Start a new journey of performance protection at a new starting point
At 16:34 local time on November 28, in Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius, when the 13th ordinary session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage passed a resolution, my country's application for the "Tibetan Medicine Bath Law-China Tibetan Knowledge and Practice Project on Life, Health and Disease Prevention"(hereinafter referred to as the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Method") was included in the UNESCO List of Representative Works of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage, warm applause broke out in the audience, and representatives from various countries came to my delegation to express their congratulations.
At 20:40 Beijing time that day, the good news reached China and was forwarded and reported by major media, arousing enthusiastic responses.
As the 40th China intangible cultural heritage project included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Law" reflects my country's increasing ability to perform performance and level of intangible cultural heritage protection, and is of great significance to enhancing communities, groups and individuals.
The sense of identity, stimulating consciousness and enthusiasm for inheritance and protection, and inheriting and promoting China's excellent traditional culture.
However, the successful application does not mean the end of the task, but the starting point for another start.
Next, how to effectively strengthen the protection and inheritance of the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Law" is the top priority for my country's application and performance protection work.
To this end, on December 14, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism held a symposium in Beijing on the protection of the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Law" included in the UNESCO List of Representative Works of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Relevant comrades from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Office of the Central Xizang Work Coordination Group, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the People's Government of Qinghai Province, the China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, and relevant community representatives of the "Tibetan Medicine Bath Method", experts and scholars gathered together to talk about their experiences and exchange suggestions on the protection work of the "Tibetan Medicine Bath Method".
Reflecting the concept of sustainable development
The "Tibetan Medical Medicinal Bath Method" is a traditional knowledge and practice of Tibetan people guided by the "five sources" of life outlook of earth, water, fire, wind and air and the "three causes" health outlook and disease outlook of Long, Chiba and Bacon.
By bathing in natural hot springs or Medically boiled water or steam adjusts physical and mental balance and realizes life health and disease prevention and control.
The resolution of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage commented on it in particular: "It highlights the importance of traditional knowledge about nature and the universe and provides a positive example of the sustainable relationship between humans and their environment." Bamoqubumo, a member of the China delegation and a researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Literature of the China Academy of Social Sciences, said with emotion that this is an extremely rare high praise in the resolution of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
"Therefore, one of the outstanding highlights of the 'Tibetan Medicine Bath Method' is that it reflects the sustainable development of people and the environment." For example, she said that when collecting herbal medicines in my country, Tibetan medicine generally follows the timely and appropriate collection of appropriate parts of plants, which is not only related to the effectiveness of medicinal materials, but also conducive to the management and sustainable use of natural resources; when acquiring, utilizing and managing water resources, great attention is also paid to maintaining sustainable development of the environment.
The "Tibetan Medicine Bath Method" is a safe, green, economic and convenient health practice that embodies the concept of sustainable development of people and the environment.
"The follow-up protection of the 'Tibetan Medicine Bath Method' must pay full attention to sustainable development.
The protection of other traditional Chinese medicines can draw on the experience of the 'Tibetan Medicine Bath Method'." Bamo Qubumo said.
Zhen Yan, director of the Ethnic Medicine Research Office of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, holds the same view.
She said that the "Tibetan Medicine Medicinal Bath Method" is a knowledge system on recuperation and maintenance.
The focus is on people rather than diseases.
It emphasizes the mutual relationship between people and nature and the universe, and hopes to achieve harmonious coexistence between people and themselves, people and people, people and society, and people and nature.
Highlight multiple values and meanings
The "Tibetan medicine bath method" is one of the important means for the prevention and treatment of Tibetan medicine diseases in my country.
It carries traditional knowledge such as Tibetan astronomy and calendar, natural history, ritual beliefs, behavioral norms, daily necessities, etc., and also through Tibetan myths, legends, epic, drama, painting, carving and other cultural expressions have been widely disseminated.
It not only provides the Tibetan people with a continuous sense of identity, but also enriches human health knowledge and practice.
It is a witness to the world's cultural diversity and human creativity.
Therefore, this project not only has great medical and scientific value, but also has important cultural value.
The successful application of the "Tibetan Medicine Medicinal Bath Method" is of great significance to my country's culture, medical and other aspects.
Delegates attending the meeting agreed that the inclusion of the project in the list of representative works of human intangible cultural heritage not only enhances the overall international visibility of the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Method" and even Tibetan medicine, but also reflects my country's commitment to protecting and inheriting, including Tibetan culture.
The distinctive attitude of the excellent traditional culture of the ethnic group has sworn to the international community the determination and responsibility of our government and the broad masses of the people to protect cultural heritage.
At the meeting, relevant persons in charge of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other units respectively elaborated on the importance of the successful application of the "Tibetan Medicine Medicinal Bath Law" from their respective perspectives.
They believe that the successful application for a cultural heritage will help the inheritance and development of traditional medicine, the exchange and mutual learning of the cultures of various ethnic groups, and the international community's attention and understanding of the excellent traditional culture of our country, and will help improve the confidence of national culture and better develop the cause of ethnic medicine.
From the perspective of promoting cultural diversity and respecting human creativity, participants expressed the same views.
They believe that the project absorbs nutrients from other traditional medical knowledge and forms systematic knowledge and practice, confirms the history and reality of exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations, helps understand and respect the diversity of world cultures, and inspires human culture.
creativity.
The traditional health concepts and disease prevention methods it upholds are constantly recognized at home and abroad, helping to promote mutual respect and mutual appreciation among different cultures, and helping to understand health practices that are beneficial to human well-being, thereby promoting Respect for cultural diversity and cultural creativity.
Multiple measures to promote protection
Delegates at the meeting offered suggestions and suggestions on how to effectively protect the "Tibetan Medicine Bath Method" and make it sustainable.
As the main provinces and regions that specifically protect the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Law", the People's Government of Qinghai Province and relevant leaders of the Tibet Autonomous Region exchanged views on specific protection measures.
According to reports, Qinghai Province will protect the "Tibetan Medicine Bath Law" by taking measures such as raising awareness, sorting and excavation, investigation and research, talent construction, standardization construction, publicity and display.
In terms of standardization construction, we will join forces with the departments of Science and Technology of Qinghai Province, China Tibetan Medicine, Tibetan Medical Hospital and other departments to strengthen standardization construction to provide safe and effective medical services to the broad masses of the people.
Tibet Autonomous Region will improve the protection level of the "Tibetan Medicine and Medicinal Bath Law" through capacity building, strengthening census and filing, strengthening research, promoting the construction of local laws and regulations, properly managing practice sites, and promoting health practices in grassroots communities.
In terms of promoting the construction of local laws and regulations, we will study and formulate the "Regulations on the Development and Protection of Tibetan Medicine", the "Plan for the Construction of Tibetan Medicine Culture" and the "Green Trade Manual for Medicinal Materials of Tibetan Medicine Plants" as soon as possible to strengthen the protection of "Tibetan medicine and medicine baths" from the legal system level."The protection of the law" will make efforts to give ancient Tibetan medicine new vitality and vitality in the new era.
Relevant persons in charge of other relevant units believe that policy support should be increased, mechanisms and systems should be improved, the foundation of ethnic medicine should be further consolidated, the inheritance, protection, research of basic theories of ethnic medicine and the rescue and collation of documents should be strengthened, and scientific and technological innovation should be further promoted to better play its due role in protecting human health.
Focusing on the protection of the "Tibetan Medicine Medicinal Bath Law", representatives attending the meeting agreed that comprehensive protection should be carried out from five perspectives: inheritance, research, protection, publicity and revitalization.
First of all, from the perspective of inheritance, we should strengthen capacity building, carry out special vocational training, and establish teaching bases; promote campus activities, organize and compile knowledge books suitable for primary and secondary school students, and improve youth protection awareness.
Secondly, from a research perspective, we should strengthen resource census and systematic filing, promote recording work and digital filing; organize inheritors, practitioners, experts, societies and diagnosis and treatment institutions to carry out health practice seminar activities, and promote domestic and international academic exchanges, promote interdisciplinary dialogue, and publish a series of research results.
Third, from the perspective of protection, we must assist in promoting the construction of local laws and regulations and properly manage practice sites.
Fourth, from the perspective of publicity, it is necessary to enhance the public's awareness of protection and share practical experience in medicinal bath health.
Finally, from the perspective of revitalization, it is necessary to promote health practices in grassroots communities and rationally utilize Tibetan medicinal materials resources.
So far, a total of 508 projects around the world have been included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List, of which my country has 40 projects, ranking first in the world.
Successful application for cultural heritage is not an end, but a solemn commitment to the protection of heritage projects.
Only by recognizing this can we truly grasp the direction and goal of intangible cultural heritage protection.
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Application for heritage is not Trademark Registering:
Application for a heritage is completely different from Trademark Registering, origin mark or patent application.
References such as "rushing to register,""grabbing to report," and "competing for ownership" are not scientific.
The basic purpose of UNESCO's establishment of relevant lists under the framework of the Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage is to enhance the visibility of intangible cultural heritage as a whole, raise awareness of the protection of intangible cultural heritage and its importance, clarify the responsibilities and obligations of protection, and enhance Cultural exchanges, dialogue and mutual respect and appreciation protect the diversity and creativity of human culture.
According to the spirit and declaration rules of the Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage, each State Party has the right to apply for intangible cultural heritage projects in its territory to be included in the list.
For intangible cultural heritage projects that exist in the territory of two or more States Parties, each country can declare separately, and there is no first-come-first-served difference or affiliation between projects.
There are two methods of "Tibetan medicine bath method":
The most commonly used method in the "Tibetan Medicine Bath Method" is water bath, but it is not a bath in the general sense.
The "Tibetan medicine bath method" is divided into two categories.
One is the "five types of hot spring" bath method divided by the main types of minerals.
Tibetan medicine bath therapy evolved from natural hot spring baths.
Tibetan ancestors living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau long knew that bathing was beneficial to health and developed a good habit of bathing and purifying the body.
This custom gradually formed activities such as bathing festivals.
Later, during the bathing process, people discovered that natural hot spring baths can treat some diseases and have good curative effects, so they were promoted and applied.
The other type is the "Five Flavors Ganlu" bath method based on five plant medicinal materials, which includes three therapies: immersion water bath, fumigation steam bath and binding application bath; Mamba (therapist), Takimu Juekan (pharmacist) and Manyao (medicinal bath assistant) cooperate with each other to treat the disease based on traditional diagnosis and treatment methods such as observation, questioning, and cutting.
Medicines are added according to the symptoms in the process of formulation, decoction, fermentation, and adjuvant medicine, and the best treatment plan is formulated according to the individual's different physiques, and then unique formulas are made to implement the "one person, one prescription" system.