非物质文化遗产是指各种以非物质形态存在的,与民众生活密切相关、世代传承的传统文化表现形式,包括口头传统和表述、表演艺术、社会风俗、礼仪和节庆、有关自然界和宇宙的民间传统知识和实践、传统的手工艺技能等,以及与上述传统文化表现形式相关的文化空间。作为人类世代相承的各种传统文化表现形式和文化空间, The intangible cultural heritage refers to all kinds of traditional cultural expressions that exist in nonphysical form and are closely related to people’s lives and passed on from generation to generation. They include oral traditions and expressions, performing arts, social customs, etiquette and festivals, and natural and cosmic Traditional folk knowledge and practices, traditional handicraft skills, etc., as well as the cultural spaces associated with these traditional cultural expressions. As the various traditional cultural expressions and cultural spaces of the human race,