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Tickets
Venue
Shenzhen Museum, Futian District (福田区深圳博物馆)
Metro
Line 2 or 4 to Civic Center Station (市民中心站), Exit B
Shenzhen Museum to host intangible cultural heritage festival
To mark China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, which falls on the second Saturday of June every year, the Shenzhen Museum will launch a shopping festival at 2:30 p.m. this Saturday to promote intangible cultural heritage products.
Several Chinese intangible cultural heritages – Cantonese dim sum, Nan'ao zongzi stuffed with sea urchin, Chaozhou color porcelain, Beijing opera mask painting, micro-carving, Manchu embroidery and silk stocking milk tea – will be featured in the festival to held at the museum and be live-streamed on apps. A variety of quality handicrafts will also be on sale.
Nan'ao zongzis stuffed with sea urchin
Chaozhou color porcelains
Locals can visit the festival at the Shenzhen Museum by booking on the museum's WeChat account "iszbwg" or watch it on the Yizhibo app (search keyword "深圳博物馆"), the Douyin app (search keyword "深圳非遗"), or the WeChat account "深圳市非遗保护中心."
The event is among China's continuous efforts to enhance intangible cultural heritage protection and raise the public awareness of safeguarding China's intangible cultural heritage. This year, the initiative also marks one of the latest steps to blunt the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy.
Silk stocking milk tea is a tea drink made from black tea and milk, usually a part of lunch or afternoon snack in Cantonese fast-food restaurants. The key feature of silk stocking milk tea is that a sackcloth bag is used to filter the tea leaves. The bag, reputed to make the tea smoother, gradually develops an intense brown color as a result of prolonged tea drenching. Together with the shape of the filter, it resembles a silk stocking, giving the milk tea its nickname.
Manchu embroidery, made of a peculiar silk in North China, has a unique triangular stitching style. It appears like a colorful painting when you look from afar but when you step closer, you can see magnificent stitches in delicate patterns.
Venue: Shenzhen Museum, Futian District (福田区深圳博物馆)
Metro: Line 2 or 4 to Civic Center Station (市民中心站), Exit B