Schools introduce intangible cultural heritage to students in Anyang, central China's Henan

A folk artist named Dong Huanjiao teaches students how to make paper cutting works at the Gangsanlu Primary School in Yindu district, Anyang city of central China's Henan Province. (Photo/Wang Fuqiang)

Students of Gangsanlu Primary School in Yindu district, Anyang city of central China's Henan Province were given a class on paper cutting by a folk artist on Aug. 30, the day when the new semester started at the school.

On the same day, students at the Lyucunji Primary School in Lyucun township, Anyang city learned to play the Lyucun drum, a provincial-level kind of intangible cultural heritage in Henan Province.

In recent years, Anyang city has actively promoted intangible cultural heritage at schools by inviting intangible cultural heritage inheritors to give lectures to students.