[Wu Bing 'an] Thoughts and Solutions: China Folklore in the Enthusiasm for Protecting Intangible Cultural Heritage

[Abstract] As we all know, in the past four years, the protection of intangible cultural heritage initiated by the China government and mobilized the whole society to actively participate has formed a craze and produced a sensational effect.

At the same time, what attracted the attention of the academic community is that this craze has unexpectedly activated China folklore, which has been lingering in low temperatures for a long time, and caused it to rapidly heat up and begin to enter a popular discipline.

Faced with this vivid and good situation of the rejuvenation of folk culture and the revitalization of folklore, this paper strives to make some practical thinking, formulate a corresponding or adapted idea, and jointly step into a practical and feasible way out, so as to innovate the theory and application of folklore, promote the development and breakthroughs in the construction of folk disciplines, and create various conditions to enable folk scholars to make more and greater achievements.

[Keywords] Intangible cultural heritage; China folklore; ideas; Looking back at the low-temperature period of folklore in 2004, the government-led national protection of ethnic and folk cultural heritage has been launched nationwide from two batches of pilot work.

Large-scale professional training courses have been held at the national and provincial levels.

Thousands of grassroots folklore and folk literature professional workers participated in the training.

Folklore scholars from universities and scientific research institutions across the country have undertaken the teaching and explanation of popularizing and improving folklore knowledge, methods and skills.

At the same time, a large number of folklore scholars have been hired as advisory members or review members of provincial and municipal expert committees.

In September of that year, a special lecture on folklore titled "The Foundations of China Folk Culture and Its Profound Influence" entered the lecture hall of the central government's "History and Culture Lectures at the Ministerial Level" for the first time, and was warmly welcomed and highly praised by senior government officials.③ There has been an upsurge in disseminating folk cultural knowledge and applied skills across the country, which has rapidly elevated folklore from an unpopular subject to a hot and popular subject.

A large number of folklore scholars have to temporarily leave the peaceful and deserted study life and devote themselves to it.

Make contributions to the hot projects of folk cultural protection.

Finally, this paper proposes four folklore research topics as entry points that are consistent with the hot topics of intangible cultural heritage protection.

I believe that the craze of folklore will be transmitted from here.