Guizhou launches Intangible Cultural Heritage Season

The 2023 Guizhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Season — themed "Sparkling Wujiang Village: Intangible Cultural Heritage Carnival" — was launched on Monday at Wujiang Village Resort.

The event, which will last for five days, features a series of activities based on seminars, live experiences, innovations and food.

More than 100 inheritors of intangible cultural heritage will come together to showcase around 60 items, including handicrafts and performances, giving visitors an all-day, diverse and immersive experience.

Wujiang Village Resort, the host village of the event, has been transformed into a high quality scenic spot and a popular attraction.

"In recent years, Guizhou has relied on its rich intangible cultural heritage resources to turn its core areas into tourist destinations, and it has strived to achieve a broad, deep and high-quality integration of intangible cultural heritage and tourism," said Zheng Xin, deputy director of Guizhou's Department of Culture and Tourism.

During the carnival, the stage play Lion King, inspired by the national intangible culture of the Baizhifang Lion Dance and usually performed in first-tier city theaters, will be staged in Wujiang. Yang Jingwei, the seventh-generation inheritor of the dance, will perform at the event.

The play combines traditional intangible cultural heritage with Western theater forms, reconstructing dusty history and culture and providing a new cultural dimension. It is then integrated into Western drama to fully display the seven expressions — happiness, anger, melancholy, pondering, sadness, fear and fright.

Wang Jin contributed to this story.