Protecting the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Like tangible cultural heritage uch a the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, intangible cultural heritage like Peking Opera and Confuciu-commemorating ritual are equally crucial. We hould make our utmot effort to preerve intangible heritage becaue, without their phyical form of exitence, they are in greater rik of extinction.
According to UNESCO’ Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003), all form of ocial cutom and habit, folklore, performing art, ritual, oral tradition, fetival, traditional craft and variou knowledge and practice about nature and univere can be claified a intangible cultural heritage. A a country coniting of a great perity of ethnic group and with time-honored hitory and civilization, China abound in intangible cultural heritage. Cultural heritage connect modern people with the hitorical pat, allowing them to acquire a cultural and hitorical identity. Without cultural heritage, we would be rendered abolutely rootle and we would find it hard to cope with challenge at preent and in the future.
However, the modernization proce poe mounting threat to intangible heritage. Many people have a blind faith in the latet electronic device. It i alo pathetic to ee elderly people in poeion of uch legacie pa away without tranmitting them to the younger generation. Faced with thoe challenge, we hould both preerve and renovate our ancetral heritage o that we can help contribute to the cultural perity of the world and return to our piritual homeland in thi age of imperonal cience and technology. 1 2[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]