Browse the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices

The Committee meets annually to evaluate nominations proposed by States Parties to the 2003 Convention and decide whether or not to inscribe those cultural practices and expressions of intangible heritage on the Convention’s Lists.

By clicking on the inscribed elements below, you can discover the nominations, photos and videos, together with Committee decisions and evidence of community consent.

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2009⁹⁰

2009
List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
Ca trù singing	Viet Nam
Cantu in paghjella, a secular and liturgical oral tradition of Corsica	France
Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance	Mongolia
Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic	Mongolia
Qiang New Year festival	China
Rite of the Kalyady Tsars (Christmas Tsars)	Belarus
Sanké mon, collective fishing rite of the Sanké	Mali
Suiti cultural space	Latvia
Traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges	China
Traditional Li textile techniques: spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering	China
Traditional music of the Tsuur	Mongolia
Traditions and practices associated with the Kayas in the sacred forests of the Mijikenda	Kenya
Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Akiu no Taue Odori	Japan
Annual carnival bell ringers’ pageant from the Kastav area	Croatia
Art of Azerbaijani Ashiq	Azerbaijan
Art of Chinese seal engraving	China
Âşıklık (minstrelsy) tradition	Turkey
Aubusson tapestry	France
Busó festivities at Mohács: masked end-of-winter carnival custom	Hungary
Candombe and its socio-cultural space: a community practice	Uruguay
Carnaval de Negros y Blancos	Colombia
Chakkirako	Japan
Cheoyongmu	Republic of Korea
China engraved block printing technique	China
Chinese calligraphy	China
Chinese paper-cut	China
Chinese traditional architectural craftsmanship for timber-framed structures	China
Craftsmanship of Nanjing Yunjin brocade	China
Daimokutate	Japan
Dainichido Bugaku	Japan
Doina	Romania
Dragon Boat festival	China
Farmers’ dance of China’s Korean ethnic group	China
Festivity of Saint Blaise, the patron of Dubrovnik	Croatia
Gagaku	Japan
Ganggangsullae	Republic of Korea
Gesar epic tradition	China
Grand song of the Dong ethnic group	China
Hayachine Kagura	Japan
Hitachi Furyumono	Japan
Holy Week processions in Popayán	Colombia
Hua’er	China
Ijele masquerade	Nigeria
Indonesian Batik	Indonesia
Irrigators’ tribunals of the Spanish Mediterranean coast: the Council of Wise Men of the plain of Murcia and the Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia	Spain
Jeju Chilmeoridang Yeongdeunggut	Republic of Korea
Karagöz	Turkey
Katta Ashula	Uzbekistan
Koshikijima no Toshidon	Japan
Lacemaking in Croatia	Croatia
Lefkara laces or Lefkaritika	Cyprus
Maloya	France
Manas	China
Manden Charter, proclaimed in Kurukan Fuga	Mali
Mazu belief and customs	China
Mongolian art of singing, Khoomei	China
Namsadang Nori	Republic of Korea
Nanyin	China
Nestinarstvo, messages from the past: the Panagyr of Saints Constantine and Helena in the village of Bulgari	Bulgaria
Novruz, Nowrouz, Nooruz, Navruz, Nauroz, Nevruz	Azerbaijan – India – Iran (Islamic Republic of) – Kyrgyzstan – Pakistan – Turkey – Uzbekistan
Ojiya-chijimi, Echigo-jofu: techniques of making ramie fabric in Uonuma region, Niigata Prefecture	Japan
Oku-noto no Aenokoto	Japan
Places of memory and living traditions of the Otomí-Chichimecas people of Tolimán: the Peña de Bernal, guardian of a sacred territory	Mexico
Procession of the Holy Blood in Bruges	Belgium
Procession Za Krizen (‘following the cross’) on the island of Hvar	Croatia
Quan Họ Bắc Ninh folk songs	Viet Nam
Radif of Iranian music	Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Ramman, religious festival and ritual theatre of the Garhwal Himalayas, India	India
Regong arts	China
Ritual ceremony of the Voladores	Mexico
Scribing tradition in French timber framing	France
Septennial re-roofing ceremony of the Kamablon, sacred house of Kangaba	Mali
Sericulture and silk craftsmanship of China	China
Seto Leelo, Seto polyphonic singing tradition	Estonia
Spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani	Croatia
Tango	Argentina – Uruguay
Tibetan opera	China
Traditional Ainu dance	Japan
Traditional firing technology of Longquan celadon	China
Traditional handicrafts of making Xuan paper	China
Traditional manufacturing of children’s wooden toys in Hrvatsko Zagorje	Croatia
Two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale	Croatia
Whistled language of the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands), the Silbo Gomero	Spain
Xi’an wind and percussion ensemble	China
Yamahoko, the float ceremony of the Kyoto Gion festival	Japan
Yeongsanjae	Republic of Korea
Yueju opera	China
Best Safeguarding Practices
Centre for traditional culture – school museum of Pusol pedagogic project	Spain
Education and training in Indonesian Batik intangible cultural heritage for elementary, junior, senior, vocational school and polytechnic students, in collaboration with the Batik Museum in Pekalongan	Indonesia
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage of Aymara communities in Bolivia, Chile and Peru	Bolivia (Plurinational State of) – Chile – Peru