Now intangible culture is slowly disappearing, such as shadow play and striking while the iron is hot. What can we do?

Intangible cultural heritage is gradually disappearing, which is an objective fact and an irreversible and inevitable trend. In today's society, those traditional cultures are just learned from the past, and those learned from the present do not follow these cultural elements deliberately, and the country does not have much strength to advocate our traditional culture in this respect.

Non-legacy maintenance, since there is a maintenance request, it is obviously difficult to have a good inheritance. In addition to the ideological problems of the older generation, people nowadays are not interested in this kind of culture and pay too little attention to it, which also leads to the inability to promote traditional culture such as shadow play on a large scale.

The main reason for this situation is that there are no successors, and most young people are unwilling to engage in these industries.

The so-called intangible cultural heritage was originally just the skill of artisans in the old society to support their families. To put it bluntly, it is the skill of eating. With the development of the period, new technologies and new products emerge one after another, and many old things will definitely be squeezed out of the market and eliminated. For example, with airplanes, high-speed trains and cars, how many people still take carriages? For another example, the former paperhanger has long been replaced by the decoration company. The same is true of the shadow play mentioned by the subject. Now there are TV dramas, comics, Tik Tok ... Who will watch shadow play, unless it is in a tourist attraction, which is very novel.

There is no market for intangible cultural heritage, and it is impossible for practitioners to live a dignified life. Naturally, there will be no successor. Young people need to buy a house and a car to support their families, and have no obligation to inherit intangible cultural heritage on an empty stomach.

China has a history of thousands of years, and has invented countless cultures, but at the same time it has destroyed many cultures. For example, the epigraph of Song Ci was popular in those days, but now it is only heard by its name but not by its sound. On the contrary, if there is a market, strange things can spread, such as reading feng shui fortune-telling, and they are all high-income.

Faced with the gradual disappearance of intangible cultural heritage, we don't have to hate it, let alone forcibly carry it forward, but let nature take its course. Generation after generation of culture, this is the law of human progress and the price that must be paid. Of course, for the purpose of discussion, the government and NGOs should record the details of these cultural heritages as soon as possible. For example, making videos, collecting archives, preserving their complete contents and sending them to museums as the memory of our culture.