Students participating in the "Children's Voices Echoing China" campaign enjoy a guqin performance at the Nantong Grand Theater. [Photo/WeChat account: ntwgx6]

Singing performances for the "Children's Voices Echoing China" campaign were recently held at the Nantong Grand Theater in Nantong, during which the city's intangible cultural heritage items were exhibited.

As the birthplace of Jianghai Culture, Nantong boasts numerous unique intangible cultural heritage items involving music, painting, and crafts.

Blue calico cloth-made sheep-shaped doll and bag are on display at the Nantong Grand Theater. [Photo/WeChat account: ntwgx6]

Blue calico cloth-made zodiac dolls, Nantong-style furniture, Nantong-style bonsais, banyao kites, and copper incense burners attracted much attention, as did the beautiful sound coming from a guqin, a seven-stringed plucked instrument. The Mei'an guqin is the only Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in Nantong.

Ornaments featuring banyao kites are showcased at the Nantong Grand Theater. [Photo/WeChat account: ntwgx6]

Children participating in the singing performances explored Nantong's diverse culture, which inspired their interest in and enthusiasm for traditional Chinese culture.

Nantong is currently home to 12 national intangible cultural heritage items, 93 provincial intangible cultural heritage items, and 148 municipal intangible cultural heritage items with a combined 335 inheritors.