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| CULTURE-GENE IDENTIFICATION OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR RUCHENG COUNTY OF CHINA: A CASE STUDY OF FIERY DRAGON |
| HU Zui1,2,3, LIU Pei-lin1, DENG Yun-yuan1, ZHENG Wen-wu1,2,3, QIU Hai-hong4 |
1. Cooperative Innovation Centre for Digitalization of Cultural Heritage in Ancient Villages and Town, Hengyang 421002, China;
2. Key Laboratory of Digital Protective Technologies & Application of Settlements'Cultural Heritage of Hunan Province, Hengyang 421002, China;
3. Department of Resources and Environment & Tourism Management, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421002, China;
4. Department of Physical Sciences, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421002, China |
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Abstract This paper tries to extract/identify the culture-genes of intangible cultural heritages according to the Theory of Traditional Settlement Gene (TTSG). With invoking of the basic notions or methodologies of TTSG, this paper takes Fiery Dragon of Rucheng County which is the typical Hakka custom as a case of study. This report has to deal with some difficulties which exist in the theories and methods. And the first and foremost is how to identify the classical culture features (or cultural genes) from the ample intangible heritages in part due to foundation of TTSG is the traditional settlements but not intangible culture heritages. Fortunately, based on the former related researches, the author firstly presents three methods in order to identify the cultural genes of the intangible heritages, which are Analysis and Comparison Method (ACM), Materials Recording Method (MRM) and Investigation Method (IM), respectively. Founded on the aforementioned theoretical results, this paper finds that we can extract the cultural genes from the intangible culture heritages with the following four approaches, such as heritage carriers, representation ways, religious or cultural believes as well as image features. With the former notion, this paper constructs a systematic framework which is composed of 15 indices in order to identify the cultural genes of the intangible heritages. At last, the author collects a lots of background materials about the Fiery Dragon of Rucheng County.
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Received: 09 February 2014
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2015, Vol. 30 
