(Hangzhou Asian Games) The Asian Games blow the "intangible cultural heritage wind" to let the world touch Chinese culture

Hangzhou, 9 Sep (ZXS) -- The Asian Games have blown up the "intangible cultural heritage wind" to let the world touch Chinese culture

Written by Zhang Yuhuan

From elegant carols to meilanzhuju, the "Chinese romance" at the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games amazed the world, and people witnessed the cultural meaning of this sports event. In fact, the "Humanistic Asian Games" can be found here, walking into the Hangzhou Asian Games Village, the main media center and other places, the exhibition and experience area of intangible cultural heritage is always very popular. Riding on this "intangible cultural heritage wind", the guests from all over the world felt the unique charm of Chinese culture and opened a new window for exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations.

Walking into the Athletes' Village Cultural Hut, a 60-meter-long "Chinese Dragon" kite hovers over the hut, symbolizing the long and profound history of Chinese civilization. Inside, traditional Chinese skills such as buckles, winding and velvet flower making skills, woodblock printing, and Lin'an Changhua bamboo weaving are displayed one by one.

On September 9, a technical official from Iran tasted Hangzhou Guihua Longjing. Photo by Zhang Shuna

On the side of the hut, a burst of tea and floral aromas comes to the nose. I saw Zheng Xiaoping, the inheritor of the representative project of osmanthus Longjing tea making skills, gently poured the tea leaves into the tea cup, poured hot water until it was seven minutes full, and covered it to smother. After waiting for a few seconds, the tea leaves slowly stretch, osmanthus flowers dotted among them, and the soup color is emerald green and bright.

"Osmanthus Longjing is made from West Lake Longjing and osmanthus flower, which represents the image of Hangzhou city, and the tea attracts the fragrance of flowers and adds tea flavor, and this production technique is also a representative item of Hangzhou's intangible cultural heritage." Zheng Xiaoping told reporters that in the past few days he has received guests from Cambodia, Iran, Nepal and other countries, "many countries have the habit of drinking tea, but they are the first time to see the combination of tea leaves and flowers, so they feel very novel."

In the Cultural Cottage of the Technical Officer's Village, you will be greeted by a bronze sculpture of nearly 6 meters of "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". It brings together all kinds of industrial and aesthetic works from national and provincial intangible inheritors of Zhejiang, elegant porcelain, exquisite fans, exquisite silk paintings, etc., showing the elegance and prosperity of Chinese culture.

"Among the various crafts, what impressed me the most was a huge West Lake silk umbrella, which was very exquisite." Cai Yong, international technical officer of the volleyball program at the Asian Games, said that he also enjoyed the Zhejiang guqin here, relaxing and appreciating the beauty of traditional culture.

Mo Shi'an, deputy commander of the Asian Games Village Operation Management Center, introduced that the entire Asian Games Village has carefully built three cultural huts, respectively in the athletes' village, the technical officials' village and the media village, with a total of nearly 600 representative items and exhibits of intangible cultural heritage, focusing on displaying the charm of China's excellent traditional culture.

In the main media center of the Hangzhou Asian Games, the display of intangible cultural heritage is also an "eye-catching brush". The main media center urban culture exhibition hall is inspired by the zigzag covered bridge and the color scheme of Song Yun Meiziqing, creating the spirit and warmth of Song Dynasty landscape painting. The exhibition hall focuses on traditional cultural business cards such as "silk, tea, porcelain, printing, umbrella, fan", etc., presenting the light and profound cultural heritage emitted by intangible cultural heritage in an all-round and multi-angle manner.

In the exhibition hall, there are different interactive intangible cultural heritage experience activities every day. At the paper-cutting experience activity, Patrice, a journalist from the Philippines, picked up scissors with the non-genetic inheritor of Jinyun paper-cutting and learned to cut out a peony flower pattern with red paper. "It's the first time I've cut out such a beautiful pattern on paper, and it's so interesting. I also saw the teachers cut out the pattern of the Asian Games mascot, which was almost exactly the same as the real thing, very magical. ”

In order to allow more Chinese and foreign journalists to experience intangible cultural heritage up close, during the Asian Games, the host also prepared a rich urban style route for Chinese and foreign media. One of the collection routes came to Xiaogucheng Village, Jingshan Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou, where media reporters experienced the craft of Jingshan tea making. Just last year, the project "Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs" was officially inscribed on UNESCO's new Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Jingshan tea banquet was one of them.

Under the guidance of the teacher, the reporters experienced the whole process of ordering tea in turn through the steps of mixing ointment, blowing and so on, and also tried the "tea hundred plays" painted with tea paste. Claudia Tali, a journalist from Papua New Guinea, was impressed by the experience, "I have drunk many types of tea in China, and the taste of Jingshan tea is the freshest, the back notes are sweet, and the tea ordering process is very interesting, I really like it." ”

Chinese civilization stretches to the present, countless intangible cultural heritage carries the genes and bloodline of the Chinese nation, and the protection, inheritance and utilization of intangible cultural heritage is also a "golden key" to promote mutual learning between civilizations. In the immersion of more than 5,000 years of civilization, this Asian sports and cultural exchange event is showing the world the vitality of a cultural power with an open and inclusive attitude. (End)