A nine minute documentary video held in UNESCO's own Multimedia Archives, produced to accompany China's successful 2009 nomination of "Mazu belief and customs" to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. UNESCO's own description names Mazu outright as "the most influential goddess of the sea in China," documenting the beliefs and customs, oral traditions, religious ceremonies and folk practices that surround her worship in China's coastal regions, including annual temple fairs at which residents suspend their ordinary work to venerate her statue and enjoy ceremonial performances, and smaller year round worship involving floral tributes, incense and evening lantern processions.
Facts
Production
Release Year DirectorProduced for UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination process, China 1 Subject Matter
Religious Subject MatterMazu, the Chinese folk goddess of the sea, and the beliefs and customs surrounding her worship in coastal China: named outright by UNESCO's own item description as this video's subject. 1 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
UNESCO's own multimedia item description names Mazu and the beliefs, customs and folk practices of Chinese coastal communities outright as this video's subject, a second screen work the atlas now holds for the tradition.
Source UNESCO, "Mazu Belief and Customs," Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2009
Depicts
Mazu, Deities UNESCO's own item description names Mazu outright as this video's subject.
Source UNESCO, "Mazu Belief and Customs," Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2009
Sources
1. UNESCO, "Mazu Belief and Customs," Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, 2009
UNESCO, 2009- unesco.org/archives/multimedia/document-334; ich.unesco.org/en/RL/mazu-belief-and-customs-00227
- Depicts: Mazu, unesco.org/archives/multimedia/document-334
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