IPOH: Jalan Kamarudin Isa at Fair Park here will be closed to traffic to allow repair works to be conducted near the bridge following the land erosion incident there.
The lion dance could soon be on the Unesco cultural heritage list as China and Malaysia agree to nominate the famous dance. - Photo: The Star/ANN
The aim of the list from the UN’s heritage body is to help safeguard inherited traditions and living expressions across civilisations around the world, such as Chinese silk farming, Arabic calligraphy and Thailand’s “nora” dance. It is not the first time the two countries have worked together to protect a culturally important practice: in 2020 the Wangchuan ceremony, which involves rituals to maintain a sustainable connection between people and the ocean, was added to the Unesco list after a joint nomination by China and Malaysia.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim in Putrajaya, near Kuala Lumpur, on June 19. - Photo: EPA-EFE via SCMP “Since the 1990s, Malaysian Chinese have enjoyed increased opportunities for public expression of culture, of which lion dance is an important component ... teams forming important social networks in local communities, and helping to sustain the passing down of cultural heritage from one generation to the next,” Wilcox said.
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