ISTANBUL, Dec 7 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Turkish and Chinese inheritors gathered in Istanbul on Friday, for an exchange and display of each other’s intangible cultural heritage items.
Addressing the event, hosted by the Information Office of Sichuan Provincial People’s Government of China, Zhou Qing, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Sichuan provincial committee and head of Sichuan Press and Publication Bureau, said, the intangible cultural heritage exchange was held to make the heritage items go beyond the limit of languages, nations, cultures and territories, and resonate with the Turkish and Chinese peoples, so as to further promote exchanges and mutual learning between the cultures.
Among those on display at the event were Sichuan embroidery and silk brocade, Chengdu lacquerware, woven bamboo wares with porcelain bodies inside, paper cutting, thangka painting and Nanping pipa, a traditional Chinese musical instrument.
For their part, the Turkish artists put on show, among others, Turkish art of marbling, or Ebru, wooden relief carving, kazaziye, filigree, point lace and paper cutting.
Hatice Adiyaman, a Turkish artist, said, wooden relief carving is “now close to being extinct.”
“I’m doing everything possible to ensure that this branch of art lives and is passed on to future generations,” she said.
Yusuf Kochan, deputy chairman of the municipal council of Maltepe district, where the exchange was held, spoke of culture as “the most important factor in the development of relations between two countries.”
“The rapprochement of the peoples of two countries expands cooperation in many areas,” he said, at the event. “The women of the two countries gathered here today to further contribute to the good relations between Turkey and China.”– NNN-ANADOLU