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I hope you will continue to innovate on the basis of what has succeeded in the past, and open up new horizons for literature
and art with masterpieces that reflect the times we live in.
——Excerpt from the fourth volumn of Xi Jinping：The Governance of China

希望广大文艺工作者坚持守正创新，用跟上时代的精品力作开拓文艺新境界。

——摘自《习近平谈治国理政》第四卷

Intangible cultural heritage successors in Dali

follow “national trend”

云南大理非遗传承人遇上“国潮”新理念

By Gong Chutong and Yang Xi □ 龚楚童 杨茜 / 文

In Yunnan Province, the Bai people interested in the uniquely shaped tile “My tile cats are especially popular in
used to place a tile cat in the middle of the cats. Therefore, he borrowed Jianchuan- Xizhou,” she said. Now, Zhang’s tile
ridge of their dwelling to dispel evil spirits. style wood carving skills and produced cats are priced at 60 to 360 yuan, and
In recent years, with the efforts of younger a batch of cute-looking wooden tile cats, she sells more than 1,000 of them
intangible cultural heritage successors which were well received on the market. every year.
in Dali, Yunnan, tile cats as a cultural To date, Dong has cumulatively sold more
symbol have been combined with various than 10,000 tile cats of various sized and
intangible cultural heritage skills. Once different designs.
believed to have an evil-dispelling effect, Not just tourists, some local craftsmen
tile cats have assumed an aesthetic instead. also bought the black pottery tile
On the Chinese Internet, “national cats. Zhang Sidai, a prefectural-level
trend” is defined as a trend of designing representative successor of the Bai people’s
products with typical Chinese cultural cloth tying skills, learned to make cloth-tied
elements. A few years ago, many intangible articles since childhood and soon mastered
cultural heritage successors in Yunnan still all cloth-tying skills. Based on traditional
lacked a deep understanding of the “national cloth-tied articles, Zhang have innovatively
trend” design style and products. developed many new cloth-tied products.
Dong Zhiming, now a prefectural-level In 2017, Zhang bought a black pottery
representative successor of the Jianchuan tile cat in Jianchuan and showed strong
Bai people’s pottery making techniques, interest in it. “It occurred to me that I might
was born into a pottery family 38 years as well make cloth-tied tile cats. In 2018,
ago. After graduating from junior high after many attempts, I produced my first
school, he began to learn black pottery cloth-tied tile cat,” Zhang recalled. Using
from his father Dong Yuechang. In the past, brightly colored rags, Zhang went on to
black pottery was mainly used to make make more colorful tile cats.
vessels such as jars and flower pots. With In 2018, Zhang participated in the
the changes of time, however, the sales of Jianchuan Craftsmanship Competition with
traditional pottery vessels declined year by some of her cloth-tied tile cats. Ever since
year. then, Zhang has entered various exhibitions
During his interaction with tourists, with her cloth-tied works, which received
Dong noticed that many of them were increasingly positive market responses.