Traveling Across Mountains and Rivers to Pick up Cultural Context

This book uses the first-person perspective of a traveler to panoramically sort out the complete system of China's intangible cultural heritage. It integrates traceability research, catalog combing, contextual interpretation, and inheritance records. It is a panoramic book of intangible cultural heritage that has both academic rigor and literary quality. The book relies on the national four-level intangible cultural heritage list system and the ten official category classification standards to systematically include all world-level and national-level intangible cultural heritage items. Tracing back to the budding civilizations of ancient ancestors and looking at the status quo of modern and contemporary living inheritance, it completely dismantles the origin, evolution, regional branches and cultural core of various types of intangible cultural heritage, covering folk literature, traditional music and dance, opera and folk arts, sports acrobatics, art skills, traditional medicine and folk customs. From the personal perspective of walking across mountains and rivers, the traveler connects the changes in the cultural context of thousands of years, abandons empty and redundant narratives, and takes into account both popular narrative and advanced writing. It not only accurately researches the origin of historical materials, institutional evolution, and application system, but also vividly records the inheritance of craftsmen, folk fireworks, and ethnic cultural memories, clarifying the complete trajectory of each intangible cultural heritage from its birth, formation, and transmission from generation to generation. The work breaks the limitations of fragmented science popularization, builds a systematic and comprehensive knowledge framework of Chinese intangible cultural heritage, and deeply interprets the core essence of "living civilization" of intangible cultural heritage. It not only provides a detailed and complete literature reference for intangible cultural heritage research, but also allows readers to understand the survival wisdom and cultural roots of the Chinese nation hidden in the mouth, fingertips, fireworks, and rituals.