China News Service, Malacca, December 18 (Reporter Chen Yue) The "Send to the King Ship-Ceremony and Related Practices Concerning the Sustainable Connection between People and the Ocean" jointly declared by China and Malaysia (hereinafter referred to as "Send the King Ship") in Beijing On the evening of the 17th, it was included in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Yan Tianlu, Malacca State's special envoy for Chinese affairs, told a reporter from China News Agency that this joint “application for heritage” is a major innovation and will help further deepen the cultural exchanges between Malaysia and China.
Data map: The people are carrying the king boat to travel around.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Bin
Malaysia Yongquan Temple is the protection and inheritance unit of Malaysia's King Ship, and it preserves the complete information of Malaysia's King Ship.
Yan Tianlu, an honorary consultant of Yongquan Temple, told reporters that the folk custom of sending Wang Chuan has a history of hundreds of years in Malaysia. The Chinese ancestors brought this folk custom to Malaysia when they moved from China to Southeast Asia, and spread it locally, and became Fujian Chinese. One of the most distinctive and representative traditional folk activities.
"Today's ship to the king is not only full of nostalgia for overseas Chinese, but also a link of international non-governmental exchanges, becoming a valuable cultural resource for both Malaysia and China." Yan Tianlu said.
According to reports, the ship sent to the king in Malacca and the ship sent to the king in Xiamen, China were selected as cultural heritages of their respective countries in 2012 and 2011, and the cultural exchanges of the ship sent to the king in places such as Malacca and Xiamen are very active.
In recent years, Yongquandian has traveled to China more than ten times for exchanges, participated in the ceremonies of sending the king ship to Xia Zhang and other places, and became a brother palace with Zhangzhou Jinfa Palace.
Malaysia and China have established a deep friendship during the exchanges, and they have also promoted the inheritance, spread and development of the ship to the king.
Yan Tianlu said that in recent years, the governments and non-governmental organizations of Malaysia and China have actively promoted the “Wang Shi” application, organized activities to send the Wang Shi, set up an academic seminar platform and jointly carried out the “Wang Shi”, finally making this pioneering work. Realize as you wish.
With the successful inclusion of the royal ship on the list of representative works of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, Yan Tianlu said that sending the royal ship shows the profound cultural origins of Malaysia and China, and also lays a solid foundation for further promoting bilateral non-governmental cultural exchanges, and is a "people-to-people bond." Continue to develop and gather strength.
In the future, Malacca will carry out more cultural exchange projects with China, especially Xiamen City, deepen bilateral friendly cooperative relations, and jointly explore how to further promote and protect this folk resource.
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