Acupuncture and Peking Opera listed as Intangible Cultural Heritage
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The UN Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has approved the inclusion of Peking Opera, acupuncture and moxibustion on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Xinhua News Agency reported Wednesday.
The nominations were approved by the 24-state-composed intergovernmental committee of UNESCO during a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.
A total of 47 nominations were presented by 29 countries this year, and 46 of them have been added to the list.
The latest additions mean that China now has 28 traditions included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and 6 in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding – the most of any country.
The items from China that were inscribed in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding on Monday are the technology behind the construction of watertight bulkheads of traditional Chinese junks, wooden movable-type printing, from China's Zhejiang province – and a Uyghur cultural festival known as "meshrep" from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
UNESCO also said that this is the first time that the intergovernmental committee for Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage is holding its meeting in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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