Lishui Culture · Lishui District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

The crafts and customs of Lishui, recorded one entry at a time

From the Luoshan Great Dragon to the Putang Bridge temple fair; from paper-cutting and iron painting to the poems in the old gazetteers. Every entry states its category, level and guardian unit, records its sources, and appears in Chinese and English.

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Dragon and Lantern Dancewudao Dragon lanterns, horse lanterns and dragon boats — traditional dance items, mostly seen at the New Year and at temple fairs. 8 entries Browse all Traditional Craftsjiyi Food making, bamboo weaving, iron painting and other crafts transmitted by hand. 13 entries Browse all Traditional Fine Artsmeishu Paper-cutting, wood carving, flower arrangement and enamel work — items known for form and pattern. 5 entries Browse all Folk Customs and Temple Fairsminsu Temple fairs, shehuo and seasonal observances — customs held on fixed days of the year. 4 entries Browse all Medicine, Songs and Legendsyiyao Traditional medicine, folk songs and folk literature — the smaller categories. 3 entries Browse all Cultural Spaceskongjian Villages, mountains, waterways, academies and inscriptions — the places heritage attaches to. 9 entries Browse all Poetry and Documentswenxian Entries written here: dialect, poetry, old gazetteers and the heritage lists. 10 entries Browse all

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Intangible Heritage Representative items of intangible cultural heritage in Lishui District. Each states its category, level, listing batch and guardian unit; level and batch follow the official lists, and anything the lists do not give is left to be filled in. 33 entries Browse all Cultural Spaces The villages, mountains, waterways and old seats of learning that heritage attaches to. Where a protection level is given, its listing is given with it; where the listing is unverified, the entry says so. 9 entries Browse all Poetry and Documents Entries written here: the two accounts of the dialect boundary, the documentary basis of poems, the punctuation of an old gazetteer, and a survey of the heritage lists. Quotations carry juan and page; tradition and record are kept apart. 10 entries Browse all

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Poetry and Documents A Survey of Lishui's Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists The national, provincial, municipal and district lists, and the figures for each date Lishui has one national ICH item and 17 provincial or municipal ones as of November 2023, while district-level totals and bearer counts differ between two reported dates. This survey sets out the four tiers, the third batch and the fourth-batch public notice. intangible cultural heritageICH safeguardingDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Poetry and Documents A Textual Study of Li Bai's "On the Road from Lishui" The gazetteer record and the doubt over what Lishui refers to The Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer, juan 11, lists "Three Poems Mourning Wang Yan on the Road from Lishui" under Li Bai; a scenic-area page says he left poems in Lishui. Whether Lishui means Nanjing's Lishui or a waterway near Liyang is left undecided. Poetry and proseDocumentsTang dynasty Confidence: Unconfirmedunchecked Standard Poetry and Documents Bai Juyi and His Lishui Connection Seeking out his uncle Bai Jikang, then county magistrate Bai Juyi went to Lishui to seek out his uncle Bai Jikang, then serving as county magistrate, and Bai Jikang died in office there. Bai Jikang's years in the post could not be verified and are not supplied here. Notable figuresPoetry and proseTang dynasty Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard District level Traditional Crafts Bamboo Weaving A bamboo craft on the third-batch district ICH list Bamboo Weaving is on the third-batch district ICH list and is one of three examples cited in the body of the third-batch notice; the notice body and the appendix give different totals for the batch. intangible cultural heritageTraditional craftHandicraft Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard District level Folk Customs and Temple Fairs Black Rice Festival A seasonal folk-custom item of Hefeng Town Black Rice Festival is a folk-custom item of Hefeng Town, Lishui District, included in the recommended list of the district's fourth-batch ICH public notice of January 2024; its date and ritual sequence remain to be established. intangible cultural heritageFolk customFestivals Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard District level Traditional Fine Arts Cloisonné Enamel Craft A traditional fine-art item submitted by Yongyang Subdistrict Cloisonné Enamel Craft is a traditional fine-art item submitted by Yongyang Subdistrict, Lishui District, included in the district's fourth-batch ICH public notice of January 2024, which also names Zhang Juhua as a bearer. intangible cultural heritageTraditional fine artHandicraft Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard

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