The significance of applying for the World Heritage lies in that it is expected to arouse people's rethinking of the cultural form and value created by their ancestors; In order to promote the scientific and standardized rescue and protection work. This is a good thing. If it succeeds, we should rejoice in it. It must also be admitted that predicting and declaring the world intangible cultural heritage with the impetuousness of today's society may have a very relative effect on the above-mentioned "arousal" and "protection".
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China: Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient festivals of the Chinese nation. For thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and people "cherish the memory and mourn, and talk about their words to be handed down from generation to generation". Therefore, the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan has the widest and deepest influence and occupies the mainstream position.
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South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival has been declared as a world intangible cultural heritage in 2005. Now, the person in charge of the provincial intangible cultural heritage protection center of China Dragon Boat Festival's "application for world heritage" said: There will be no impact. China Dragon Boat Festival "World Heritage Application" has been successfully grasped. In South Korea's declaration of "Dragon Boat Festival", the first sentence is "Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival in China, which has spread to South Korea for more than 1500 years".
Some people worry that after we declare the Dragon Boat Festival, the possibility of its success will be "greatly reduced". Gangneung danoje festival, South Korea, began to brew sacred wine, and folk activities included official and slave masquerade, agricultural music competition, Heshan ode to Dai folk songs, tug-of-war, wrestling, swinging, China poetry creation competition, archery, pot throwing and so on. , mainly for public entertainment. The Dragon Boat Festival in China is mainly to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. Folk activities include eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, and children wearing purses and carrying five poisons to ward off evil spirits. There are a set of folk activities in gangneung danoje festival, South Korea, which are both related and different from the Dragon Boat Festival in China.
And "representative works of human oral heritage and intangible heritage" have "* * * enjoyment". For example, UNESCO successively approved Muqam in Iraq and Muqam in Azerbaijan as intangible cultural heritage, and Muqam in Xinjiang declared by China in 2007 was approved again.
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