The former undersecretary of Ministry of Culture Zhou Heping and the former director of HR Department of Ministry of Culture Zhang Yafang had arrived at the college chair

via: 大连艺术学院 date: 11/10

In Oct. 10, it's honored for us to invite the undersecretary of Ministry of Culture Zhou Heping and the former director of HR Department of Ministry of Culture Zhang Yafang have given a course about the intangible cultural heritage. It was held at intraday 2:10 p.m. in the first floor of the library, with more than 300 teachers and students attending.
At the very beginning of the chair, the college dean Jiang Maofa had introduced the efforts that the college had made in "the Intangible Cultural Heritage" work and expressed that the college would continue to push the inheriting of the "the Intangible Cultural Heritage".
Later, Dean Jiang Maofa had issued Dalian Art College Guest Professor Appointment Letter to the former undersecretary of Ministry of Culture Zhou Heping and the former director of HR Department of Ministry of Culture Zhang Yafang.
During the chair, Undersecretary Zhou Heping in the view of the culture confidence perseverance and "the Intangible Cultural Heritage" protection strengthening, made use of the cases like Rock Painting of Mount Helan, Culture of Hongshan, Posthumous Papers of Dunhuang, the Yongle Canon, the Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature, and the 24 solar terms, and described Chinese excellent traditional culture is the foundation of our culture confidence perseverance from three aspects, such as the cultural relics and historic sites in the whole country, the vast ancient books and records, and the colorful intangible cultural heritage active state. When talking about "the Intangible Cultural Heritage", the undersecretary Zhou Heping expressed it was, as the creation and the achievement passed down by the Chinese ethnic peoples from generation to generation, the traditional culture manifestation patterns that are closely bound up with people's production and life, especially the ones relevant to the art, such as the traditional music, the traditional dance, the traditional drama, Chinese folk art forms, the traditional fine arts and the traditional skill, etc.
The undersecretary Zhou Heping had narrated the protection situation of the intangible cultural heritage of China from all kinds of aspects, such as the definition of the intangible cultural heritage, ten varieties, the content listed into the national intangible cultural heritage project, the working policy of the intangible cultural heritage protection in China, and the implementation development of the intangible cultural heritage work. Secondly, the undersecretary Zhou Heping had told the main experience in the intangible cultural heritage protection from six aspects. Finally, he had concluded the principles to master in the intangible cultural heritage protection from four aspects: Protect Prior, Rescue First, Utilize Reasonably, and Inherit to Develop.
After the chair of the undersecretary Zhou Heping, the former director of HR Department of Ministry of Culture Zhang Yafang had given a report on Reflections on the Integration of "the Intangible Cultural Heritage" to the education. Firstly, Director Zhang Yafang had highly appreciated the development of our college and the intangible cultural heritage protection base built by our leader team, thought we were so great to successfully gain the five national art fund projects, and thanked our college for cultivation in the Man nationality culture, the handcraft research and the humanity cultivation. Secondly, Director Zhang Yafang had talked about her acknowledges of education and intangible cultural heritage. She said, it's very important to bring the intangible cultural heritage into the education, which shall be strengthened; The students shall understand the cultural content of the intangible cultural heritage, which means the expression ways of all cultures not the physical form; For the protection, inheriting and creation of the intangible cultural heritage, both the protection and the inheriting process shall respect the original charm and taste. The creation shall be done on the base of the good traditional craft. Examples had been taken to explain the huge economic benefit brought by the intangible cultural heritage inheriting and creation.
Both Undersecretary Zhou Heping and Director Zhang Yafang are the main constitutors and pusher for the intangible cultural heritage protection policy in China, bearing the biggest right to speak for the intangible cultural heritage. Such a course of lectures definitely has a strong guidance meaning in the teachers' understanding of the intangible policy, the intangible protection and development situation and the existing problems, expanding our vision and undertaking the research and the tasks.
Dalian Art College, as a comprehensive art college had carried out the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Research into Colleges and Universities" in the colleges and universities of the Northeast China Region in 2013, and had been rewarded by the Dalian government as "Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base" plaque, which was the first research base awarded plaque and named by the government agency. In recent years, the college has specially formed up the intangible cultural heritage research center of Dalian Art College. Inheritors of "the Intangible Cultural Heritage" have come to the campus to give performances and chairs, the leaders of the science research have carried out the subject study on "the Intangible Cultural Heritage", the colleges and universities have set up the relevant majors and courses of "the Intangible Cultural Heritage", the theory and practice exhibition of the excellent "Intangible Cultural Heritage" projects have been undertaken, and a batch of excellent achievements have sprung up.