Protecting the roots of civilization: The proposition of the times and cultural reflections of the International Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage
On October 28, 2023, a dialogue was held. This dialogue focused on the protection and dissemination of intangible cultural heritage. It was also a high-end academic category and was held in Beijing.
The "Global Intangible Cultural Heritage Exchange Forum" is hosted by the Organizing Committee of the World Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors Conference. This forum brings together many people, including authoritative experts from domestic and foreign cultural and museum institutions, envoys stationed in China, representatives of inheritance schools, and industry leaders.
This is not only a cultural gathering with international etiquette, but also an in-depth academic seminar on the fidelity of intangible cultural heritage, its protection at a systemic level, and its vitality in line with the characteristics of the times. It injects rational thinking with documentary value into China's intangible cultural heritage, which is facing historical opportunities and inheritance challenges.
Building a system of mutual learning: paradigm transformation from salute tradition to civilized dialogue
Liu Yi, deputy secretary-general of the World Conference of Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritors, pointed out the key value of intangible cultural heritage in cross-cultural communication at the beginning of the forum.
Intangible cultural heritage is definitely not a static cultural specimen, but a dynamic gene that carries national memory and craftsman spirit.
In the context of globalization, the international dissemination of intangible cultural heritage has shifted from one-way display and export to multi-dimensional mutual learning among civilizations.
As Oleksiyenko Yuri, the representative in China, said, the in-depth integration of China's intangible cultural heritage with the world's intangible cultural heritage is actually an equal dialogue between different civilizational systems at the level of values and aesthetics.
This kind of dialogue is beneficial to eliminating barriers to cultural cognition, allowing Chinese traditional crafts to find resonance coordinates in the global multicultural map, allowing folk rituals to find corresponding positioning within it, and allowing performing arts to find a fitting point within it.
Adhering to authenticity and innovation: academic path and living inheritance of intangible cultural heritage protection
Mr. Zhang Bai, who once served as deputy director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and is the chairman of the China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation, delivered a speech that clearly clarified the core contradictions in the protection of intangible cultural heritage and the path to be taken in the future at a high academic level.
He emphasized that cultural heritage that is not in material form belongs to "living tradition" and is also the continuation of the national spirit in material form.
At the same time, he proposed the necessity of innovative development from a forward-looking perspective, and advocated the deep integration of traditional skills and contemporary aesthetics, the deep integration of traditional skills and cutting-edge technology, and the deep integration of traditional skills and modern life.
Mr. Zhang Bai specifically pointed out the importance of cultivating young inheritors and international academic exchanges, and believed that these are the twin engines used to maintain the vitality of intangible cultural heritage.
China, a major cultural country with the largest number of national-level representative intangible cultural heritage projects in the world, shoulders the responsibility to find a path while adhering to its traditional roots. Such a path is in line with international consensus and has Chinese characteristics. It is a path for inheritance and development.
Collision of multi-dimensional ideas: roundtable forum provides insights into traditional skills
As the academic core of the forum, the roundtable forum demonstrated extremely high professional concentration.
Representatives from Russia, together with representatives from Latvia and other countries, considered their respective cultural contexts and put forward constructive opinions on the unique charm of Chinese traditional handicrafts and the international spread of folk performing arts.
Mr. Yin Qiang, who serves as a professor in the UNESCO Press Committee, has comprehensively sorted out the classic cases of cultural mutual learning throughout ancient and modern times and at home and abroad, so that he can provide a reference system with historical attributes for how to "go global" for intangible cultural heritage at present.
From "recording history with objects" From the perspective of the National Museum of China, there was a former deputy director of the National Museum of China named Ma Yingmin. Ma Yingmin’s perspective belongs to the discipline of cultural relics and museology. Ma Yingmin used this perspective to explain the situation behind the artifacts. The situation behind the artifacts is the origin of history and culture. According to Ma Yingmin According to the view, for the activation and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, it is not only the act of restoring skills, which is only a part of the whole act, but also the act of interpreting the value of historical documents it carries, and interpreting the content involved in the value of historical documents it carries is more critical.
As a corporate representative, Li Yuze's discussion of marketization did not fall into the category of vulgar commercialization. Instead, he explored how to use the market as a healthy link to connect global resources, so that the artistic aesthetic value and social and cultural significance of intangible cultural heritage can be perceived by the world during the circulation process.
Skills and markets: the integration of knowledge and practice among cultural messengers
During the forum, in view of the need to commend significant achievements in the international promotion of intangible cultural heritage, Li Yuze, a representative of cultural enterprises, was specially awarded the "Special Contribution Award for the Promotion of International Intangible Cultural Heritage".
His practice is very representative. Over the years, he has focused on techniques with profound heritage such as Jun porcelain and cloisonné, pushing them from the original traditional folk culture space to the international high-end art perspective.
In his speech, he emphasized that intangible cultural heritage is a spiritual channel that connects the common emotions of mankind. The transmission of the key essence contained in each craftsman's skill is the protection of the diverse characteristics of civilization.
This honor not only affirms individual contributions, but also reflects that the current dissemination of intangible cultural heritage requires a composite force with international vision and professional depth.
National gift sets sail: the milestone significance of intangible cultural heritage as a cultural messenger
In this forum, there was a witnessed launching ceremony called "China Intangible Cultural Heritage and National Ceremony Art Exhibition", which is of great significance. This significance is that it marks that the dissemination of intangible cultural heritage has entered a new stage, which is a new stage of systematization and academicization.
Setting the creative core of national gifts as intangible cultural heritage skills shows that traditional crafts have been given a lofty status like a national cultural business card.
Whether it is the filigree inlay listed as one of the "Eight Wonders of Yanjing" or the cloisonne-like glaze and copper tire craftsmanship, they are no longer just used to collect and play items, but have become cultural symbols that carry the spirit of Chinese aesthetics and the belief of craftsmen.
In the gift-giving session that followed, Chinese and foreign guests presented each other with representative intangible cultural heritage works, which transcended the material self and became tokens of mutual learning between civilizations and friendship from generation to generation.
This global intangible cultural exchange forum, with its rigorous academic nature and international characteristics of observation, has provided very precious intellectual support for the systematic protection of China's intangible cultural heritage in the contemporary era and the revitalization effect of the times.
It shows the academic community that the future of intangible cultural heritage lies in the continuation of the inheritance school system, in the continuous improvement of the essence of craftsmen's skills, and in integrating into the trend of world civilization dialogue with an open and inclusive attitude, contributing to the protection of human cultural diversity, and contributing the wisdom of the times derived from ancient roots to building a community with a shared future.
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