Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client February 20 (Reporter Li Xuan) On December 19, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced the sixth batch of recommended candidates for the representative inheritors of national intangible cultural heritage. Among them, the Tujia Nationality in Western Hunan Five inheritors from Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Tian Zhixin, Nie Dayong, Wan Yuqi, Wu Yingji and Yang Guijun, are on the list. Their intangible cultural heritage projects include traditional dance, traditional art, and traditional skills.
Tian Zhixin, a native of Guzhang County, has the Tujia hand-waving dance as his representative project. He learned hand-waving dance from his father since he was a child. He mastered the basic movements of hand-waving dance at the age of 12 and gradually became a well-known Tujia hand-waving dance master. In 2018, Tian Zhixin became the provincial representative inheritor of Tujia hand-waving dance.
Nie Dayong is from Fenghuang County. His representative project is Caizha (Phoenix Paper). In 2008, "Cai Zha (Phoenix Paper Zha)" was approved by the State Council and included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Nie Dayong is the sixth generation descendant of Phoenix Zhizi. The paper paper made by him is in various shapes and lifelike, and many of them are the representative works of Phoenix Zhizi.
Wan Yuqi is from Yongshun County. His representative project is the Tujia stilted building construction technique. He learned the skills of Tujia stilted house construction from his master since he was a child. At the age of 27, he started to practice calligraphy on his own and has been practicing the art for more than 40 years. The stilted buildings and the Tuwang Palace built in Lotus Square, Furong Town have the typical beauty of shape and decoration of Tujia stilted buildings, and have become typical representatives of Tujia stilted buildings.
Wu Yingji is a native of Huayuan County. His representative project is Miao embroidery (Xiangxi Miao embroidery). In September 2012, her work "Drunk" won the gold medal at the China Hunan Embroidery Culture and Art Festival; on December 22, 2012, her work "Let Me Go" won the bronze medal at the Academy Awards Meeting of the Hunan Vocational College of Fine Arts. Award and "Colorful Lily" won the Excellence Award; in October 2014, her "Twelve Zodiac Signs" won the bronze medal at the Zhangjiagang Folk Art Expo in China.
Yang Guijun is from Luxi County. His representative project is paper-cutting (stepping on a tiger and cutting out flowers). He studied under the great master Huang Kaotian. After years of painstaking training, Yang Guijun's works of stepping on tigers and cutting flowers have won various awards at the provincial, ministerial and national levels, and many of his works have been sold abroad.
In recent years, Xiangxi Prefecture has actively promoted the overall protection, dynamic inheritance and productive transformation of intangible cultural heritage. It has taken the lead in building the only national cultural and ecological protection zone in Hunan Province, promulgated the country's first local regulations for the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and pioneered intangible cultural heritage. A pioneer in the legal protection of heritage. The revision of the "Regulations on the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Cultural Heritage of Xiangxi Prefecture" was launched, 13 intangible cultural heritage venues were improved, and 15 large-scale ethnic festivals such as the Autumn Festival and Tujia New Year were held. Up to now, Xiangxi Prefecture has 28 national-level intangible cultural heritage representative projects, 111 provincial-level projects, 247 state-level projects, 922 county-level projects, and 1,229 inheritors.
