There is still a chance for South Korea’s Dragon Boat Festival to successfully apply for World Heritage status. my country’s Dragon Boat Festival still has a chance

The “Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival” declared by South Korea has been officially designated by UNESCO as a “human legend and intangible heritage work” ". This news caused a strong reaction in the country. Netizens left messages in major communities, saying, "This is a serious cultural invasion!", "We have forgotten our ancestors!" "The 'Dragon Boat Festival' was taken away by South Korea." ...

Are the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea and the Dragon Boat Festival in my country the same thing? Does the successful application of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival as a World Heritage Site have any impact on the application of the Dragon Boat Festival as a World Heritage in my country? What inspiration should we get?

News came from Paris that South Korea’s Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival has become a world intangible cultural heritage. Various comments immediately appeared on major online forums. Most netizens expressed their approval of the success of South Korea’s Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival. "Unacceptable." Folklorists said that South Korea's successful application for the World Heritage List will not affect my country's application for the Dragon Boat Festival. .

Netizens: I feel ashamed of Qu Yuan and my ancestors

Experts: There is no dispute over the two countries’ application for UNESCO World Heritage.

“If Qu Yuan was still alive. , he will definitely say: I will be Korean from now on! I am really ashamed of Qu Yuan! "

"Now that we celebrate foreign festivals and wear Western clothes, we have lost our own cultural traditions, lost our own festivals, and are about to lose our own language and writing! We have forgotten our ancestors! ! ! "

"A moment of silence for the Chinese traditional festival 'Dragon Boat Festival' which was preempted by Koreans! ! ! ! "...

These are all posts from netizens that appeared in major online communities after South Korea's "World Heritage application" was successful.

Of course, some netizens also made deep reflections: " Look at some of the places in our country that have successfully applied for World Heritage status. What are they doing with the heritage left by their ancestors? It's nothing more than an increase in ticket prices and an increase in local government revenue. Have they done anything to protect the heritage? It’s better not to rush to fight for this world heritage, but to actually do a good job in protecting the heritage! "

Compared with the fierce reaction of netizens, the reaction of folklorists seemed much calmer. Dr. Song Junhua of the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center of Sun Yat-sen University said that in fact, the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea and the Dragon Boat Festival in my country are It’s not the same thing. After South Korea’s “incorporation” is successful, our country’s Dragon Boat Festival can still be “incorporated”. Therefore, there is no dispute between the two countries and the concept of South Korea “winning.” Deliberately hyping up this topic to attract attention. ”

Korean friends: Protecting traditional culture is fundamental

Folklorists: “Applying for World Heritage” is not a preemptive trademark

Kim Xiang-sang is living in China He has been a Korean for many years. He said that the Korean government and people attach great importance to traditional culture, and the culture of Confucius and Mencius is quite popular in Korea. This shows how much South Korea attaches importance to traditional culture. p>

Kim Xiang-sang said: “The Chinese people’s current reaction to the success of South Korea’s Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival’s inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List is normal. This is very similar to the Korean people’s previous reaction to Japan’s export of Korean specialty kimchi to the world. Kimchi is a specialty of South Korea, but the first country in the world to export kimchi was Japan. The Korean people were very angry at the time, but they learned their lesson rationally and began to pay attention to the promotion and protection of Korean traditional culture. The Chinese people should also look at this issue rationally. ”

After the news came out that the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea was successfully applied for World Heritage status, the phone of Gao Bingzhong, secretary-general of the Chinese Folklore Society and professor of the Department of Sociology at Peking University, has been ringing non-stop. As a sign of his commitment to cultural heritage protection Professor Gao, the Secretary-General of the Chinese Folklore Society, reacted relatively calmly to the successful application of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea as a World Heritage Site.

Professor Gao opposed the application of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea as a cultural plunder.

He believes that this statement firstly misunderstands the purpose of intangible cultural heritage application, and secondly confuses "application" with registered trademarks. "'Application' is to put forward representative works of culture so that the whole world can know about them. And sharing. This is different from trademark registration. It does not mean that if South Korea's Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is successfully applied for World Heritage, Chinese people will have to pay for celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival in the future."

Professor Gao said: "Culture is. It is something that everyone can enjoy, unlike bread, if you take one more bite, I will take one less bite. Never look at cultural heritage the same way you look at bread."

Dr. Song Junhua also said. He said that many intangible cultural heritages have strong national characteristics, and such national things may exist in different countries and regions. For example, the Morin Khuur, which is popular in Inner Mongolia, was declared as an intangible cultural heritage by Mongolia last year, and the shadow puppet show, which is well-known in China, was also declared as a cultural heritage by Indonesia.

Reflection: Why folklore becomes valuable only when it is “lost”

Enlightenment: Build an effective mechanism to protect traditional culture

However, no matter how experts explain it, Koreans’ “ The action of applying for World Heritage status still hurts the self-esteem of the Chinese people. "Why are foreign countries interested in our folk festivals? And why do Chinese people only realize how precious they are at this time?" A netizen's question on the Sina community triggered many people's thinking.

In this regard, Dr. Song Junhua believes that it is very valuable that Chinese people regard traditional things as part of our culture and even life. However, we cannot simply think that the successful application of South Korea's Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival to be a World Heritage Site is robbing China of cultural heritage. The key is that we should establish an effective mechanism to protect the traditional national culture.

Dr. Song said that the government should give more full consideration to the continuation of traditional culture when formulating policies. He said that the country has currently conducted a nationwide census of intangible cultural heritage, and will also introduce relevant laws and policies to increase the protection of China's intangible cultural heritage.

The Dragon Boat Festival of the two countries is not the same thing

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival: The Dragon Boat Festival is also commonly known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Tianzhong Festival. In addition to the Han people, there are also Manchu and Mongolian people. This festival is celebrated by about 28 ethnic minorities including Tibetan, Miao, Yi, She, Xibo and Korean. Our country's Dragon Boat Festival has been introduced to Japan, North Korea, Vietnam and other countries very early. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from my country's ancient Dragon Sacrifice Day, where the dragon's deterrent power is used to drive away all disasters and evil spirits. Later, commemorations of local celebrities were gradually added, such as commemorating Qu Yuan in Hunan and Chudi in Hubei in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.

Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival, South Korea: Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is a large-scale folk event in which citizens of Gangneung City, South Korea pray for a good harvest and good health and hold games such as wrestling and swinging. According to research by Korean scholars, the content of the Dragon Boat Festival was described in Nam Hyo-on's "Chukangji" during the "Joseon Dynasty". Therefore, the origin of the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival can be traced back to 1,000 years ago.