China News Service, Beijing, March 6 (Chen Jing) "The government work report pointed out that we should promote the protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage and solidly promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. I am deeply inspired." Yang Juni, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, accepted it on the 6th In an interview with China News Network, she said that as a grassroots literary and art worker of the Hani ethnic group born after 1995, she believes that innovative inheritance and promotion of intangible cultural heritage is one of the "passwords" to unlock rural revitalization.
Yang Yuni comes from Honghe County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. She is the principal of the Yuni Culture and Art Inheritance Center and a practitioner of the inheritance of Hani Terraces culture.
In 2015, when she was in her first year of college, she founded the "Yuni Culture and Art Inheritance Center" and applied to establish the teaching site of the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces Cultural Inheritance School, hoping to allow local children to step onto a bigger stage and bring Hani culture to a greater level. Far away.
The picture shows that in August 2023, Yang Yuni organized multi-ethnic folk artists to communicate face-to-face with children in Honghe County, and conducted outdoor cultural teaching of Hani children's songs, ancient songs, and music and dance.
Photo provided by interviewee
In the past 8 years, Yang Yuni has trained more than 3,000 students. More and more students are admitted to college through singing and dancing arts and have joined intangible cultural heritage.
After returning to her hometown to start a business, she also became a member of the team to revitalize the countryside through culture. In 2023, she won the Ministry of Education's first "National College Graduates Grassroots Employment Excellence Award".
In March last year, Yang Yuni, who was elected as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for the first time, put forward the "Suggestions on Increasing the Protection and Inheritance of the Living World Heritage Hani Rice Terraces", which received widespread attention.
This year, Yang Yuni put forward the "Proposal on Using the Multiple Cultural Heritage of the Hani Rice Terraces to Help Build a Strong Community Awareness of the Chinese Nation" based on full research, and suggested the establishment of a World Cultural Heritage Protection Foundation and the formulation of the Hani Rice Terraces Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Inheritance Award. By supplementing measures, creating demonstration areas for the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism, and cultivating a number of demonstration sites for intangible cultural heritage to promote rural revitalization, we will deepen the public’s understanding of the importance of intangible cultural heritage, enhance national identity, pride and belonging, and help create Firmly strengthen the sense of community of the Chinese nation.
"In the past year, my in-depth study and research on the front lines made me deeply aware of the responsibilities of members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference." Yang Yuni said that since last year, she has conveyed the spirit of the National Two Sessions through hospital consultations, special lectures, etc.; Go to your alma mater, Hunan University of Science and Technology, to share intangible cultural heritage and entrepreneurial experience with your juniors; go to the grassroots to understand the demands of Hani rice terrace farmers, and study and discuss the innovative development of Hani ancient songs, music and dance with folk writers and artists...
As a member of the Yunnan ethnic street dance troupe, Yang Yuni and her partners have created elements that young people like such as street dance and modern dance with intangible cultural heritage, making intangible cultural heritage "cool", "handsome", "beautiful" and "trendy" , and use this as a starting point to promote rural revitalization.
The picture shows Yang Yuni going to Chaoyang Primary School in Baohua Town, Honghe County to conduct a Hani terraced cultural inheritance class.
Photo provided by interviewee
"Since last year, I have used the Committee Studio as a platform to provide employment practice for returning college students during the winter and summer vacations, and carried out a series of activities such as rural research and style collection and creation." Yang Yuni said, and can now sing Hani ancient songs and dance music. There are fewer and fewer people who dance and understand the traditional national culture. In addition to protecting visible tangible heritage such as Hani Rice Terraces, governments at all levels must also increase protection of intangible cultural heritage such as production technology and song and dance arts.
To this end, Yang Yuni insists on carrying out public welfare training and promoting activities such as intangible cultural heritage, aesthetic education, and singing and dancing on campus.
"We need to start from childhood, gather the strength of young people, innovatively protect and inherit traditional culture." She said, hoping to further promote the development of rural tourism, rural cultural and creative industries and other rural cultural industries by cultivating villagers' good cultural living habits and needs. Comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
"Intangible cultural heritage is not an old thing scattered in the dust, but a living fossil in life, the source of rural revitalization." Yang Yuni said, "I will continue to organize and participate in activities such as sending art to the countryside and cultivating artistic talents for public welfare to help Intangible cultural heritage and traditional culture continue to breathe new life." (End)