Safeguarding Festivals Reflections on the Training Workshop for Young ICH Bearers

The Folklore Program at Beijing Normal University is participating in the new central government initiative "Workshop for Training Inheritance ofIntangible Cultural Heritage Bearers," a platform for ICH bearers to transmit traditional knowledge and skill to younger generations. This essay reflects on the experience of holding this workshop on the theme of "festival-ritual," which involved working with parties in the local village and government and promoting new models of transmitting traditions by training young bearers.