

"After the formation of the Convention, the status quo of these projects has changed a lot.

Government officials have also actively set an example and attached great importance to intangible cultural heritage."

In the process of inheriting intangible cultural heritage in Japan, Noriko Ikawa highly praised "living inheritance." She believes that in the spread of intangible cultural heritage, there is sometimes too much emphasis on masters of craftsmanship, and whether young people are really interested in intangible cultural heritage is a worldwide issue.

She believes that the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage should be diversified and disseminated, especially the multi-level dissemination from "masters" to "individuals", which is similar to this conference's "everyone is a cultural inheritor".

Brazil

The first thing to include intangible cultural heritage protection is tattoos

Antonio August Argente Professor, University of Campinas, Brazil

Participating in this conference, Argente believed that he had increased his understanding of intangible cultural heritage.

"The conference is also making a new attempt for future intangible cultural heritage protection plans." He believes that in the future, intangible cultural heritage protection will also be evaluated and operated in accordance with regulations and laws.

In Brazil, where samba and football are in full swing, the first project they include in intangible cultural heritage protection is a tattoo on local indigenous people.

"It was very successful.

We cooperated with local non-governmental organizations and the results were very good." Argente said that at present, he is very concerned about cross-cultural protection in intangible cultural heritage protection."It needs to be detailed to establish better mechanisms to stimulate cultural collision." He very much hopes to have cooperation with China in this regard.

Netherlands

Official protection of intangible cultural heritage has just begun

Rex Smith, consultant to the Richelangue Consulting Agency in the Netherlands, former Secretary-General of the UNESCO Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage, and UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Consultant

Smith told reporters that he came to the conference mainly as an audience this time."There are thousands of social organizations in the Netherlands that are carrying out intangible cultural heritage protection, and many villages have spontaneously organized intangible cultural heritage protection, but in contrast, it has only been three months since our government established relevant institutions."

Smith had been to Beijing before and was deeply impressed by the Peking Opera there.

He also watched special local dances in Urumqi.

For him, when he came to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference this time, he mainly had a learning attitude."Today, we must form a corresponding protection list.

For us, forming a good protection institution and system and forming written documents require corresponding experience to carry out specific protection and implementation."

Estonia

T-shirts are also a carrier for conveying intangible cultural heritage culture

Christine Kutima, Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia, Chairman of the National Committee for Education and Education of Estonia for UNESCO

Kutima introduced the scene where she taught students knowledge of intangible cultural heritage in Estonia, saying,"We recite prose and poems, analyze proverbs and idioms, and even use a T-shirt worn by students." Kutima said that when students and their friends wear a certain series of T-shirts, they actually convey value perceptions."Just like an accessory on their clothes, it may also become a kind of intangible cultural heritage.

carrier."

Kutima said that these are one of her ways to attract students and allow them to better understand intangible cultural heritage.

"Even if life is constantly changing, the relationship between the past and the present carried in the intangible cultural heritage has far-reaching significance." She believes that for today's young people, what is really interested in is how to apply the "thing of the past" of "intangible cultural heritage" to the present.

China

Don't blindly tourize intangible cultural heritage projects

Chao Gejin, Director of the Institute of Ethnic Literature, China Academy of Social Sciences, and Moderator of Unit 4 of the Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference

Chao Gejin is already an "acquaintance" of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival.

He believes that the biggest characteristic of intangible cultural heritage that is different from general heritage is emotion.

In addition to certain specific fields, such as masters who need professional skills such as tooth carving, most of them are part of daily life."Intangible cultural heritage is everyone's intangible cultural heritage, not just masters 'intangible cultural heritage." Participating in the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention Conference, he said,"What we need is continuity, not transition." What makes him very sure is that the mention of intangible cultural heritage protection has almost formed widespread recognition among all walks of life in China.

However, he believes that there are also misunderstandings in the current protection of intangible cultural heritage, such as one-sided emphasis on investment."Not all intangible cultural heritage projects require investment, let alone one-sidedly pursue tourism and local economy, and swarm some intangible cultural heritage projects such as sacrifices into tourism.

The key is to increase people's enthusiasm and love for attention." Chengdu Business Daily reporter Zeng Ling

Original title: Ten years of inheritance of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention, from master to individual)