Chinadaily.com.cn spoke with experts to find out how the world preserves traditional villages and what China can learn from their examples.
Q&A on protection of traditional villages with He Wei, associate professor at the Architecture Department in the Central Academy of Fine Art.
Q&A on protection of traditional villages with Hu Xiaoyu, a master in intangible cultural heritage at Sun Yat-sen University, who now works with a Guangzhou-based cultural company.
Q&A on protection of traditional villages with Jiang Haoshu, a civil servant in Beijing, and founder of volunteer team Rural Cultural Renewal Initiative.
Q&A on protection of traditional villages with Li Huadong, secretary general of the Conservation and Development Center of Chinese Traditional Villages.
Q&A on protection of traditional villages with Wu Xiangyang, an entrepreneur who runs the scenic spot of Huangling, a small village in Wuyuan county in East China's Jiangxi province.
How and why we should protect China’s traditional villages and rural culture is a discussion that can go on and on. Thanks to the insiders, experts and entrepreneurs who talked to us in this special coverage, our insight into Chinese traditional villages has gone one step further.
China has a huge numbers of villages and wide varieties of folk culture, and future development of villages is upon all of us. When everybody adds fuel, the flames rise high. Let's hear what a volunteer has to say.
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About 900,000 natural villages have disappeared over the past 10 years and the situation is becoming more serious than anticipated, Feng Jicai, a famed writer and CPPCC member, said on Wednesday.
Chinese director and CPPCC member Feng Xiaogang stressed on the cultural importance of traditional Chinese characters and suggested schools should teach those that reflect the wisdom of our ancestors.
With the rise of China’s global influence this decade，comes the increased visibility of Chinese culture worldwide, and the prominence given to Chinese New Year in the world’s media is testament to this.
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