Intangible culture with Related Tags
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Huaer originated in the early Ming Dynasty (around 1368 AD). It is a folk song created and shared by the Han, Hui, Tibetan, Dongxiang, Baoan, Salar, Tu, Yugu, and Mongolian ethnic groups in Gansu, Qinghai, and Ningxia in northwestern China. It is named because the lyrics compare women to flowers. It is sung in Chinese and is influenced by the traditional music of Qiang, Tibetan, Han, Tu, and Muslim ethnic groups. Due to the different musical characteristics, lyrics and regions of circulation, Huaer is divided into three major categories: "Hehuang Huaer", "Taomin Huaer" and "Liupanshan Huaer". In addition to impromptu singing while working in the fields, grazing in the mountains, and traveling, people also spontaneously hold a large-scale folk song competition "Huaerhui" at a specific time and place every year, which has the special value of multi-ethnic cultural exchange and emotional integration.
Chinese sericulture and silk weaving techniques
Sericulture and silk weaving are great inventions of China and cultural symbols of the Chinese nation. This heritage includes the production skills of the entire process of mulberry planting, silkworm breeding, silk reeling, dyeing and silk weaving, the various ingenious and sophisticated tools and looms used in the process, and the colorful silk products such as damask, gauze, brocade and kesi produced thereby, as well as the related folk activities derived from this process. For more than 5,000 years, it has made a significant contribution to Chinese history and has had a profound impact on human civilization through the Silk Road. This traditional production handicraft and folk activities are still popular in the Taihu Basin in northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu (including cities such as Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and Suzhou) and Chengdu, Sichuan, and are an inseparable part of China's cultural heritage.
Heritage with Related Tags
The Dolomites
The Dolomites are a mountain range located in the Alps in northern Italy, with 18 peaks exceeding 3,000 metres above sea level and covering an area of 141,903 hectares. It is home to some of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in the world, with vertical walls, steep cliffs and a dense concentration of narrow, deep and long valleys. The site consists of nine areas and presents a spectacular landscape of international geomorphological significance, marked by spires, pinnacles and rock faces, as well as glacial landforms and karst systems. It is characterised by dynamic processes, with frequent landslides, floods and avalanches. The site also contains one of the best preserved examples of a Mesozoic carbonate platform system, for which there is a fossil record.
The Cathedral of St James in Šibenik
The Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik (1431-1535), on the Dalmatian coast, bears witness to the great exchange of ideas in monumental art between northern Italy, Dalmatia, and Tuscany during the 15th and 16th centuries. The three architects who succeeded each other in building the cathedral—Francesco di Giacomo, Giorgio Mattei Dalmatius, and Niccolò di Giovanni Fiorentino—designed a structure built entirely of stone and employed unique architectural techniques in the cathedral’s vaults and domes. The cathedral’s form and decorative elements, such as the striking frieze featuring the faces of 71 statues of men, women, and children, also illustrate a successful fusion of Gothic and Renaissance art.
Khangchendzonga National Park
Located in the central Himalayas in northern India (Sikkim), Kanchenjunga National Park is a unique diversity of plains, valleys, lakes, glaciers and spectacular snow-capped mountains covered with ancient forests, including the world's third highest peak, Kanchenjunga. This mountain and a number of natural elements (caves, rivers, lakes, etc.) are associated with mythological stories and worshipped by the indigenous people of Sikkim. The sacred significance of these stories and customs, integrated with Buddhist beliefs, forms the basis of Sikkimese identity.
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
Modern humans first arrived in Europe during the last Ice Age, 43,000 years ago. One of the areas they settled was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Six caves excavated since the 1860s have yielded objects dating back between 43,000 and 33,000 years. These include animal figurines (including cave lions, mammoths, horses and bovines), musical instruments and personal ornaments. Other figurines depict creatures that are half-human, half-animal, and one female statue. These archaeological sites display some of the oldest figurative art in the world, helping to illuminate the origins of human artistic development.
Amami-Oshima Island, Tokunoshima Island, Northern part of Okinawa Island, and Iriomote Island
Located in southwestern Japan, the series of sites covers 42,698 hectares of subtropical rainforest on four islands, forming an arc on the border of the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea, with its highest point being Yumaru-dake on Amami Oshima, at 694 metres above sea level. The site is completely uninhabited and has a high biodiversity value, with a very high proportion of endemic species, many of which are globally endangered. The site is home to endemic plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, inland water fish and decapod crustaceans, such as the endangered Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) and the endangered Ryukyu woolly rat (Diplothrix legata), which represent ancient lineages with no living relatives anywhere in the world. Five mammals, three birds and three amphibians within the site have been globally recognised as Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species. In addition, many different endemic species are present on each island, which are not found elsewhere in the site.
Zagori Cultural Landscape
The small stone villages of Zagori are scattered across the remote countryside of northwestern Greece, along the western slopes of the northern section of Mount Pindus. These traditional villages are usually built around a central square with a plane tree. Surrounding the villages are sacred forests maintained by the local community. The villages display architectural traditions adapted to the mountainous terrain. A network of stone arch bridges, cobblestone paths and stone steps connects the villages, which are the political and social units of the community along the Voïdomatis River.
Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain
total of 17 Paleolithic Decorated Caves have been inscribed as an extension of the Altamira Caves, inscribed in 1985. The property will now be inscribed as the Altamira Caves and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain. The property represents the culmination of Paleolithic cave art, which developed throughout Europe, from the Ural Mountains to the Iberian Peninsula, from 35,000 BC to 11,000 BC. The caves are exceptionally well preserved due to their deep depths, which are protected from external climatic influences. The caves are listed as masterpieces of creative genius and the earliest artistic masterpieces of humanity. They are also listed as outstanding testimonies of a cultural tradition and outstanding examples of an important stage in human history.
Town of Bamberg
From the 10th century onwards, the town became an important link with the Slavic peoples, especially those in Poland and Pomerania. From the 12th century onwards, Bamberg reached its peak, with its architecture having a profound influence on northern Germany and Hungary. At the end of the 18th century, Bamberg became the centre of the Enlightenment in southern Germany, with famous philosophers and writers such as Hegel and Hoffmann living here.
Laponian Area
The Arctic Circle region in northern Sweden is home to the Sami people. This is the world's largest (and last) region where people live an ancestral way of life based on the seasonal migration of livestock. Every summer, the Sami lead their huge reindeer herds through this still well-preserved natural landscape to the mountains, but now threatened by motor vehicles. History and ongoing geological processes can be seen in the moraines and changing waterways.
Las Médulas
In the 1st century AD, Roman authorities began mining gold in this area of northwestern Spain using a technology based on water power. After two centuries of mining, the Romans withdrew, leaving behind a desolate landscape. In the absence of subsequent industrial activity, surprising traces of this remarkable ancient technology can be seen everywhere, such as steep walls on the hillsides and large areas of tailings, now used for agriculture.
Ensemble of the Ferapontov Monastery
The Ferapontov Monastery, located in the Vologda Oblast in northern Russia, is a well-preserved Russian Orthodox monastery complex from the 15th to 17th centuries, a period of great significance for the development of the unified Russian state and its culture. The monastery's architecture stands out for its originality and purity. The monastery's interior is decorated with magnificent frescoes by Dionysius, the greatest Russian artist of the late 15th century.