Promotion and display activities of “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” Held in Lianyungang

From: Lianyungang Daily Updated: 2023-06-12 10:38

On June 9, the “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” of Lianyungang in 2023 was held in Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area. This event has strengthened the public’s awareness of protecting excellent traditional culture through publicity and display, and created a strong atmosphere for everyone to participate in the protection of cultural heritage. It is reported that during the event, relevant units in various counties and districts will hold over 20 cultural heritage promotion and exhibition activities. According to the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, “It’s hoped to attract more social forces to care about and support the protection of cultural heritage through these activities and encourage everyone to participate in more practical activities related to cultural heritage protection.”

The opening ceremony kicked off in the excerpt of Musical Journey to the West brought by Jiangsu Women’s Ethnic Orchestra. The five major palace tunes of Haizhou Soft Flat Terrace is Hard for Passers-by brought by the Municipal Huaihai Opera Troupe is full of cadence, and the art combination of guqin work The Water and the Sky Are of One Blue, landscape and fire pyrography My Hometown Huaguo Mountain and tea ceremony Music, Poetry and Painting is fresh and gentle. The national and provincial traditional dramas and folk art projects such as Huaihai Opera Four Letters of Complaint by Pi Xiuying, Three Wedding Ceremonies as well as Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter from Ganyu District show a beautiful life in the new era. The traditional sports programs Dragon Flying in Prosperity and Crossing Flash of Journey to the West brought by the Municipal Traditional Martial Arts Research Institute and Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area have created a healthy lifestyle rhythm.

In “the Great Sage’s Hometown·Intangible Cultural Heritage Shopping Festival” section, 30 intangible cultural heritage products of national, provincial, municipal and district level representing traditional art and traditional craftsmanship were gathered, attracting citizens and tourists to stop and purchase -10 provincial and municipal level traditional medicine projects, including the production techniques of Wumiao narcissus ointment, Wanshoutang’s gastrotherapy, Cao’s traditional Chinese medicine hot compress bone therapy, were displayed on-site. The Municipal Museum and the Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics Protection and Archaeology also invited cultural relic appraisal experts to carry out treasure appreciation activities.

This activity also awarded the first batch of “Lianyungang Intangible Cultural Heritage Productive Protection (Demonstration) Base”. It is said that our city has a profound cultural heritage, containing a large number of cultural relics, cultural relics, and intangible cultural relics, as well as the production and lifestyle they rely on. Up to now, there are a total of 217 cultural relics protection units and 222 representative projects of intangible cultural heritage at or above the municipal level in the city, including 9 national level and 32 provincial level projects; 2 provincial-level productive protection (demonstration) bases and 2 provincial-level intangible cultural heritage creative bases have been approved, and there is still 1 provincial-level unlimited space intangible cultural heritage demonstration project in scenic areas; a number of landmark intangible cultural heritage projects, such as the five major palace tunes of Haizhou, Huaihai Opera and production techniques of Huai Salt are in good condition... “These achievements demonstrate that our city has been increasing its efforts in the protection of cultural heritage integrity, systematicness and sustainability, and its ability to integrate with the tourism industry in high quality has been enhancing.” according to the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Film, Tourism.

It is worth mentioning that the opening ceremony was held in Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area, which has benchmark and demonstration significance. In recent years, Huaguo Mountain Scenic Area has promoted the integration of intangible cultural heritage projects and enhanced the interactivity of intangible cultural heritage display, allowing tourists to experience and share the charm of intangible cultural heritage throughout the scenic area. At the same time, the implementation of the “Infinite Space of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Scenic Area” project in Huaguo Mountain will be deepened. Intangible cultural heritage themed tourism routes will be created; various forms of intangible cultural heritage exhibitions will be implanted; the path of intangible cultural heritage inheritance and promotion will be continuously expanded; the connotation and extension of intangible cultural heritage projects will be enriched to improve the quality of cultural and tourism products and competitive added value and achieve a new breakthrough in “intangible cultural heritage+tourism+scenic area”.

“We will take ‘strengthening the systematic protection of intangible cultural heritage and promoting sustainable development’ as our responsibility, promote the high-quality integration of cultural heritage protection and tourism industry, promote the development of cultural industries in scenic areas, enrich the supply capacity of tourism products, create a good atmosphere for the whole society to participate in the protection and inheritance of cultural heritage and the development and utilization of cultural tourism market, and continue to expand the external influence of the city’s excellent traditional culture.” according to the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism.