History and Culture
Home>About Hunan>History and Culture>Cultural Heritage
Taoyuan Embroidery Promoted in Schools
Taoyuan County in Changde City has fully utilized local cultural resources to conduct intangible cultural heritage-themed activities in schools on a regular basis. A local intangible cultural heritage...
More >Zhangjiajie Lantern Festival Celebration
The Zhangjiajie Lantern Festival Celebration is listed as one of Hunan's first batch of municipal-level intangible cultural heritage items. It integrates lantern shows, songs, dances, and musical perf...
More >"Animals on Fingertips": Traditional Palm Fiber Weaving Sought-after in Shaoyang
An intangible cultural heritage themed market was launched to celebrate the Lantern Festival at Chengnan Park in Shaoyang on February 11. At the market, a variety of lifelike palm fiber weaving crafts...
More >Banban Dragon Lantern Art Festival Kicks off in Cili
As an artistic treasure of Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Banban Dragon Lantern has been listed by the State Council as one of the fifth batch of national-level intangible cultural heri...
More >Fire Dragon Lantern Festival Held in Xiangxiang County
The Fire Dragon Lantern Festival is a traditional folk cultural event that has been carried forward for hundreds of years in Hutian Town, Xiangxiang City.
More >Jishou Hosts Intangible Cultural Heritage-themed Night Market to Greet Chinese New Year
Recently, the performance of "Steel Fire Dragon", a representative item of Hunan provincial intangible cultural heritage, was staged at a bustling night market in Qianzhou Neighborhood, Jishou City.
More >Artisan Make Paper Cuttings to Greet Spring Festival
Zhong Yi, an inheritor of paper-cutting intangible cultural heritage, is making snake-themed paper cuttings at the Intangible Cultural Heritage Center of Dongkou County. In recent days, the paper-cutt...
More >Artisan Dedicated to Passing on Chrysanthemum Stone Carving
Yonghe township, Liuyang city, located about 100 kilometers east of Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan Province, a special kind of stone known for chrysanthemum flower patterns can be found at...
More >Tantou Woodcut New Year Paintings Produced to Greet Upcoming New Year
The Tantou woodcut New Year painting was listed as one of the first batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage items in 2006. On December 29, artisans made Tantou woodcut New Year paintings ...
More >Traditional Drum-making Techniques Passed Down for A Century
Xiong's leather drum, recognized as a provincial-level intangible cultural heritage, has a recorded inheritance history of over 100 years. A drum is composed of a drum leather, a drum body, a bamboo m...
More >