The 8th China Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival opened.

On October 12th, the 8th China Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival opened in Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Expo Park. The theme of this year’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival is "Sharing the Implementation Practice and Deepening the Mutual Learning of Civilizations", and a number of special festival activities will be held to show the achievements of international intangible cultural heritage protection and share the practical experience of China’s implementation. Rao Quan, Vice Minister of Culture and Tourism, Shi Xiaolin, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of Chengdu Municipal Committee, and Yang Xingping, Vice Governor attended and jointly launched the opening ceremony.

In this year’s Intangible Heritage Festival, more than 900 intangible heritage projects, more than 6,000 intangible heritage inheritors and guests from 47 countries (regions) around the world and domestic provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) gathered in Chengdu, and more than 30 festival activities with distinctive features will be held in four sections: Wuzhou Intangible Heritage, Shenzhou Intangible Heritage, Bashu Intangible Heritage and Yunshang Intangible Heritage. On the day of the opening ceremony, 47 domestic and foreign non-legacy performance teams conducted a Tianfu parade, presenting a colorful five-continent style. This is also the first return of the Tianfu Parade after 12 years. In addition, five exhibitions, namely, the exhibition of modern life experience of intangible cultural heritage, the international handicraft exhibition, the IP authorization exhibition of Sichuan international intangible cultural heritage brand, the competition exhibition of Chengdu and Chongqing, and the exhibition of Sichuan intangible cultural heritage, were opened at the same time, showing the path of China’s intangible cultural heritage innovation and empowerment to the world through different themes and presentation methods.

As an academic activity brand of Chengdu International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, the Chengdu Forum on Intangible Cultural Heritage opened on the afternoon of the 12th, and more than 140 experts and scholars from home and abroad gathered together to review the international community’s fulfillment practices and deepen exchanges and mutual learning on intangible cultural heritage protection around the 20th anniversary of the publication of UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

During this year’s non-legacy festival, a forum on the protection and development of intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine will be held to exchange views on issues such as the systematic protection of traditional Chinese medicine. Performances and exhibitions such as Chengdu International Guqin Art Festival will be held in various parts of Chengdu, and the intangible cultural heritage activities on the cloud will also be launched simultaneously with the offline.(Reporter   Wu Xiaoling)