China Cultural and Natural Heritage Day sees Hainan hosting over 160 events

KUALA LUMPUR, June 13 (Bernama) -- With the Cultural and Natural Heritage Day having kicked off on June 11, the southernmost province of China, Hainan, hosted and organised various forms of intangible cultural heritage activities.

These are aimed to celebrate, exhibit, and promote the splendid traditional cultures in three venues set up in Haikou, Sanya, and Danzhou, according to the Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province in a statement.

On June 7, the Hainan Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Fine Arts Exhibition commenced at the Hainan Provincial Museum, covering a wide variety of categories of art such as Chinese painting, oil painting, printmaking, watercolour painting, and wood carving, among others.

A total of 106 works of art embodied the charming intangible cultural heritage and received audience appreciation.

The 2022 Hainan Intangible Heritage Shopping Festival was scheduled in Haikou on June 11. Visitors can not only enjoy shopping for exquisite handicrafts at the intangible cultural heritage fair but also attend festival activities online via Hainan Intangible Cultural Heritage's TikTok and Little Red Book accounts, and on the https://www.hainanfp.com/ website.

As a world-renowned coastal tourist city, Sanya integrates fashion into intangible heritage at its venue. About 100 craftsmen demonstrated Li Brocade skills and performers presented fashion shows featuring Li Brocade costumes on site.

In addition, Danzhou highlights the distinctive features of local intangible heritage with themed celebrations where cities and counties from western Hainan bring their intangible heritage performances to the stage.

Hainan now has 32 representative projects of national intangible heritage, 82 representative projects of provincial intangible heritage, and over 300 representative projects of city-level and county-level intangible heritage.

During 2022 Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, Hainan hosted more than 160 online and offline publicity events to raise awareness on the need to protect intangible cultural heritage.

-- BERNAMA