Like tangible cultural heritages such as the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, intangible cultural heritages like Peking Opera and Confucius-commemorating rituals are equally crucial.

對比長城和紫禁城這樣的有形文化遺產，像京劇和孔子紀念儀式這樣的非物質文化遺產同樣重要。

We should make our utmost efforts to preserve intangible heritages because, without their physical form of existence, they are in greater risk of extinction.

我們應該盡最大努力去保護非物質遺產，因為沒有它們的物質存在，它們就有更大的滅絕風險。

According to UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage , all forms of social customs and habits, folklore, performing arts, rituals, oral traditions, festivals, traditional crafts and various knowledge and practices about nature and universe can be classified as intangible cultural heritages.

根據聯合國教科文組織的公約對非物質文化遺產保護，各種形式的社會風俗習慣、民俗、表演藝術、儀式、口頭傳統(tǒng)、節(jié)慶、傳統(tǒng)手工藝、關于自然和宇宙的知識和實踐可以分為非物質文化遺產。

As a country consisting of a great diversity of ethnic groups and with time-honored history and civilization, China abounds in intangible cultural heritages.

Cultural heritages connect modern people with the historical past, allowing them to acquire a cultural and historical identity. Without cultural heritages, we would be rendered absolutely rootless and we would find it hard to cope with challenges at present and in the future.

作為一個由多種多樣的`民族，擁有悠久的歷史和文明的國家，中國豐富的非物質文化遺產。文化遺產將現代人與歷史的過去聯系起來，使他們獲得了文化和歷史的認同。如果沒有文化遺產，我們就會變得完全無根，我們會發(fā)現很難應對當下及未來的挑戰(zhàn)。

However, the modernization process poses mounting threats to intangible heritages. Many people have a blind faith in the latest electronic devices. It is also pathetic to see elderly people in possession of such legacies pass away without transmitting them to the younger generation.

Faced with those challenges, we should both preserve and renovate our ancestral heritages so that we can help contribute to the cultural diversity of the world and return to our spiritual homeland in this age of impersonal science and technology.

面對這些挑戰(zhàn)，我們既要保護和更新我們的祖先遺產，使我們能夠幫助促進文化多樣性的世界，并返回到我們的精神家園在這個時代的客觀科學和技術。