Chapter 822 Criteria for World Heritage Application
Hot searches on the Internet are nothing new to Li Yi. After taking a look at them, he continued to eat pastries.
After he finished eating the pastries, the opening ceremony of the conference began.
This is the third time that the country has hosted the World Heritage Conference. It is also the highest-level international conference hosted by the country in the field of cultural and natural heritage protection, so it is quite a scene.
Not only did many leaders come, but many exciting programs were also prepared to welcome representatives from various countries.
Li Yi was very happy to see it and had a certain understanding of the agenda of the upcoming conference.
The conference will last for 15 days. During these 15 days, the committee will review the projects submitted by representatives from various countries.
Projects that pass the review will be included in the World Heritage List.
In addition, the committee will also review the report on the protection status of World Heritage and provide special protection for endangered heritage.
At the same time, the Committee will also inform on the management of the World Heritage Fund and review applications for assistance from some countries to protect heritage.
However, in these 15 days, the review of the project for World Heritage application is absolutely the most important, and it will take 10 days.
The applications for the Neon Guo Yun Brocade and the Hua Guo Jinling Yun Brocade are both listed for review tomorrow, which is the first day of the conference.
After the conference, the organizers invited representatives from various countries to have a meal in the banquet hall.
Li Yi moved with the large troops. When he arrived at the place, he took care of himself and picked up the food on the plate.
This banquet was in the form of a buffet. In addition to the traditional famous dishes of Jinling cuisine, there were also many innovative dishes that were combined with foreign food cultures.
Li Yi’s main interest lies in these innovative dishes, and he tries a little bit of each.
Curry chicken with a lot of curry, hand-rolled noodles mixed with pesto sauce made with basil leaves and pine nuts, and beef stewed with herbs from Madagascar... The taste of these fusion dishes made Li Yidu feel quite rewarding.
While he was tasting, the two chefs from the back kitchen came to the banquet hall, found Li Yi, greeted him politely, and expressed the hope that Li Yi could give some advice.
This is their home turf, so Li Yi would naturally not be unreasonable and picky. He just said that the taste was very good and he couldn't find anything wrong with it.
But the two chefs didn’t believe it and wanted Li Yi to comment on it to see where there was room for improvement.
Since "Chinese Restaurant" invited Master Hao to come over in the last issue, basically everyone in the chef profession across the country knows Li Yi.
And because of Master Hao’s performance in the show, they all regard Li Yi as a chef of the same level as Master Hao.
Therefore, after finally meeting Li Yi, they naturally wanted to ask Li Yi for advice and advice.
But Li Yi is not being polite. Their level is indeed very good, otherwise they would not be able to take charge of such a high-level meeting and banquet.
If you have to find faults, they are just trivial and insignificant problems, just due to lack of experience.
Looking at their sincere attitude, Li Yi briefly told them about his experience in such large banquets.
For example, the timing of making pastries and noodles; when to focus on frying fried foods; the priority of steaming and stewing vegetables, etc.
The two chefs listened to Li Yi's explanation with serious faces, and raised their eyebrows from time to time, feeling that they had gained a lot.
At their level, the cooking skills have already been established, and it is difficult to improve technically.
And they really lack experience in such large banquets.
Many of the problems Li Yi mentioned are where they made mistakes in the kitchen, and they are also areas where they can improve in the future.
Only they understand the value of these experiences, and they will definitely not be able to summarize them without hosting several such large-scale banquets.
Li Yi told them this and helped them avoid many detours.
So, after listening to Li Yi's words, they thanked him repeatedly and expressed their gratitude. They all said they wanted to invite Li Yi to sit at their work place, treat him to a meal, and thank him properly. Li Yi just taught them some experience for the sake of his colleagues, without expecting anything in return, so he declined politely.
Seeing this, the two chefs knew enough not to bother them anymore, and said goodbye and left.
Li Yi was happy to have some leisure time and continued to eat.
But Director Zhu seemed to be displeased with how leisurely he was, so he found him after a while and took him to the white-haired old man.
The review of Jinling Yunjin's World Heritage project will be tomorrow. The white-haired old man called Li Yi over to express his concern and encouragement.
After Li Yi dealt with it, he asked Director Zhu to arrange a car to take him back to the hotel.
He was not very interested in such an occasion, and his food was not stable, so he simply went back to the hotel to make a video call with Liu Yifei.
Early the next morning, Director Zhu came downstairs to the hotel, picked up Li Yi, and went straight to the convention and exhibition center.
On the way there, Director Zhu kept talking about it, for fear that something would go wrong.
But Li Yi was not worried. Instead, he was more interested in today's dinner dishes.
Seeing Li Yi's leisurely look, Director Zhu became even more anxious.
So after arriving at the meeting venue, he held Li Yi next to him and accompanied him to listen to the review process of heritage projects in various countries.
The two Yunjin World Heritage projects were scheduled to be reviewed in the afternoon. The one reviewed in the morning was the project that failed to pass the review due to insufficient material preparation in the previous session.
Through listening, Li Yi also gained a certain understanding of the review standards for world cultural heritage.
According to the requirements of the General Assembly, if a project is to be approved as a World Heritage Site, it must meet one of six criteria.
These six standards are:
1. Represents a unique achievement, a masterpiece of creative genius.
2. Works that can have a significant impact on the development of architectural art, monumental art, town planning or landscape design within a certain period of time or within a certain cultural region of the world.
3. It can provide a unique or at least special witness to a civilization or cultural tradition that has disappeared.
4. It can be used as a masterpiece example of a type of architectural complex or landscape, showing one or several important stages in human history.
5. It can be used as an example of a traditional human settlement or use site, representing one or several cultures, especially an address that is subject to irreversible changes and is easily damaged.
6. Physical objects that are directly or substantially related to current traditional thoughts, beliefs or cultural and artistic works and have special universal significance.
To pass the review, the project must meet one or more of the above six criteria.
In addition to meeting these six criteria, heritage projects also need to be representative, rare and complete.
In addition, the committee will also evaluate the value of the heritage based on its excellence, span, rarity, carrying capacity, originality, endangerment, and popularity.
According to the deliberation standards, without the actual Yunjin brocade produced by Li Yi, Hua’s Yunjin brocade project would definitely not be able to beat Neon’s Yunjin brocade project.
Because the materials submitted by the other party not only contain detailed historical development context, but also provide evidence of related technologies and cultural relics.
However, the key technologies missing from the Huaguo Yunjin project materials have been restored by Li Yi.
In this way, the historical development of Yunjin in China is completely connected, and even the development of silk in Neon Country is included in it.
During the deliberation process in the morning, the Neon Country delegation frequently looked back to Li Yi, as if they had a premonition of something.
In the afternoon, as soon as the meeting began and it was announced that the review of the Neon Country Brocade cultural heritage project had begun, Toshi Konoyama quickly came to the podium and took out the speech he had prepared.
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