"We are now entering the 2020s, and a new term has appeared in my country's higher education, which is 'intangible cultural heritage'. This is an important cultural event and an important educational event." On the afternoon of April 28, in Tianjin Feng Jicai, a famous writer and professor of Tianjin University, said solemnly at the launching meeting of the university's "Intangible Cultural Heritage Series Textbooks" compilation.

Feng Jicai

In October last year, the country's first interdisciplinary master's degree program in intangible cultural heritage (degree program code 99F1) settled in Tianjin University. This conference is not only to start the compilation of textbooks for intangible cultural heritage, but also to disclose to the society the latest construction progress of the country's first interdisciplinary master's degree in intangible cultural heritage. It is reported that the first batch of textbooks for intangible cultural heritage include "General Theory of Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Tutorial of Folk Literature and Art", and "Tutorial of Inherited Population History". write.
"'Intangible cultural heritage' is a great and non-renewable historical wealth, but it is alive and its cultural essence needs to be passed on from generation to generation. Only discipline construction can achieve such a guarantee." Feng Jicai said, "I often think that we are in What we do is like building a edifice, and writing textbooks is also a brick, and we must put every brick in place, place it properly, place it firmly, and place it firmly, so that our edifice can be built.”

On the afternoon of April 28, the launch meeting for the compilation of "Intangible Cultural Heritage Series Textbooks" of Tianjin University was held.

Since the beginning of this century, the Chinese cultural and academic circles represented by Feng Jicai have initiated the "Chinese Folk Cultural Heritage Rescue Project", which has surveyed, sorted out and protected the vast intangible cultural heritage in China, and established the rapidly declining traditional villages. A batch of cultural archives. According to the "Guangming Daily" report, relevant data show that my country has established a national, provincial, municipal, and county-level directory system with Chinese characteristics, and has identified more than 100,000 representative items of intangible cultural heritage and national intangible cultural heritage. There are 1,557 heritage representative items; 6,819 traditional villages have been identified. But at the same time, another set of data is worrying: during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, the shortage of cultural heritage protection and management talents is as many as 100,000 people.

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On October 26 last year, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council issued a notice to approve the 2020 degree authorization self-examination unit to be added to the list of degree authorization points. The country’s first interdisciplinary master’s degree authorization point for intangible cultural heritage (degree point code 99F1) settled in Tianjin University . The official establishment of this discipline marks that my country's intangible cultural heritage personnel training has entered a new historical stage of high-level specialization, and also marks that the cause of intangible cultural heritage protection has entered a new stage of "scientific protection" from "rescue protection". .
According to the Feng Jicai Institute of Literature and Art of Tianjin University, intangible cultural heritage is a branch of cultural heritage research. As the research object and content, it is a blend of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.

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In Feng Jicai's view, three things in colleges and universities are crucial to cultivating intangible cultural heritage protection talents: one is the compilation of textbooks, the second is the establishment of training goals, and the third is the smooth way of employment.
As for the first thing - the compilation of textbooks, this meeting formally established the first batch of "Intangible Cultural Heritage Series Textbooks" editorial committee of Tianjin University. , Yuan Li, Gu Jun, Fang Ming, Tang Jialu and other 12 experts served as members of the editorial board. The compilation of the first batch of textbooks "General Theory of Intangible Cultural Heritage", "Tutorial of Folk Literature and Art", and "Tutorial of Inheriting Oral History" was officially launched. Pan Lusheng, Deputy Director of the Teaching Steering Committee, Dean and Professor of Shandong Academy of Arts and Crafts, Tang Jialu, Professor of Shandong Academy of Arts and Crafts and Director of China Folk Art Research Institute, and Guo Ping, Professor of Feng Jicai Literature and Art Research Institute of Tianjin University, served as the three volumes of textbooks respectively. Editor-in-Chief.
According to reports, the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Series" is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching work in intangible cultural heritage-related fields. Gaps in talent training. The Teaching and Research Department of Feng Jicai Literary and Art Research Institute of Tianjin University has set up a textbook editing room. The first three volumes of textbooks are planned to be completed within this year, and the lecture notes can be used in teaching in the new semester.

Feng Jicai (middle) entered the village in the rain to investigate the New Year pictures in Hua County, Henan

At the meeting, Feng Jicai once again clarified the significance of the intangible cultural heritage discipline setting for the development of national cultural undertakings and the cultivation of high-level talents in the field of intangible cultural heritage, and emphasized the important value of teaching materials to the discipline of intangible cultural heritage. In addition to the compilation of textbooks, he also proposed to find a unique education method for intangible cultural heritage disciplines, and at the same time pay attention to the combination of education and training goals - the so-called training goals, one is intangible cultural heritage research talents, and the other is intangible cultural heritage management talents.
"I hope that everyone will work together to do a good job in this discipline and career that is related to the destiny of our national culture." At the end of the meeting, Feng Jicai said such a sentence.