This year, Beijing will implement dynamic management on the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage. The inheritors are no longer lifelong, and further enhance the awareness of the representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage to perform their duties according to law. At the same time, we will continue to promote the creation of excellent music books, create high-quality performance programs, and polish the golden card of Beijing culture and tourism. Liu Bin, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of culture and tourism and spokesman, said at a special press conference on the protection of Beijing’s history and culture held on the 13th.
Liu Bin said that in 2022, the protection of intangible cultural heritage in Beijing will focus on Inheritance and dissemination, and the measures of Beijing Municipality for the management of representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage will be issued to further enhance the awareness of performing their duties according to law, implement dynamic management on the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage, and the inheritors are no longer lifelong.
At present, there are 92 national representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage and 242 municipal representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage in the city. Beijing has actively established and improved systems for the protection of intangible cultural heritage inheritors, continued to issue inheritance subsidies to the city’s intangible cultural heritage inheritors, guaranteed the basic inheritance activities of inheritors, strengthened the construction of inheritance mechanisms for famous teachers, youth inheritance and baby inheritance, explored the identification system of representative inheritors, and strengthened the management of representative inheritors, Improve the withdrawal mechanism of representative inheritors.
Beijing has a history of building a city for more than 3000 years and a capital for more than 800 years. Its rich historical traditions have accumulated a large number of precious intangible cultural heritage. 12 projects including Peking Opera were selected into the UNESCO “representative list of human intangible cultural heritage”. At the same time, there are 144 national intangible cultural heritage representative projects such as cloisonne production technology and 303 municipal intangible cultural heritage representative projects such as Beijing opera. The number of representative intangible cultural heritage projects in Beijing ranks first in the country.
Beijing quyi, represented by crosstalk and Beijing storytelling, is a golden business card of Beijing cultural tourism. This year, Beijing will implement the implementation plan for the inheritance and development of Beijing quyi, promote the creation of excellent quben, create high-quality performance programs, and encourage the construction of special positions for Beijing quyi performances.
This year, Beijing will also hold three intangible cultural heritage exhibition activities: the first “Beijing International Intangible Cultural Heritage Week” will be held in the Beijing Urban sub center, including a series of activities such as opening ceremony performance, intangible cultural heritage lecture hall and Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Forum; “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” intangible cultural heritage exhibition and dissemination activities to show the fruitful achievements of intangible cultural heritage protection in Beijing in recent years; “Beijing intangible cultural heritage time-honored brand shopping festival” will continue to cooperate with e-commerce platforms and live broadcasting platforms, Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) linkage, help intangible cultural heritage products realize a virtuous cycle of production and consumption, and stimulate the new vitality of the inheritance and development of time-honored intangible cultural heritage.
Liu Bin said that in order to improve the level of intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance in Beijing, we should actively encourage social participation. Give full play to the academic resource advantages of capital universities, and entrust Tsinghua University, Central Academy of fine arts and other institutions to help train 1140 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage across the country and Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei; Promote the two-way empowerment of intangible cultural heritage protection and tourism, organize tourism enterprises and tourism colleges to jointly design the “Beijing central axis Intangible Cultural Heritage Tour”, and successfully selected into the national intangible cultural heritage theme tourism routes; Promote the integration of intangible cultural heritage into contemporary life, design and launch the country’s first series of bank cards with Beijing intangible cultural heritage theme. Among them, the bank card based on the tiger head shield at the end of Beijing opera has been warmly pursued by young people in the year of the tiger, fully demonstrating the energy of social participation and the permanent charm of traditional culture. (end)
