Rural Elite Flow and Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Social Transformation Period

• Published in: Journal of landscape research Vol. 9; no. 5; pp. 82 - 90
• Main Authors: Fuli, Zhang, Zhaopan, Wei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cranston Wu Chu (USA-China) Science and Culture Media Corporation 01.10.2017
• Subjects: Cultural heritage; Cultural resources; Culture; Humanities; Inheritances; Oral tradition; Publishing industry; Rural areas; Science; Social sciences; Society; Theory; China
• DOI: 10.16785/jissn1943-989x.2017.5.017
• ISSN: 1943-989X

Under the violent impact of the social transformation period,traditional cultural heritage faces a great crisis of protection,inheritance and development.In the context of collapse of basic structure of traditional rural society,the protection of traditional cultural heritage becomes an important task in the new period.Although both the state and the society attach great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage,it still faces a huge crisis of disappearance.In the system,this is because cultural elite list system and intangible cultural heritage protection system are confronted with many practical problems.The cultural elite of the rural society,as main group of intangible culture inheritance,is always ignored and this has become a hidden trouble for cultural heritage protection.In this situation,it is recommended to constantly restore excellent cultural ecological environment,improve the supporting facilities of the intangible cultural protection system,cultivate cultural elites of rural areas at the level of endogenous driving force,improve the rural centripetal force centering on cultural elites,restore its functions in transmitting culture and guiding value in rural society,and rebuild the folk cultural elite regeneration mechanism,so as to real y push the intangible cultural heritage protection towards the sustainable development of inheritance.