Ecological response and environmental order of intangible cultural heritage in ethnic cultural and ecological protection area of Southeast Guizhou
The ecological environment serves as the core of intangible cultural heritage(ICH),providing vital resources for its preservation and transmission.While substantial research has been conducted,the environ-mental support behind intangible cultural heritage and the nurturing role of the habitat in the formation of ICH have not been thoroughly explored and understood.Research on the ecological response of ICH can furnish new insights and approaches for exploring cultural ecology,preserving the human-environment relationship,and clarifying socio-ecological networks.This study focuses on ethnic cultural and ecological protection area of Southeast Guizhou,leveraging geographic spatial analysis methods and linear diffusion continuity analysis to the integral role of ecological factors in supporting the preservation and development of ICH.The key find-ings are as follows:1)ICH distribution in Southeast Guizhou exhibits a preference for mountainous and aquat-ic environments,and the degree of ecological response differs among the various ICH within the three areas,revealing distinct sub-cultural-ecological systems within the broader region.2)The environmental dependence of ICH varies among different cultural types,with production,construction,medicine,manufacturing,and food and beverage brewing showing the most pronounced ecological dependence.Notably,Some folk customs may not directly depend on environmental elements.However,their indirect reliance on the environment becomes evident when considering their association with other ICHs that are environmentally dependent.Additionally,some folk activities inherently carry connotations of nature worship.3)ICH has a certain degree of ecological vulnerability.Biodiversity loss,soil erosion,water pollution,and climate change pose significant threats,par-ticularly for those directly depending on environmental and biological resources.4)Due to its ecological im-pact,ICH plays an instrumental role in constructing and maintaining local environmental order,as manifested by its promotion of cross-county,cross-altitude,and cross-terrain division of labor and cooperation,thereby positively bolstering ethnic exchanges.This suggests that the establishment of social order,division of labor,and societal norms cannot be decoupled from the maintenance of a foundational environmental order.ICH,therefore,serves as a mediator between environmental and social order.Given these insights,it becomes evid-ent that ICH protection should not isolate it from other cultural phenomena or simply regard it as an independ-ent commodity for packaging and development.Instead,it's essential to fully comprehend the"cultural-ecolo-gical-societal"network that revolves around ICH,further discern its degree of environmental dependence,and harness its environmental order function.Doing so will provide a solid scientific basis for promoting the con-struction of cultural and ecological protection areas.
ethnic cultural and ecological protection area of Southeast Guizhoumountain ethnic minorityecological responseenvironmental orderintangible cultural heritage
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