[Fang Lili] A new level of "intangible cultural heritage" protection: from "cultural consciousness" to "cultural confidence"

China's economic development has brought about the rejuvenation of national culture, cultural consciousness and self-confidence.

In Nanluogu Lane and Shichahai in Beijing, Tianzifang and Moganshan in Shanghai, people's new creations based on tradition can be seen everywhere.

New Hutong culture with traditional characteristics, including the design of clothing, furniture, jewelry, etc., have become part of contemporary fashion culture.

The protection of intangible cultural heritage is closely related to today's cultural development and economic construction, including national image building.

To truly realize this, we must raise it to a new level, link it with China's "cultural consciousness" and "cultural self-confidence", and discuss it from a more macro perspective.

The protection of "intangible cultural heritage" originates from "cultural consciousness"

The protection of cultural heritage in countries around the world initially starts with material cultural heritage.

The protection of material cultural heritage in Europe has triggered the protection of natural heritage, and the concept of new museums has emerged.

The most representative one is the ecological museum.

The biggest difference between it and traditional museums is the transformation from the protection of cultural relics to the protection of lifestyles and production methods., paying attention to the interactive relationship between culture and natural ecology.

The protection of intangible cultural heritage is the result of human beings 'reflection and roots on their own national traditional culture after realizing the importance of cultural diversity.

In the process of global integration, people began to look for lost culture, and there were calls for the protection of intangible cultural heritage.

This kind of protection is actually the beginning of "cultural awareness".

"Cultural consciousness" means having a deep understanding of one's own country's culture, being able to clearly explain the history of one's own culture, and being able to understand it in the space of the era of globalization.

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Fei Xiaotong once said: "China is embarking on a path of modernization.

It is not learning from foreign countries, but finding it out by itself.

The last thing I did to find this road was to write the article 'Cultural Conscious'." At present, culture has become one of the most noteworthy issues in social development.

For nearly a hundred years, China has been learning Western culture and advanced production technology.

Many young people know more about Western philosophical thoughts and cultural concepts than about their own country.

More and more people understand English, and can understand classical Chinese.

There are fewer and fewer people.

In recent years, China culture has attracted much attention around the world.

More and more foreigners need to interact frequently with China and hope to have a deeper understanding of China; China should not be satisfied with becoming a world processing factory, but also show its own culture to the world, and seek new creativity of national culture to realize the shift from exporting products to exporting ideas, exporting design and exporting fashion, leading the new trend in the world.

To deeply understand national culture, we should not only express national culture clearly to the world, but also compare it with other cultures, reflect on it from the perspective of world culture, respect other cultures while respecting our own culture.

This is "cultural consciousness".

In the era of globalization, cultural exchanges between countries are becoming more and more frequent.

While economic integration, how to understand the status of national culture in the world and properly position it is a common problem faced by China and other countries in the world.

"Cultural confidence" is the top priority

The biggest difference between intangible cultural heritage and material cultural heritage is that it is not a physical and concrete cultural relic, but a concept or understanding, and a metaphysical ideology.

Concepts and ideologies are fluid, changing, and living.

Strictly speaking, they are not heritage or products of the past, but living traditional culture that still exists in our lives.

If we can realize this and consciously inherit, develop, study, and understand it, making it the foundation and innovative resource of today's cultural development, and an educational method, then cultural rejuvenation can also become a new growth point for China's creative industries.

American anthropologist Masshell Salins believes that in postmodern society, the whole world has changed.

The biggest change is that traditional culture and modern culture are no longer a pair of contradictions, but can be integrated and mutually reinforcing.

Nowadays, various intangible cultural heritage and traditional culture have become important resources for countries around the world to build new culture, new politics, and new economy."Cultural consciousness" is to re-understand one's own cultural history and its role in the development of today's society.

important role.

With this understanding, we will not be limited to protecting traditional culture, but will pay more attention to the development and creation of new culture.

On the basis of "cultural consciousness", we must move towards "cultural self-confidence".

"Cultural confidence" means believing that there are many excellent ideas in traditional culture that are worth re-exploring.

Regarding this issue, we must not only stand from the standpoint of China, but also think from the perspective of world culture.

How can China culture be integrated into world culture.

In this regard, we must not only pay attention to elite culture, but also pay attention to mass culture and the creativity shown by the people in daily life.

In the process of protecting intangible cultural heritage, we must attach importance to the participation and promotion of the people, form a social trend of protection, melt it into a part of life, and become part of the Chinese nation's "cultural consciousness" and "cultural self-confidence".

China's economic development has brought about the rejuvenation of national culture, cultural consciousness and self-confidence.

In Nanluogu Lane and Shichahai in Beijing, Tianzifang and Moganshan in Shanghai, people's new creations based on tradition can be seen everywhere.

New Hutong culture with traditional characteristics, including the design of clothing, furniture, jewelry, etc., have become part of contemporary fashion culture.

If China only has fashion culture moved from the West and does not have its own brand of fashion culture, China culture will not be able to go global.

China's culture goes to the world not through political or ideological propaganda, but through the dissemination and exchange of culture.

Among them, the export of cultural products and the popularity of fashion are very important.

Any culture must have a material carrier.

If China's cultural concepts, lifestyles, and fashion products with the characteristics of China culture can be popular in countries around the world, China culture will truly "go global", just as we accept Western culture and fashion.

Only by internalizing China's intangible cultural heritage into a part of today's people's lives and a part of the trend of the new era to promote the development of China's culture and economy, will my country's intangible cultural heritage protection have more profound significance.

(Author's unit: China Academy of Art)