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Intangible cultural heritage is the essence of national culture, the crystallization of national wisdom. There are 56 nationalities in China. Each ethnic group has created rich and colorful intangible cultural heritage in China’s long historical development process.
Since the reform and opening-up, with the acceleration of industrialization and urbanization, people’s production and living ways have made a significant change. It also brings different degrees of damages to the environment in which the intangible cultural heritage exists.
As a fresh and living culture, intangible cultural heritage is an important part of public life. In contemporary world it still sends out the unique splendor and charm. It still is an inexhaustible motive for inheriting culture and promoting social development, the foundation and source of cultural innovation.
Therefore, rescuing and protecting the intangible cultural heritages endangered and living in dilemma has become a very urgent historical task times endows us.
Cultural ecological reserve takes the protection of the intangible cultural heritage as the core. It is a particular designated area that comprehensively protects cultural forms rich in history, surviving in good condition and those possessing distinct regional cultural characteristics and value to promote the comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable economic and social development.