The Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (CPWDP) will propose the inclusion of Tai Chi on the UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the upcoming annual Two Sessions, in an effort to protect and promote the traditional sport.
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment in China and an indispensable part of Chinese culture. It's hailed as the "father of movies".
In many people's eyes, 23 year-old Chang Yangyang is unusual compared to his peers. He always stays at home, paints flowers, cuts paper and carries a small pair of scissors in his pocket wherever he goes.
Folk artist Kan Zongqin makes rooster-shaped dough modellings in Zaozhuang, East China's Shandong province, Jan 8, 2017.
Panda poop is the special ingredient in a new kind of paper being made in Qiliang village in Northwest China's Shaanxi province.
Despite the shrinking of the industry in recent years, the making of hookah in Lanzhou has been preserved as a provincial intangible cultural heritage.
China's first intangible cultural heritage O2O interactive experience center opened in the Qianmen area in Beijing on Saturday.
The 24 solar terms is a gross name of the system that consists of 12 major solar terms and 12 minor solar terms. Ancient Chinese divided the circle of the annual motion of the sun into 24 equal segments; each segment was called a “jie qi” or solar term. Hence the 24 segments are collectively called the 24 Solar Terms. This system of time embodies the traditional knowledge and the social practices through which Chinese organize their perception of the regularity of seasons, of astronomical laws and of other local natural phenomena occurring in the course of the year. It is an indispensable component of the traditional Chinese calendars and its living applications, serving as a time-frame for agricultural activities and daily life. In international circle of meteorology, this cognitive system has been honored as the Fifth Great Invention of China.
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has adopted a decision that China's "The 24 Solar Terms" be inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during the 11th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on November 30, 2016.
Yu Songtao polishes a pair of scissors in village under Dingjiaqiao town of Jingxian county, East China's Anhui province, Nov 17, 2016.
Zhenhu, located in the west of Su Zhou new district, is a time-honored ancient town with typical Wu and Taihu culture. It is also reputed as a land of milk and honey.
The handmade mulberry-bark paper, originating thousands of years ago in Xinjiang, has been listed as intangible cultural heritage by the UNESCO.
China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation and Guangming Daily co-hosted China's first nation-level forum on social efforts in cultural heritage protection in Beijing on Nov 3.
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