Intangible culture with Related Tags
Jade carving (Beijing jade carving)
Beijing jade carving, also known as "Beijing jade", is a kind of jade carving technique that is popular in Beijing. It originated in the Yuan Dynasty, and its ancestor was the Quanzhen Taoist Qiu Chuji. In the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Palace Imperial Household Supervision set up a jade workshop, which brought together jade masters from all over the country, and Beijing's palace jade carving industry flourished. In the Qing Dynasty, playing with jade was popular in Beijing, and the jade carving technology reached its historical peak. After 1911, Beijing's folk jade carving industry became increasingly prosperous, and famous craftsmen with outstanding talents and amazing skills such as Pan Bingheng, Liu Deying, He Rong, and Wang Shusen emerged, bringing Beijing jade carving into a new historical stage. After the founding of New China, Beijing's jade carving industry developed rapidly, once reaching a scale of several thousand people, with a gathering of talents and new and surprising skills. The four jade national treasures made during this period, "Daiyue Wonders", "Hanxiang Jurui", "Four Seas Joy", and "Qunfang Lansheng", were carefully crafted, extremely beautiful, and presented a very high artistic level, and were commended by the State Council. Beijing jade carving is known for its "fine workmanship and solid materials". It inherits the traditional skills of palace jade carving, uses exquisite materials, is exquisitely made, and has a wide range of products. It can produce a variety of products such as utensils, figures, flowers, birds and animals, bonsai, and jewelry. Beijing jade carving skills include selecting materials, cleaning materials, cutting materials, designing, grinding, polishing, and other links. The shapes are majestic, heavy, dignified and elegant, and the decorations are exquisite, bright and simple, reflecting the high level of craftsmanship. Since the 1980s, due to the shortage of funds and the lack of talent, the characteristic varieties and skills of Beijing jade carving have been lost, and rescue and protection are urgent.
Chinese sericulture and silk weaving techniques
Sericulture and silk weaving are great inventions of China and cultural symbols of the Chinese nation. This heritage includes the production skills of the entire process of mulberry planting, silkworm breeding, silk reeling, dyeing and silk weaving, the various ingenious and sophisticated tools and looms used in the process, and the colorful silk products such as damask, gauze, brocade and kesi produced thereby, as well as the related folk activities derived from this process. For more than 5,000 years, it has made a significant contribution to Chinese history and has had a profound impact on human civilization through the Silk Road. This traditional production handicraft and folk activities are still popular in the Taihu Basin in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu (including cities such as Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Suzhou) and Chengdu, Sichuan, and are an inseparable part of China's cultural heritage.
Heritage with Related Tags
Historic City of Vigan
Founded in the 16th century, Vigan is the best-preserved example of Spanish colonial town planning in Asia. Its architecture reflects a fusion of cultural elements from other parts of the Philippines, China, and Europe, resulting in a unique culture and townscape with no parallels found anywhere else in East and Southeast Asia.
The Grand Canal
The Grand Canal is a vast system of waterways in the northeastern and east-central plains of China, stretching from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang Province in the south. The Grand Canal was built in sections beginning in the fifth century BC and was first conceived as a unified means of transportation for the empire in the seventh century AD (during the Sui Dynasty). This resulted in a series of huge construction sites, creating the largest and most extensive civil engineering project in the world before the Industrial Revolution. It formed the backbone of the empire's inland transportation system, transporting food and strategic raw materials, and providing rice to feed the people. By the 13th century, it consisted of more than 2,000 kilometers of artificial waterways, connecting the basins of China's five major rivers. It played an important role in ensuring the country's economic prosperity and stability, and remains a major means of transportation to this day.
Mount Huangshan
Huangshan is known as "China's most beautiful mountain" and for a long time in Chinese history it was celebrated through art and literature (for example in the mid-16th century Shanshui style). Today it still holds the same allure for pilgrims, poets, painters and photographers, and is renowned for its stunning scenery, made up of many granite peaks and rocks emerging from a sea of clouds.
Great Hall of the People
The Great Hall of the People is the meeting place of the National People's Congress of China and the office place of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. It was completed in 1959 and is an important place for the Party, the State and various people's organizations of the People's Republic of China to hold political activities. The Great Hall of the People is located on the west side of Tiananmen Square and has a symmetrical shape. The facade adopts a classical vertical three-section design, and the base, colonnade and eaves are decorated with traditional Chinese architectural patterns. On the base are 12 red marble column bases and light gray marble column columns. According to the traditional Chinese architectural design method, the distance between the columns in the middle is slightly wider, and the distance between the columns on both sides decreases successively. The entrances around are composed of 134 colonnades with a diameter of 2 meters. There are 5 meters high and 83 meters wide granite steps in front of the main entrance. The Great Hall of the People is a rectangle that is long from north to south, which sets off the broad and far-reaching effect of the central axis of Beijing.
Anti-Japanese War Sculpture Park
The Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Memorial Sculpture Park was built to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The park has the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Memorial with the name of the monument inscribed by former President Jiang Zemin, a sculpture group area with the theme of "National Anthem" reflecting the eight-year bloody history of the Chinese people, as well as the sunken central square, Wanping City Wall, green forest and other major landscapes.