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#Nansha# | 19 young participants from 13 countries gathered in #Guangzhou’s# Nansha District for a summer study tour exploring Xiajiaquan – a #Lingnan# martial art on the intangible cultural heritage list. 🏯✨ Guided by a master inheritor, they trained alongside local practitioners, broke cultural barriers, and gained deep appreciation for this ancient tradition. Nansha is keeping heritage alive – and the world is taking notice! 🌏💪 #Guangdong# #Xiajiaquan# #LingnanMartialArts# #IntangibleCulturalHeritage# #CulturalExchange# #KungFu# #TraditionalMartialArts# #ChinaCulture# #StudyTour#

The Vatican has declared a formal schism with the Society of St. Pius X, excommunicating its bishops and priests in a sweeping crackdown on a traditionalist group that has vexed the Holy See for decades.

They said you couldn’t embroider on coarse linen. This 1000-year-old craft proves otherwise. Xiabu Embroidery from Xinyu, Jiangxi, China, dates back to the Northern Song Dynasty. Rough ramie fabric meets glossy silk threads, making for living ink-wash masterpieces. #节日里的江西# #TraditionalCraft# #ChineseArt# #Embroidery# #Jiangxi# #JiangxiCulture# #China# #IntangibleHeritage#

The Mongols reportedly killed the last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad, al-Musta'sim, by wrapping him in a carpet and having horses trample him instead of directly shedding his blood. The method was supposedly chosen because royal blood was considered sacred. This is a perfect example of the ridiculousness of religious and/or traditionalist dogma. Ignore the spirit of its law by exploiting the letter of that law.

The Democrats’ newest argument against the SAVE America Act doesn’t make ANY SENSE! Senator Elissa Slotkin stood at a podium and bragged that her party blocked the Act because it would “disenfranchise all married women” — because you’d have to show a birth certificate at the polls if you took your husband’s name. Um… just a thought. Who is more likely to take her husband’s name: a churchgoing, traditionalist, conservative woman or a liberal blue haired feminist? I don’t even think I have to answer that one. Why would the Republicans pass a bill that would disenfranchise more of THEIR voters than the Democrats? Unless… maybe, what the Democrats are really worried about is losing ILLEGAL voters. You CANNOT say a citizenship check ends your party and in the same breath swear your party is full of citizens. The whole ordinary machinery of American life runs on proving who you are: buying medicines behind the pharmacy counter, boarding a plane, renting a car, cashing a check, signing for a package. They all require ID. And married women who took their husband’s name can still do all of them. So, why is it that the ONE act reserved for citizens alone, the one the Republic rests on, is the only one we’re told should run on the honor system? These are the same people who spent four years telling you Trump and Russia stole the 2016 election. “RIGGED!” Why aren’t they the first ones in line to pass something that would make any kind of rigging harder? The only people who fear a verified election are the ones counting on an unverified one. I want the same thing for your ballot that the pharmacist wants for a box of Sudafed: proof you’re allowed to have it. And this isn’t some novel idea. We used to do this. I visited the Smithsonian recently and saw a glass ballot box from the 1800s. At the time, there was a big ballot stuffing scandal. So, Americans invented clear ballot boxes so you could actually see that the ballots cast were the ballots counted. That’s all we’re asking for here: transparency. It’s not that hard.

👍Recently, in Longpu Village, Nyingchi, #Xizang# Autonomous Region, Zhenna, a representative inheritor of the regional intangible cultural heritage red clay pottery firing technique, is shaping a pot by hand. Longpu Village is a settlement of the Nu ethnic group along the Yunnan-Xizang Highway. The traditional red clay pottery craft has been passed down for generations and boasts a history of at least one hundred years. #IntangibleCulturalHeritage# #TraditionalCraft# #XizangCulture#