Intangible cultural heritage is a valuable cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors, which not only has a long history of transmission, but also has a high cultural value. For the intangible cultural heritage we should give protection not to let the valuable old tradition in our hands disappeared. Here we go into the Hubei culture, look at the intangible cultural heritage of Hubei.
Folklore
Folklore, also known as oral literature, is mainly produced and passed down through the oral tradition. Its forms are rich and varied, including myths, legends, folk tales, epics, long poems, ballads, folk jokes, folk proverbs, riddles, and hysterics. The representative folklore projects in Hubei include Dong Yong legend, Qu Yuan legend, Wang Zhaojun legend, Yandi Shennong legend, Wujiagou folk tale, Yellow Crane Tower legend, and Darkness biography.
Traditional Music
Traditional music refers to a variety of music styles produced and circulated in folklore, including folk songs, folk instrumental music, dance music, opera music, operatic music, and folk ritual music. It is mainly produced and spread through oral creation. Regionality, flux, popularity, and program are the main signs of folk music. The representative traditional music in Hubei includes Wudangshan Gongguan Taoist music, Zhijiang folk music, Yichang silk bamboo, Xingshan folk songs, Weed gongs and drums, Laohekou silk strings, Mashan folk songs, suona art, gong art, etc.
Traditional dance music is a kind of folk music, which is mainly produced and spread through oral creation.
Traditional Dance
Traditional dance is the creation of the working people, passed down from generation to generation, in the daily life of the place of performance of a variety of traditional dances, which is an important part of the national folk culture, including life customs dance, the time of year and seasonal customs dance, life rituals dance, dance of religious beliefs, production customs dance, and so on. The representative traditional dances in Hubei include Tujia Ye'erho, Meat Lianrong, Gao Long, Tujia Pendulum Dance, Utopia Phoenix Lantern, Macheng Flower Pick, Xuan'en Tujia Eight Treasures Copper Bell Dance and so on.
Traditional Drama
Traditional Drama refers to the traditional theater art created by people of various ethnic groups in various regions of China. It synthesizes elements of literature, music, dance, painting, sculpture, acrobatics, martial arts, etc., and emphasizes singing, reading, acting and playing, with strong programs and techniques. The traditional drama circulating in Hubei are Han Opera, Beijing Opera, Chu Opera, Flower Drum Opera, Huangmei Opera, Shadow Play, Fiddle Opera, Nuo Opera, Tea Casting Opera, Han tune two spring and so on.
Curvy
Curvy is a general term for Chinese folk rap art, folk oral literature and singing art after a long period of evolution and development of a unique form of performing arts, the essential feature is the oral language for the rap performance. It has the characteristics of folklore, popularity, one person with multiple roles, and the transformation of the out into the rap, rap-based, simple and easy to perform. Hubei has representative of the arts program Hanchuan good book, Hubei commentary, Hubei drums, Hubei Xiaoqu, Nanqu, Enshi Yangqin, drums basin song, three drums and so on.
Traditional Sports, Amusement and Acrobatics
It includes traditional martial arts, traditional athletics, traditional sports, amusement, acrobatics, magic, circus, costume theater, comedy, etc. It has a deep tradition and a long history, and has a broad popular base. Hubei's traditional sports programs mainly include Wudang Wushu and Yuejiaquan.
Traditional Fine Arts
Traditional Fine Arts is a variety of visual plastic arts created by the general public, which can be broadly divided into four categories: folk painting, folk sculpture, folk crafts, and folk architecture, including paper-cutting, New Year's paintings, clay figures, mud sculptures, embroidery, weaving, kites, toys, and architectural decorations for residential buildings, etc., which are widely circulated in various ethnic groups and regions. The representative items in Hubei include carved paper-cutting, Daye stone carving, Tianmen sugar sculpture, Huangmei flower picking, Hong'an embroidery work, Yangxin cloth stickers, Wuhan wood carving boat model, Laohekou woodblock New Year's paintings, Han embroidery and so on.
Traditional skills
Traditional skills refer to handicraft techniques and crafts inherited from history. They include tool and machine making; processing of agricultural and livestock products; firing; weaving, dyeing and sewing; metal crafts; weaving and tying; lacquering; papermaking, printing and framing; and other kinds of crafts, such as salt making, pen making, ink making, pigment preparation, gunpowder preparation, and fireworks and firecrackers making. The representative projects in Hubei include Tujia hammock building techniques, lead and tin carving techniques, Chu lacquer painting techniques, Gao Hongtai gong making techniques, Herb Pipe Kiln handmade ceramic techniques, and Fengzheng zheng making techniques, etc.
Traditional medicines are the most popular traditional medicines in Hubei.
Traditional medicine
Traditional medicine mainly refers to traditional Chinese medicine and traditional medicine of some ethnic minorities, which belongs to an important part of the traditional folk knowledge system, with high scientific understanding and practical value. The representative projects of traditional medicine in Hubei include Ma Yinglong eye medicine production technology, Xia's Dan medicine production technology, Wudang Mountain Taoist medicine and so on.
Folklore
Folklore refers to the popular customs and habits of the people, he is embedded in the people's lives, is the main content of traditional folk culture. Folklore includes a wide range of production and trade customs, consumption customs, life rituals, seasons, folk knowledge, folk beliefs and so on. Hubei representative folk activities are the Qu Yuan hometown of Dragon Boat Festival, West Seaside Shenzhou will, Wudang Mountain Temple, Suizhou Shennong ceremony, Hanyang Guiyuan Temple, when the Yang Guanling Temple, Rayon beliefs and so on.