Yangzhou Jade Carving Selected as National Heritage Bank

Yesterday, it was learned from the Provincial Department of Culture that five intangible cultural heritage projects such as Yangzhou jade carving, Suzhou embroidery, Yixing purple sand, Huishan clay figurines, and Suzhou Pingtan have been applied for as "China's World Cultural Heritage Reserve List" and are currently waiting in line for national intangible cultural heritage. The Committee of Protection Experts evaluates and selects candidates and waits for recommendation to enter the “Candidate List of the World’s Intangible Cultural and Cultural Heritage List”.

One place per year, 5 candidates per year per province

The "Masterpiece of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" is selected by UNESCO and selected once every two years. Each member state can have one project selected. It is reported that each province has 5 application places each year, and 170 projects need to apply each year. According to relevant sources from the Department of Cultural Affairs of the Provincial Department of Heritage, "a masterpiece of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind" can only be applied for one national work at a time. Therefore, it will take 85 years for each round of the national declaration project to be implemented. easy.

Since the State Council announced the first batch of state-level intangible cultural heritage lists in 2006, nearly 1300 national intangible cultural heritage items have entered the candidate database, and candidate projects in the library will be protected by the national intangible cultural heritage. The Committee of Experts conducts assessments and selections, from the intangible cultural heritage of talented masterpieces of outstanding human creativity, or from the four aspects of history, literature, art, and science, which have outstanding values ​​and are widely circulated. The ranking of values ​​and importance is finally recommended to enter the “Candidate List of the World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List” and then applied for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

In 1991, "Yangzhou Workers" entered the national "heritage repository"

Yangzhou jade carving has a history of more than 4,000 years. It has novel composition, exquisite styling, and exquisite workmanship. It has the basic characteristics of “thickness, mellowness, gracefulness, gracefulness, and exquisiteness”. In particular, the “shanzi carving” and “training the child” skills have unique characteristics. Yangzhou jade carving artist superb skills. The gold-plated jade medal that was highly praised at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was the skill of using Yangzhou jade carving.

In May 2006, Yangzhou jade carving was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of state-level intangible cultural heritage.

It is understood that the "China's World Cultural Heritage Prepared List" review standards with reference to the declaration standards of world heritage, each project must not only in the region, but also in the country, the world has outstanding value, protection and management conditions to be Good condition.

The “Prepared List of China's World Cultural Heritage” is subject to preliminary review by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage for submissions submitted by various localities. After the pending project is formed, it will be submitted to the China World Cultural Heritage Committee for evaluation.

It is reported that the state has never publicized the "Prepared List for China's World Cultural Heritage". However, if the National Committee of Experts on the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage recommends one of the five intangible cultural heritage projects in Jiangsu, the state will notify the place 1 year in advance and work together with the local authorities to do a good job in applying for world class intangible cultural heritage. .