BEIJING, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The "China Cultural Heritage Day: Chengdu Week" opened on Tuesday. Twenty-seven national intangible cultural heritages were displayed with other folk arts in Chengdu. June 10, 2006 is the first national Cultural Heritage Day in China.

Dancers from the Luxian County of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, perform folk dragon dance in a ceremony to greet the coming China Cultural Heritage Day in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 6, 2006. As a way to pray for good weather and harvest, the dance was quite popular during the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and the early Qing Dynasty (1616-1911). It is one of the national intangible cultural heritages of China. (Xinhua Photo)

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