China-Malaysia’s “Farewell Ceremony for the King” joint application for heritage successfully!
On the evening of December 17, 2020, Beijing time, China and Malaysia jointly filed the “Farewell Ceremony for the King and Related Practices Concerning the Sustainable Connection between People and the Ocean”. Representative list of tangible cultural heritage. This is China’s first project successfully declared jointly with countries along the “Belt and Road”, and it is also the first “Representative List of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage” project to be successfully declared mainly in Xiamen, Fujian.
The “Farewell Ceremony for the King” originated from the custom of ancestors in the southern coast of Fujian setting small boats and colored boats for the “disaster of the boat”. It was later combined with the faith of the prince and the Taoist ritual “Haijiao” and gradually e...