OUR SHARED LEGACY--The Wangchuan ceremony, or Ong Chun, from both China and Malaysia, has been inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

“Our joint nomination for the Ong Chun ceremony to be inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity(ICH)has succeeded,”declared Gan Yong Hoe,president of the Baba Nyonya Association of Malaysia,after traveling from Malacca to Kuala Lumpur to join Dato’Sri Hajah Nancy Shukri,Minister of Tourism,Arts and Culture of Malaysia,at the 15th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage via video on December 17,2020.Gan excitedly sent video footage of the event to Chen Geng,former president of the Xiamen Minnan Culture Research Association,an old friend who became an important participant in the joint effort after learning about the ceremony from Gan.