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The First ICH Experience Center Opens in Beijing
Dec 12, 2016China's first intangible cultural heritage O2O interactive experience center opened in the Qianmen area in Beijing on Saturday. The two-level center occupies nearly 2,000 square meters and combines an ICH showcase, visitor experience and ...
Tags: cultural heritage, ICH showcase
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More Funds to Protect Heritage in Private Hands
Apr 5, 2016More funds will be mobilized to protect endangered heritage that is currently outside government domain, according to a top official of the Culture Ministry. The move comes in the wake of related national guidelines released by the State ...
Tags: Private Hands, Funds
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Shanghai 'Big World' Stage Entertainment Landmark Set to Reopen Next Year After Decade-Long Closure
Dec 18, 2015[Photo/Shanghai Daily] Shanghai's once most popular stage entertainment landmark, the Shanghai Dashijie, in Huangpu District will be reopened late next year to continue to display the city's cultural heritages after being closed for ...
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Saving A Tibetan Tradition
Dec 18, 2015Trinley (right) performs at the Norbulingka Park in Lhasa during the Shoton Festival.[Photo provided to China Daily] Trinley, 76, narrates Buddhist folktales depicted in the Thangka paintings using a wooden stick. Usually, it takes hours, ...
Tags: Trinley, ancient art, Tibetan Tradition
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Workshops Bring Earthy Mongolian Arts to Life
Dec 16, 2015Unir sings while playing the morin khuur, or horse-head fiddle, during a performance. [Photo provided to China Daily] As his fingers run over the strings, we hear a thunderstorm and rain. When he whistles, you hear the wind. Horses run ...
Tags: morin khuur, Mongolian instrument
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Paper Culture Heritage Highlighted in Beijing
Dec 16, 2015Great Seed produced a documentary after their 5,000 -kilometer journey across Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan provinces to explore the ancient art of papermaking. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As the country is paying more and more ...
Tags: paper culture, Culture Heritage, intangible cultural heritage
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Puppets Get People Hooked at Fujian Festival
Nov 26, 2015A German artist performs at the China Quanzhou International Puppet Festival. GUO HONGSONG/CHINA DAILY It was a fiesta for puppets-those artful creatures that come to joyful life and overcome language barrier. Last week, as a highlight ...
Tags: Puppets, Chinese marionette, Fujian Festival
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China to Train Successors of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Nov 25, 2015Yue Yunsheng, a representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage clay sculpture in Gansu shows one of his sculptures in his workshop. [Photo/chinadaily.com.cn] China plans to train 100,000 people to protect intangible cultural ...
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Inner Mongolia Races to Preserve Threatened Cultural Heritage
Nov 25, 2015Performers from Inner Mongalian Military Area Command's art troupe perform a Mongolian dance on Sept 15, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region is racing to interview and record performances by aging craftsmen ...
Tags: ICH, ICH inheritors
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Chopsticks Apply to Be a Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage
Nov 3, 2015Chopsticks, or Kuaizi, have enjoyed more than 3,000 years of history in China and have deeply influenced Chinese life in terms of etiquette, cuisine and living philosophy. The culture of chopsticks is going to apply to become a Shanghai ...
Tags: Chopsticks, Shanghai intangible cultural heritage, culture of chopsticks
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UNESCO Adds 34 New Entries to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List
Nov 3, 2015Thirty-four entries were added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List at the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The five-day session assembled delegations and scholars from 161 ...
Tags: UNESCO, World Intangible Cultural Heritage, crafts, cultural entries
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"Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing" Event Opens in Beverly Hills
Nov 3, 2015With the approaching of the year of the sheep in the Chinese lunar calendar, the "Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing" event will kick off at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills on the afternoon of February1, 2015(local time). The ...
Tags: "Happy Chinese New Year, Charming Beijing", Beverly Hills
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THousand Years Old Salt Pan in SW China
Oct 30, 2015People living near the ancient salt pan located at the connection point between the southwest regions of Tibet and Yunnan, still maintain the traditional way of evaporating brine in the sun to make salt by hands. According to the ...
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Drawing on Gourds at The Beijing Articraft Worskshop
Oct 30, 2015Just east of the Temple of Heaven, the Beijing Articraft Workshop is a meeting point for traditional Beijing craft artisans. Imperial arts like Beijing embroidery and folk arts like Chinese paper-cuttings are taught at the workshop. Ji ...
Tags: Drawing, Gourds, craft artisans
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a Charming Beijing in The Berlin Asian-Pacific Week
Oct 30, 2015The 'Experiencing China' event series was held in Berlin during the Berlin Asian-Pacific Week from May 18 to 24. Included among the events were Beijing's keynote forum 'Intelligent City, Innovative Life', its intangible cultural heritage ...
Tags: 'Experiencing China', Berlin Week