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Calligraphy art
Calligraphy is one of the branches of fine art, it is also often called the art of beautiful writing. Calligraphers of Central Asia actively developed their craft and thus brought it to the level of art. There were even separate schools of calligraphy: Tashkent, Kokand, Khorezm, Samarkand and Bukhara. Each school had its own distinctive features, and experts could easily determine who wrote this or that inscription. Various styles of Arabic writing began to be used in architecture, carving and painting on ganch and wood. She was even present in the design of household utensils, clothing and other types of artistic creation. Among the most common writing styles are naskh, raikhani, rivo, suls, kufic and others.
Uzbekistan -
Pang A Peace Begging Ritual of the La Ha
The Pang A Peace Begging Ritual of the La Ha is a ritual to pray for peace, to thank the gods, and to thank the shaman for those who have been cured of illness (adopted children). The ceremony is held annually, in March of the solar calendar, when the Ban flowers and rice flowers are in full bloom, the rain has fallen and the bitter bamboo shoots have grown, or when the poinsettia flowers are in full bloom. In the Pang A Peace Begging Ritual, the Xang Bok tree is an indispensable decorative element, made from the hook tree and wild banana, placed in the middle of the house. The hook tree (lam la) symbolizes the black buffalo, the hook tree dies and turns into a black buffalo, the wild banana tree (lam toc) symbolizes the white buffalo, which are friends of farmers. On this occasion, adopted children from all over come to offer offerings to the gods, to repay the efforts of their adoptive fathers, to have fun together, and to exchange feelings. Depending on the family's conditions, the severity of the illness being cured, whether they are long-time or new adoptees, the adopted children prepare appropriate offerings. The scale of the Pang A Festival depends on each shaman. If the shaman is skilled, has many years of practice, and has many adopted children, the scale of the festival will be large. The rituals include: ancestral worship, worship for the homeowner's soul, worship to invite the gods to attend, worship to send the ancestors' souls to heaven, performing a performance describing a cured illness, plowing and harrowing... When the shaman finishes, his adopted children take turns placing the products they brought on the table for him to worship and invite the gods to come and receive blessings and bless his descendants with good health, good crops, and the growth of buffaloes, cows, pigs, chickens... Around the Xang Bok tree, there are scarf dances, sword dances, tang bu dances, rain-praying drum dances, penis dances (horns), con throwing competitions... The props for the dance include bu (bamboo tubes), cloth scarves, plows, harrows, swords, shields made of wood, bamboo... When the sound of the drums and gongs sounds, each person holds a piece of bamboo and starts dancing tang bu around the wooden board, they follow the rhythm of the drums, gongs and the rhythm of the bamboo tubes. After about 3-4 rounds, they howl together and then return, like that, the dance lasts about 1 hour. In the afternoon, the master continues to pray for his adopted children who come from far away and drink rice wine. The Pang A Peace Begging Ritual contains great humanistic values, with high educational value in the La Ha community in Muong La, Quynh Nhai, Thuan Chau districts, Son La province. The festival reminds descendants to remember the merits of the doctors who cured them of their illnesses, and reminds descendants to remember their roots.
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Teri Onderu - Traditional leather processing
Traditional leather processing and dyeing techniques are widely used in Shubarkuduk (Western Kazakhstan), which also hosts a school for teaching these techniques to young people. Leather utensils, serve as a 'refrigerator', which can withstand any changes in temperature. The freshness of kymyz (mare's milk) and shubat (camel milk) kept in such way. The tradition of leather craft, method of treatment passed down from generation to generation. Currently, the synthesis of professional creative activities and traditional motifs of the past is seen as the source of the revival of the classical tradition. These days, leather utensils fail to fulfill its utilitarian function, people mostly use it as a souvenir. Traditional technique of leather processing is used along with modern methods. The leather is used to produce men’s belts (kumys beldyk); hunting belt with accessories (kyseh beldyk with powder flask, pouch, fire striker, and sheath for a knife); women’s belt (belbeu); traditional footwear (yetyk, kebys, myasy); leather braided whip (khamshy), four, six and eight strand whip (used for horse riding); twelve and fourteen strand whip (used for protection from wolf attack); a quiver for arrows; a sheath for knives, swords, and sabers; leather shields. There are also leather vessels for mare’s milk: kauhar (flat vessel with narrow neck), torsykh (a vessel with rounded handles), mess (water skin), sabah (a large vessel tailored from goatskin). Traditional fur hats are widespread in Kazakhstan, namely tymakh and boryk with a lining made from fox, wolf, muskrat or mink fur and pushpakh tymakh made from fox paws; as well traditional men’s clothes (shapan and zharghakh) light coat made from light and soft suede and decorated with fine silk embroidery. Kazakh suede was one of the most valuable goods of the Silk Road and was traded as expensively as Chinese silk. One of the most common techniques used by Kazakh artisans is hot stamping on leather with metal plates called khalyp. Nowadays the national artistic traditions and new creative trends reflected in the works of modern masters and artists, where the ancient stamping technology has been preserved almost intact. . Embossing is made on soaked leather on the underside using special wooden plates with a desired carved design. Leather is clamped between two wooden plates and left to air-dry naturally. The design used for decorating leather is similar to the one used for making carpets. The central field filled with khoshkhar muyiz (sheep horn pattern) and khos myuiz (a cross-piece made of paired sheep horns). For the border, usually a plant design is used. The leather can be decorated with shaped metal plates with silver inlay. Embossed leather can be used for decorating wooden chests (zhaghlan). Along with embossing, incrustation with colored leather (kok saur), velvet and gold embroidery on leather is used.
Kazakhstan -
Traditional martial arts of Bình Định
The heritage originates from Bình Định - a place famous for traditional martial arts and famous historical figure King Quang Trung in the resistance war against foreign invaders. Binh Dinh traditional martial arts has many sects covering all provinces and cities across the country. This heritage has also been introduced abroad. Its practice became popular as a sport in many countries. Vo Bình Định has a high performance and combat ability, expressed in the forms of movement with bare hands, sticks, swords and spears, great knives, axes and shields. The combination of hand and stone techniques makes it a delicate, unique art form. The typical forms of Bình Định martial arts include Ngoc Tran Phap, Bach Dieu Thao Phap, Quyen Tu Hai, Thao Truc Chi, etc. Although it used to be a tool to fight foreign invaders, the people who do traditional martial arts in Bình Định always uphold the spirit of sport and its benefits to the lives of Vietnamese people.
Viet Nam
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Traditional martial arts of Bình Định
The heritage originates from Binh Dinh - a place famous for traditional martial arts and famous historical figure King Quang Trung in the resistance war against foreign invaders. Binh Dinh traditional martial arts has many sects covering all provinces and cities across the country. This heritage has also been introduced abroad. Its practice became popular as a sport in many countries. Vo Binh Dinh has a high performance and combat ability, expressed in the forms of movement with bare hands, sticks, swords and spears, great knives, axes and shields. The combination of hand and stone techniques makes it a delicate, unique art form. The typical forms of Binh Dinh martial arts include Ngoc Tran Phap, Bach Dieu Thao Phap, Quyen Tu Hai, Thao Truc Chi, etc. Although it used to be a tool to fight foreign invaders, the people who do traditional martial arts in Binh Dinh always uphold the spirit of sport and its benefits to the lives of Vietnamese people.
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Traditional martial arts of Bình Định
The heritage originates from Binh Dinh - a place famous for traditional martial arts and famous historical figure King Quang Trung in the resistance war against foreign invaders. Binh Dinh traditional martial arts has many sects covering all provinces and cities across the country. This heritage has also been introduced abroad. Its practice became popular as a sport in many countries. Vo Binh Dinh has a high performance and combat ability, expressed in the forms of movement with bare hands, sticks, swords and spears, great knives, axes and shields. The combination of hand and stone techniques makes it a delicate, unique art form. The typical forms of Binh Dinh martial arts include Ngoc Tran Phap, Bach Dieu Thao Phap, Quyen Tu Hai, Thao Truc Chi, etc. Although it used to be a tool to fight foreign invaders, the people who do traditional martial arts in Binh Dinh always uphold the spirit of sport and its benefits to the lives of Vietnamese people.
Viet Nam
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ICH Courier Vol.26 HEALING RITUALS AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
ICH Courier is the quarterly magazine on ICH in the Asia-Pacific region issued by ICHCAP since 2009. Every issue has its own theme under the title of the Windows to ICH, and the theme of the Vol 26 is 'HEALING RITUALS AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE.'
South Korea 2015 -
Building and Sharing Intangible Cultural Heritage Information
This report includes the presentation papers of the participants and a summary of the discussions that took place at the meeting. The general discussion topics for the three sections are Implementation of 2003 Convention and International Cooperation; Strengthening Collaborative Network through ICH Information Sharing; and Building Information Systems—Identification, Documentation, and Archives. The individual papers go into detail about building online systems for sharing ICH information, protecting intellectual property, maintaining and strengthening regional and sub-regional cooperation, and other related subjects.
South Korea 2012
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Indigenous and Other Ritual Specialists in the Philippines - Culture ChangeThe current topic of this conference is not very well studied in the Philippines. The word –shamanism- is regarded as an arbitrary umbrella-catch-all term for lack of something better because what it refers to in the Philippines is a far ranging set of practices, belief and value systems that are very specific. It is with some trepidation that these sets of practices, beliefs and value systems may not at all fit into the north-Asian concept of Shamanism, especially with reference to the structure and social organization. The latest local term used is –pagdidiwata – referring to the rituals invoking spiritual beings (diwata). The other terms used\nare bunung, baki, pagaanito, alisig, and many others depending on the culture of the some 80 different major ethno-linguistic groups in the country. Common to all is the belief in the existence of a spirit world to which the world of people should relate, through the medium of ritual specialists. There are differences, however, in the structure and social organization in the social behavior related to ethnic practice.Year2013NationPhilippines
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Myanmar ThaingMost countries or ethnic groups have a traditional martial art distinct in style and technique. In Myanmar, the traditional martial art is called Thaing, which is used to classify the indigenous martial systems of ancient Myanmar. Myanmar traditional martial arts have been well established for centuries and handed down through generations. The word “Thaing” in translation refers to the act of moving around in a circle, which also means “total fighting.” Thaing is not only an intangible cultural heritage of Myanmar but also a technique for self-defense, combat, and a traditional sport. More importantly, it is an art that demonstrates a strong nationalistic spirit, bravery, and holistic fitness. As a knowledge system, Thaing is protected and safeguarded by its masters.\nYear2020NationSouth Korea