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The early autumn breeze in Beijing brings a gentle chill. Beijing Kerry Center, long known for its business, high-end, fashionable, and trendy ambiance, presents a different look. From September 2nd to 4th, Beijing Kerry Center partnered with Shenshan Market to present the "Always On Fair: A Nightless Kerry Market, Blooming Flowers in a Quiet Landscape" intangible cultural heritage night market. In the capital's most beautiful water curtain garden, the CBD will host a surprising feast of intangible cultural heritage, combining music, film, cultural and creative crafts, and cuisine, centered around the "Chinese Mountain Aesthetics." This event will bring traditional mountain culture into the commercial and international city, revitalizing it with a trendy, youthful expression. Walking into the most beautiful water curtain garden in Beijing’s CBD, the Chinese-style veil dances in the wind, and the CCTV headquarters building stands tall behind you. Towering skyscrapers resemble mountains in the city, only this "mountain" is more convenient, more open-minded, and more diverse. Handicrafts and local traditional cultural heritage from the deep mountains are rapidly gaining popularity here, becoming popular check-in spots, attracting crowds of young people to stop and admire, and rush to buy. Accompanied by live band performances and a dazzling array of handcrafting experiences and cultural and creative stalls, a series of engaging, engaging, and engaging interactive activities were presented. The outdoor area, divided into three zones, allowed visitors to relive the millennia-old market culture. With the rapid development of society, markets have gradually faded from people's horizons, slowly replaced by shopping malls and shopping centers. As people return to their daily lives, they often prefer to go to the market to "shop." Cultural and creative products and intangible cultural heritage works that reflect the cultural connotations of ethnic minority areas are particularly attractive.
Entering the indoor exhibition area, a strong sense of ethnic art is immediately apparent. The increasingly popular intangible cultural heritage not only carries China's traditional culture and historical memory, but also highlights the wisdom and artistic thinking of the Chinese working people. As traditional handicrafts are increasingly industrialized, more and more items in our lives are made by machines. While these products are becoming more standardized, there's always a sense of something missing. What's missing is nothing more than the time and effort poured into craftsmanship by the artisans—in other words, a sense of emotion. What is truly commendable is that in today's fast-paced modern society, where people strive for efficiency and progress, there are still some who cling to traditional craftsmanship. A single intangible cultural heritage handicraft may take days, months, or even years to create, while a machine-made piece can be completed in just days, hours, or even minutes. Yet, it is this daily, year-round craftsmanship that makes intangible cultural heritage truly intangible. Traditional culture may not arrive so quickly. We who are used to a fast-paced life should slow down and patiently appreciate a purely handmade intangible cultural heritage work. The protection and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage depends not only on experts and scholars, but also on young people who are willing to learn and understand. This kind of pure handmade leather embroidered bag is very popular in the mountain market. According to reports, each bag features a unique embroidery style, and this type of embroidery has a unique name: "horsetail embroidery." Horsetail embroidery is a unique embroidery technique passed down from generation to generation by Shui women, using horsetail as the primary raw material. It is a traditional folk craft known as a "living fossil" of embroidery. This unique Shui folk craft is found in Shui villages in Sandu, Zhonghe, Tingpai, Tangzhou, and Shuilong townships within Sandu. It is one of the oldest and most vibrant surviving primitive arts in Sandu Shui Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, and is considered a "living fossil" of embroidery. It is a valuable resource for studying Shui folklore, folk customs, totem worship, and ethnic culture. Horsetail embroidery is a complex technique, resulting in pieces with a bas-relief quality and abstract, abstract, and exaggerated forms. Because it can only be done by hand and cannot be replaced by machine embroidery, it is even more precious. Inside Kerry Center, we can see numerous intangible cultural heritage products from the Shenshan Market. Each large-scale creation is virtually one-of-a-kind. Even those mass-produced handmade pieces are meticulously crafted by inheritors of this intangible cultural heritage. Beijing Plush Bird is a general term for traditional handicrafts crafted from silk velvet, depicting flowers, birds, insects, plants, animals, and landscapes. Beijing Plush Bird production began in the early Qing Dynasty, boasting a history of over 300 years. Over the course of its development, it has gradually developed its own unique artistic style, fully showcasing the wisdom and exquisite craftsmanship of ancient working people. It has now been designated a national intangible cultural heritage preservation project by the Ministry of Culture.
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