Strategies on Inheritance and Preservation of Crossing Tongji Bridge Social Custom in Foshan City

Abstract

Tongji Bridge is one of well-known historical interests in Foshan city. Crossing Tongji Bridge social custom is the grand collective activity for local people. Under strong publicity of government departments, the popularity of crossing Tongji Bridge traditional folk culture has been increasingly grown year by year. However, it confronted failure twice being included in nation intangible cultural heritage list. On the other hand, during the peak period of crossing Tongji Bridge social custom, due to the limited load capacity of Tongji Bridge, it may cause potential risk such as stampedes, and even partly collapsing of Tongji Bridge. Aiming to better protect the bridge and help it successfully bidding for national intangible cultural heritage, the paper proposes some helpful strategies on how to protect the Tongji Bridge and also to inherit and preserve its social custom.