Excellent traditional Chinese culture, and even the theme of intangible cultural heritage, in fact, in the online articles I have created in the past three years, it can be said that there are three inseparable sentences. I want to write a book specifically for intangible cultural heritage, but I have been troubled by the limitations of personal writing, the lack of traffic, the lack of communication value, and the power of one person, which makes people look like a vassal elegance.

It has been nearly four years since I started to pay close attention to intangible cultural heritage, and more than a year since I visited the site, and in the first half of the year, I also mentioned to the editor that I wanted to completely focus on intangible cultural heritage, but due to the above troubles, it has been delayed until now.

On the day of the start of the essay competition, I didn't see it myself, because I was still chatting with the editor during the day about a few of my ideas that I hadn't even written an outline, and talked about which one would be appropriate if I wanted to write about intangible cultural heritage. So as soon as my friend saw it, he hurriedly sent it to me, saying: You see you were talking about this a while ago, and you just hit the muzzle of your gun.

When I saw this essay, it was two very straightforward feelings: one was moved that I wrote this intangible cultural heritage may not have been purely for love, after all, in the past two years, it has cost parents a lot of money for travel fees, buying for reference, etc., and the other is that I have been distressed that I can't do it alone, and there is a development that I can't even imagine.

After all, the audience of this kind of article is really relatively small, and I write dozens of articles, even if it is supported by the platform. It may still be the same as sinking into the sea, there is no repercussion. Or maybe it really attracts a lot of big looks, but even if I don't do it in my studies, I only code words and visit intangible cultural heritage, how many intangible cultural heritage can I write in a year? It's just a drop in the bucket.

Now, for love or for essays, as long as you start, I think everyone will fall in love with these intangible cultural heritage.

China Literature's essays have always been very positive, from realistic themes over the years, to war epidemics, pomegranate cups, oracle bones, and sports in major countries...... and then to today's intangible cultural heritage. It is true that any enterprise is aimed at making profits, but if you dare to invest money to do things that cannot guarantee returns, the merit lies in the present and the benefits are in the future.

What is difficult to do on one's own, if thousands of stars shine together, it will shine on my China!

Before talking about Hang Luo and this book, I would like to talk to all of you who have read this book about intangible cultural heritage, about the protection of intangible cultural heritage, and about me and intangible cultural heritage.

'Intangible cultural heritage' is actually defined by UNESCO as its vocabulary and its direction, or rather, it was not a word in ancient times.

The reason why heritage is a heritage is precisely because of the 'historical time' it spans, the 5,000-year history of Chinese civilization, the wisdom of the Chinese, and naturally a huge amount of cultural heritage has also been left behind for this land.

Even if it is now divided into world-class, national, provincial, municipal, and district-level levels, it is still impossible to exhaustively cover all the intangible cultural heritage in the land of Kyushu.

A few years ago, in 2018, when I was less than 15 years old, I had an opportunity to work with a friend on a topic related to the current situation and promotion of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and it was at that time that I began to pay special attention to the word "intangible cultural heritage" and began to understand China's intangible cultural heritage in more detail.

At that time, the official website of the national intangible cultural heritage only updated some activity trends sporadically, and the relevant research we could find was basically ten years ago. Combined with the understanding of the classmates around me, I suddenly felt 'boom': it's over, the country is supporting, and it's still in such a state, what can I do......

I went to see the Dongcheng Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, and found that basically no one patronized it, so I went to send out questionnaires, and got various survey results such as 'no time', 'I don't know', and 'I spent a lot of money', and finally wrote a research report of more than 10,000 words, thinking that it was quite perfect......

Thinking about it now, whether it is the inheritance of folk customs or the restoration of skills, it is not overnight, and short-term stagnation is a normal phenomenon, and the behavior and research results of that year are indeed reckless, one-sided, and naïve.

However, I did realize in this way that people have a one-sided understanding of intangible cultural heritage, and many people may think that intangible cultural heritage only includes the part of 'skills', but they do not know that folklore, sports and acrobatics and other categories also belong to intangible cultural heritage...... For the protection, inheritance and promotion of intangible cultural heritage, it is still a road that has to go for a long time, and you can only see the glory in the distance, but you can't see the end.

When I started to create online articles (2019), I was trying to integrate Chinese culture into my online writing, and if there are people who have been chasing my books, they should have discovered this.

Until 2020, when China Literature, People's Daily and China Zhongfu Publishing House solicited essays on children's literature, I chose the '24 solar terms' as an intangible cultural heritage.

It is precisely for this reason that I have become more and more determined to use literary creation to spread Chinese culture and intangible cultural heritage.

In the past two years, due to some special reasons personally, I have also been in a relatively idle state, and I have time to appreciate the beauty of intangible cultural heritage on the spot. It's a pity that because of the epidemic, so far, I may only have a superficial understanding of the intangible cultural heritage under twenty or thirty categories of skills and folk art, and more of them are still waiting for an opportunity to meet in my follow-up visit plan.

Going back to the intangible cultural heritage itself, let's talk about Hangluo, and why I started writing from Hangluo.

Intangible cultural heritage, which is different from tangible cultural heritage, is more "people-oriented". Tracing back to Chinese history, the Song Dynasty should be regarded as a turning point in the understanding of the value of 'people'.

When it comes to the cultural inheritance value of the Song Dynasty, we have to mention the 'Song Yun culture' proposed in recent years, and Hangluo, as an important economic source for the people in Lin'an City, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, is an inseparable part of it.

Hangluo is the Luo of 'Silk Silk', part of the Silk Road. It is the development of folk handicrafts, silk weaving culture, the truth-seeking and pragmatic of working people, and even a world business card of Chinese culture, which is its value for history and culture, and also its value for the development of people's livelihood.

Hangluo is directly related to 'clothing, food, housing and transportation'. In the past, Hangluo may have been something that only high-ranking officials and nobles were qualified to wear and could afford, but now, it is something that well-off families can afford to buy and wear, society is developing, and intangible cultural heritage is also 'flying into the homes of ordinary people' step by step.

Of course, whether it is the historical value, humanistic value, or economic value of Hangluo, historians should know more complete than me, and what I really want to do is to let everyone understand the beauty of Hangluo in the form of stories.

Although I said a lot about the value of Hangluo, or borrowed the factor of 'Song Yun culture', I really chose Hangluo as the first book of pure intangible cultural heritage stories, in fact, there are other reasons.

As mentioned earlier, there are only a few dozen intangible cultural heritage that I have actually learned about on the ground, and compared with the vast 3,000 stars of national intangible cultural heritage, it is only one hundred.

I wanted to take off the brilliance of these 3,000 stars one by one, put them in the article, and write a long article of millions of words, but the project is so huge that I can only slowly draw it. And a short story of 200,000 or 300,000 words, or a medium-length online article of about 500,000 words, I can still cope with it.

I also mentioned earlier, in fact, I have a wide range of topics, how to choose, why start from Hangluo, I have to mention the double shock that Hangluo brings to my vision and hearing.

At first, I learned that Fuxing Silk Factory is the only one that still has mastered the weaving skills of Hangluo, and I felt 'groan' in my heart, this is 'Luo', and the word 'Silk Silk' is well known, but now the weaving of 'Luo' has reached such a point?

When I entered the factory, my first feeling was 'noisy'. The rumbling sound of the loom is obviously very different from the 'zaza machine stick' in the textbook. But the sound of the loom smashed directly into my heart.

When I came back from the shock, my second feeling was 'hot', in Hangzhou in the summer, it was still a sunny day, there was no air conditioning, the factory was stuffy and tight, and even felt a few degrees higher than the outside of the factory!

After a few conversations, I learned a lot of stories about Hangluo, and even learned that if it weren't for the 'luck' of metaphysics, I could 'see', 'read', and 'enjoy' this treasure today.

So that I was busy 'please' home dozens of meters of Hengluo and ingots pattern flower silk, at this time I still just sighed at the beauty of Hangluo, the length of the rhyme, for some stories, still hold the mentality of 'listening to the story'.

Seeing the ready-to-wear there, listening to Grandma Hong say her favorite Hangluo clothes, and even hearing that Uncle Zhang, the latest generation inheritor, changed his opinion of Hangluo, just because of a dress made by Hangluo, that feeling is far less than the moment when I really wore Hangluo on my body, my understanding of the beauty of Hangluo.

The sentence 'We can't call the craftsmanship broken in our hands', the seemingly unrealistic story, the stitch and thread of time, have become a thousand years of culture worn on the body, simple but full of light.

I have said enough, but I would like you to feel the world-class intangible cultural heritage of Hangluo, which is limited by my clumsy writing and ink and cannot bloom in this book, in the dream of the heroine through thousands of years, and in a shuttle line.

Ci Liansheng

19 September 2022

Yu Jing