FABMI

National ICH / Five State Council batches

Experience, learn, innovate.

A Chinese intangible heritage exhibition hall and workshop in Milan, taking Chinese intangible cultural heritage overseas. The national list holds 1,557 projects and 3,610 sub-items. The hall explains the source. The workshop runs the test. Transmission stays with inheritors.

1,557

National projects

3,610

Sub-items

2006 · 2008 · 2011 · 2014 · 2021

Published

Ten categories

See the field, then decide what to make.

Counts are sub-items in the compiled provincial lists. The same project often has extensions in several places, so provincial totals add up to more than 1,557.

01

Traditional crafts

传统技艺

628

02

Folk customs

民俗

491

03

Traditional theatre

传统戏剧

473

04

Traditional music

传统音乐

431

05

Traditional fine arts

传统美术

417

06

Traditional dance

传统舞蹈

356

07

Folk literature

民间文学

251

08

Quyi

曲艺

213

09

Traditional medicine

传统医药

182

10

Sports, games & acrobatics

传统体育、游艺与杂技

166

Practices in the room

Crafts that can sit beside digital tools.

A short list from traditional crafts and fine arts — work you can discuss at the coffee table and test beside a machine. Transmission stays with inheritors and protection units.

宣纸制作技艺

Xuan paper

Anhui

Sheets, books and large-format studies

南通蓝印花布印染技艺

Nantong blue calico

Jiangsu

Repeat, resist and textile pattern

剪纸

Paper cutting

Many regions

Hand cutting beside the laser

杨柳青木版年画

Yangliuqing prints

Tianjin

Block, registration and colour

景德镇手工制瓷技艺

Jingdezhen porcelain

Jiangxi

Form studies and documentation

宜兴紫砂陶制作技艺

Yixing zisha

Jiangsu

Objects for the table

南京云锦木机妆花手工织造技艺

Nanjing yunjin

Jiangsu

How a pattern is built

平遥推光漆器髹饰技艺

Pingyao lacquer

Shanxi

Surface, layer and finish

明式家具制作技艺

Ming-style furniture

Jiangsu and beyond

Joinery next to digital cutting

景泰蓝制作技艺

Cloisonné

Beijing

Metal, colour and enamel

嵊州竹编

Shengzhou bamboo weaving

Zhejiang

Structure and material

德格印经院藏族雕版印刷技艺

Derge woodblock printing

Sichuan

Block, page and archive

Three steps

Experience a craft. Learn the method. Innovate one step.

Heritage goes overseas inside one building: the hall makes a craft legible, the workshop tests it with new tools, and the table is where the conversation starts.

01

Experience

Meet one craft in the hall. See where it comes from, what it is made of, and the finished piece.

02

Learn

Understand the method, then try it once with print, cut and documentation tools. Learning serves the craft.

03

Innovate

Take one step beside the original, then sit down and talk about that step, and where it could go next.

By place

Where the list is held.

Darker places hold more entries. Select a place to read its total.

South China Sea

Source: provincial compilation of the State Council’s five national lists of representative intangible cultural heritage. Fabmi shows the cultural field we can work with.

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