China Intangible Cultural Heritage by City
Browse national and provincial intangible cultural heritage across 100 Chinese cities — skills, opera, folklore and more.
- Traditional Opera69
From kunqu to Peking opera — China's sung and staged storytelling
- Traditional Craftsmanship150
Ceramics, dyeing, architecture, tea craft — everyday ingenuity
- Folklore58
Festivals, temple fairs and rites of passage — living folk calendars
- Traditional Music63
From guqin elegies to Uyghur muqam — a millennial sonic heritage
- Traditional Arts78
Paper-cut, embroidery, new-year prints, thangka — folk image-making by hand
- Quyi (Folk Vocal Arts)29
Xiangsheng, pingtan and dagu — speech-and-song folk arts
- Traditional Sports & Acrobatics10
Taiji, Shaolin, Wudang, dragon boat — body-mind disciplines
- Traditional Medicine10
Acupuncture, Tibetan & Mongolian medicine, time-honored pharmacy culture
- Traditional Dance39
Yangge, dragon & lion dance, guozhuang, peacock dance — the body's folk language
- Folk Literature21
Three great epics and folk legends — oral storytelling