Several projects aiming to inherit Nvshu culture have been completed in Jiangyong County, such as the Shangjiangyu Nvshu Culture and Tourism Town, the Goulan Yao Ecology Museum, and the Huashan Temple. An array of Nvshu customs have been recovered and promoted, including Nshu chanting, the Huashan temple fair, the Douniu Festival (sister festival), and Zuogetang.
A Nvshu Ecology Museum has been built in the core region of Nvshu transmission, with a 5,000-sqm Nvshu Garden. There is an exhibition hall and a lecture hall of Nvshu writing, and a digital museum integrating text, image, audio and video storage and searching functions, which will become a data base of Nvshu cultural resources.
Jiangyong County has set up 10 intangible cultural heritage (ICH) inheritance bases, three ICH exhibition halls, and two ICH performance sites. Among them, the Nvshu Ecology Museum, the Qingxi Yao Museum, and the Qianjiadong Yao Embroidery Workshop are widely known, with a collection of 15,330 images and 8,156 physical exhibits.
In 2016, Jiangyong Nshu made a debut at the United Nations’ special exhibition celebrating Chinese Language Day in Geneva, Switzerland. Exquisite Nvshu works have been presented by Chinese leaders to foreign guests as a national gift. More than 60 Nvshu academic symposiums and over 120 cultural exhibitions have been held at home and abroad.
This article is from Hunan Provincial Government. www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Pang Yuehui
Chinese source: Chinanews
