For young generation, cultural heritage has future
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STUDENTS wearing folk costumes performed a lion dance, Huju Opera and even Suzhou pingtan, a traditional narrative originated in Suzhou, at Zhongshan Park on June 8 when Changning District marked the 11th China Culture Heritage Day on June 11.
Performances were staged next to the lotus pond and exhibitions of traditional handicrafts and intangible cultural heritage in Changning. The ceremony was jointly held by the district civilization office and the education and culture bureaus as a tribute to the decade-long effort to promote intangible cultural heritage at local schools.
Changning has gone to great lengths to promote traditional handicrafts and other intangible cultural heritage at local schools.
Young pingtan performers from Yao Liansheng Middle School shared the stage with senior players of jiangnan sizhu, a folk music popular in Shanghai and its neighboring areas. The teenagers share the same love for performing the traditional art as 70-year-old musicians.
Fortunately, a number of traditions are being kept alive by the younger generation in Changning.
Apart from the pingtan troup in Yao Liansheng Middle School, more than a dozen of schools in Changning have extracurricular clubs where youngsters learn traditional arts or handicrafts.
Students from Shanghai Xiandai Vocational and Technical School are good lion dancers and skilled at rolling lanterns — both traditional forms of folk art that combine dance and acrobatics.
Their performance drew the attention of many amused onlookers. Lions, shrimp soldiers, crab generals and other traditional figures and mascots from Chinese fairy tales or legends made for a magnificent carnival scene.
Shanghai Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center Changning branch awarded bronze certificates to seven local schools. Six students were honored as talented inheritors of district intangible cultural heritages.
At several stalls exhibiting traditional cultural works, students from local schools showed off their skills in paper tearing, dough modeling, stone carving, rope art, palm fiber weaving and embroidered painting. A graffiti wall made of eight local peasant paintings was also on display.
Visitors were invited to join the on-going painting when master Hu Peiqun sketched the outline of the composite work.
District authorities cooperate with schools to launch courses to promote intangible cultural heritage like Huju Opera, peasant painting, paper tearing, string and wind musical performances and diabolo playing in campus. The project successfully integrated intangible cultural heritage into schools. Many students were willing to learn the traditional art forms and developed high skills or knowledge in the learning process.
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