A boy holding a shadow puppet and swinging the joystick under the guidance of professionals, the small beasts on the shadow puppet dance with it... July 15th, the first China Panjiayuan African Cultural Heritage Conference with the theme of "People’s Intangible Heritage and People’s Sharing The Cultural Heritage Festival opens.

More than 30 national and provincial non-genetic inheritors gathered at Panjiayuan Market in Beijing to offer visitors a feast of intangible cultural heritage.

  It is reported that the intangible cultural heritage festival includes three major sections: the 2021 intangible cultural heritage digitalization summit forum, the "non-genetic human talks intangible cultural heritage" forum, and the "intangible cultural heritage and skills exhibition exchange meeting".

During the event, more than 30 national and provincial non-genetic inheritors showed off their skills on site.

  Shuang Yan, the representative inheritor of the national intangible heritage project, said in his booth of the clay colored sculpture Tuerye that he and his son came here to set up the exhibition this time to spread the history and culture of Beijing Tuerye.

In addition, he also mentioned that he would regularly teach in Beijing's universities, middle schools, primary schools and communities to spread the Tuerye culture to more citizens.

  "This cultural festival is the beginning. We hope to provide a platform for concentrated display of intangible cultural heritage art inheritors, so that more people can understand, love and protect intangible cultural heritage, so that intangible cultural heritage can go further in Panjiayuan", Panjiayuan, Beijing Said Lu Changhai, general manager of the second-hand market.

  (Xu Jing produced Zhou Jing)

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]