In September 2009, the Dragon Boat Festival became the first Chinese traditional festival to be listed as a “World Intangible Cultural Heritage” item by the United Nations. It’s of special significance to experience intangible cultural heritage during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. In the ICH Comprehensive Exhibition Hall in Linwu County, a variety of traditional handicrafts are neatly displayed, including Qi Opera costumes, Nuo Opera masks, and straw plaiting.

 

Tour guides were arranged to tell visitors about the development history, inheritance and innovation of each intangible cultural heritage item. Visitors listened to the explanations and deeply understood the long history and magic of these brilliant handicrafts. On that day, the exhibition hall received more than 180 visitors.

 

 

So far, Linwu County has 44 representative intangible cultural heritage items, 99 inheritors, 17 municipal inheritance bases (crafts education centers), 1 municipal intangible cultural heritage workshop, 1 intangible cultural heritage village, and 1 intangible cultural heritage employment workshop. It is the only county-level ecological protection zone for Chinese traditional opera culture in Hunan Province.