"Chinese Traditional Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs" was successfully inscribed

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism that on November 29, China's declaration of "traditional Chinese tea-making skills and related customs" passed the review at the 17th ordinary session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Rabat, Morocco, and was included in the UNESCO Representative List
of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

"Traditional Chinese Tea-Making Techniques and Related Customs" is the knowledge, skills and practices
related to tea garden management, tea picking, tea handmaking, and tea drinking and sharing.
Since ancient times, Chinese has been growing tea, picking tea, making tea and drinking tea
.
According to the local customs, tea makers use core techniques such as killing, stuffy yellow, wu pile, withering, greening, fermentation, kilning, etc.
, to develop green tea, yellow tea, black tea, white tea, oolong tea, black tea and other reprocessed teas, more than 2,000 kinds of tea, for people to drink and share, and thus formed different customs, passed down from generation to generation, throughout the daily life, ceremonies and festivals of Chinese
.

Traditional tea-making techniques are mainly concentrated in the four major tea areas of Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Southwest and South China south of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains and east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and the relevant customs are widely spread throughout the country and shared
by many ethnic groups.
Through the Silk Road, the Tea Horse Road, the Wanli Tea Ceremony, etc.
, tea has crossed history and borders, and is deeply loved by people around the world, and has become an important medium for China and the people of the world to know and intersect, and exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese civilization and other civilizations in the world, and become the common wealth
of human civilization.

The mature and developed traditional tea-making technology and its extensive and in-depth social practice reflect the creativity and cultural diversity of the Chinese nation, and convey the concept
of tea and the world, inclusiveness.
Through tea making, tea brewing and tea tasting, Chinese cultivated a peaceful and inclusive mentality, formed a subtle and introverted character, and improved the spiritual realm and moral accomplishment
.
Tea drinking and sharing is an important way for people to communicate and communicate, and tea-related customs such as tea hospitality and elders first highlight the humanistic spirit
of Chinese humility, harmony, courtesy and respect.
Driven and promoted by tea culture, China's tea industry has developed rapidly, and the level of tea science and technology has steadily improved
.
Tea culture, tea industry, tea science and technology, this big article also plays an active role
in providing sustainable livelihoods, promoting gender equality, promoting rural revitalization, protecting terrestrial ecosystems, and promoting social, economic and environmental sustainable development.

Up to now, a total of 43 items in China have been included in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List and List, ranking first
in the world.

44 items related to "Chinese traditional tea-making techniques and related customs" have been included in the national representative list of intangible cultural heritage
approved and published by the State Council 。 In order to ensure the viability of the heritage project and enhance the vitality of the inheritance, relevant communities, groups and individuals established a conservation working group in December 2020 and jointly formulated the "Five-Year Protection Plan for Traditional Chinese Tea-making Skills and Related Customs (2021-2025)", which will encourage inheritors to teach apprenticeships in accordance with traditional methods, rely on secondary vocational colleges and institutions of higher learning to cultivate specialized talents, and consolidate intergenerational inheritance.
Capacity-building through training courses on the protection and transmission of transmission; Establish research bases, compile popular reading books, and carry out relevant exhibition tours to raise the awareness of young people to protect them
.
At the same time, coordinated protection actions
are implemented through measures such as strengthening confirmation and management, improving the level of archiving, carrying out academic research, improving protection coordination mechanisms, maintaining practice sites, and organizing various forms of publicity activities.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism and relevant local governments will actively support relevant communities, groups and individual organizations to implement a series of protection measures to do a good job in the inheritance and practice
of this heritage project.

China Food News(Version 07, December 01, 2022)

(Responsible editor: Yuan Guofeng)