Awards and Conservation of Intangible Heritage

In 1804, Napoléon Bonaparte rewarded for the French “Honneur et Patrie”, which became the first modern awards institution affirming nations as the unit of selection and pride. Then such awards systems spread throughout the modernizing world and fostered the formation of world’s fairs, such as modern Olympics and UNESCO, which almost accepts all countries as its membership.

        Specific to the awards systems of intangibal heritage which promoted by UNESCO, on the one hand, it reaches the same action-orientied and strengthens people’s consensus to protect ICH, but on the other hand, for different countries and areas to implement the same awards way , could if really accomplish the potection aim? It is noteworthy that each country and area form the culture logic and mode in their-own histoy river, when the local culture rule meets the global culture awards, actually it’s difficulte to reach the expected aim. Today UNESCO carries out a series of awards ways all of the world, including “Masterpiece”, “Nominations”, “Medals”, “Living National Treasures” and “Heritage Funds”, in fact, when China operated these awards ways specifically, which led to the “culture crash” will usually make the counter result that awards really wants.

      As the Guizhou Miao ethnic group’s Yalu King Epic for a example , The paper will research the culture awards in the conservation of intagible heritage, emphasize the importance of the local culture logic and rule in intangible heritage awards, make sure the awrds could really protect the intangible heritage.