Heritage

heritage, but also can be called the cultural heritage, cultural property or cultural property, refers to a history, art, science and other cultural preservation value, and by the items of government agencies or international organizations or the designated registry, the concept into "tangible cultural heritage" and "intangible cultural heritage". Includes material cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage. Material cultural heritage of historical, artistic and scientific value of the cultural relics; non-material cultural heritage refers to a variety of life and the masses to the existence of non physical form, is closely related to the generation of traditional cultural expressions. Since 2006, the second Saturday of June each year for the Chinese cultural heritage day.



Tangible Heritage

The world cultural heritage the Summer Palace: tangible cultural heritage that is the traditional sense of "cultural heritage", according to the "Convention on the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage" (referred to as the "World Heritage Convention"), including the historical relics, historical buildings, human cultural heritage. Material cultural heritage, including ancient ruins, ancient tombs, Gu Jianzhu, cave temples, stone carvings, murals, modern and important historic buildings and other immovable cultural relics, each time in history in kind, art, literature, manuscripts, books and materials, movable cultural relics; and their architecture, distributed evenly or combined with the landscape has the outstanding universal value of the historical and cultural cities (districts, towns and villages).



Intangible heritage

The world cultural heritage Tiantan according to the UNESCO Convention on the protection of "non material cultural heritage" (Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage) is defined, the intangible cultural heritage refers to "communities, groups, in some cases, personal as its cultural heritage of performance, form of expression, knowledge and skills and related tools, objects, crafts and cultural sites.

"Intangible cultural heritage" refers to each group, group or in some cases, personal as its cultural heritage of performance, form of expression, knowledge and skills and related tools, objects, crafts and cultural sites. Intangible cultural heritage include: oral traditions and expressions, including the intangible cultural heritage as a medium of language; performing arts; social customs, rituals and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; traditional handicraft skills. Intangible cultural heritage refers to people of all ethnic groups in a generation, and the life of the people closely related to a variety of traditional cultural expressions (such as folk literature, folk activities, performing arts, traditional knowledge and skills, and related apparatus, kind, handmade products) and cultural space (i.e., hold regular cultural activities or concentrate to demonstrate the traditional forms of cultural expression sites, such as singing Festival, temple fairs, traditional festivals).




Characteristic

Non material cultural heritage of the biggest characteristic is not from special life mode of production of national, is the national character, national aesthetic habits "live" appearance. It relies on the existence in itself, with sound, image and performance skills, and mouth generation as cultural chain and continuity, is "the most vulnerable part of the culture and the tradition of living". Therefore, for the process of inheritance of intangible cultural heritage, people is particularly important.