In 2005, South Korea successfully applied for the Dragon Boat Festival in memory of China poet Qu Yuan as a cultural heritage. Judging from the current situation, their application for geomantic omen is likely to be successful again, because the whole of South Korea, from ordinary people to the president, to the UN Secretary-General, is supporting it.
However, in China, the government still officially regards geomantic omen as feudal dross and does not attach importance to it. In China's application list, they all disappeared.
As China people, on the one hand, we are disappointed with the inaction of the government; on the other hand, we ordinary people are trying our best to prevent the recurrence of similar Dragon Boat Festival events. We are happy to share our culture with the world, but at the same time we also think that any attempt to possess it is extremely shameful.
Gangneung danoje festival declared by South Korea was officially recognized by UNESCO as "Human Legend and Intangible Heritage Works" on 24th. The once heated dispute between China and South Korea over the application for the Dragon Boat Festival ended in South Korea's victory. In this regard, experts said in an interview with reporters this morning that intangible heritage belongs to all mankind, and the success of South Korea's application for heritage is not a bad thing.
According to a report by Yonhap News Agency of South Korea today, the representative of South Korea to UNESCO said that the UNESCO International Review Committee, composed of 18 experts, held a review committee at UNESCO in Paris from 2/kloc-0 to 24, and selected 43 of the 64 declared heritages, including the sacrifice of Gangneung Road, as "human legends and intangible heritage works". It is reported that the announcement system of "human legends and intangible heritage works" was implemented by UNESCO in 200 1 year after recognizing the value of intangible heritage in human history and the necessity of preservation. This is also the third batch of intangible heritage list published by UNESCO.
"South Korea's successful application for the World Heritage will have no impact on our Dragon Boat Festival culture. Intangible cultural heritage is the wealth enjoyed by all mankind, and our cultural tradition has been recognized by other countries. Personally, I don't think this is a bad thing, "Liu, chairman of the Chinese Folklore Society and a researcher at the China Academy of Social Sciences, said in an interview this morning. Liu Jiaoshou introduced that UNESCO's requirement for the declaration of intangible heritage is that each country can only declare one item every two years. There are many intangible heritages in China that need to be protected urgently, which led South Korea to declare them first.
"Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is actually different from our Dragon Boat Festival." Professor Gao of Peking University, secretary-general of China Folklore Society, said in an interview that the Korean Dragon Boat Festival is actually composed of dances, shaman sacrifices and folk art exhibitions, which is different from China people's activities such as eating zongzi, rowing dragon boats and commemorating Qu Yuan. "The only similarity is the time frame, which was held during the Dragon Boat Festival in China." Professor Gao said that the success of South Korea's application for World Heritage actually brought us a good enlightenment: they injected modern elements into traditional cultural activities, successfully realized modern transformation, and gained international recognition, which has reference significance for the protection of China's heritage.
Since last year, the dispute over the application for the Dragon Boat Festival has caused great repercussions in China academic circles and the people.
In addition, many Korean scholars claim that Chinese civilization originated in South Korea, and Chinese medicine should be "Korean medicine". Many ancient gods in China mythology originated from South Korea.