It’s difficult to clear the concept of intangible heritage academically. But as the movement of intangible heritage goes wildly, only scholars still confusing about it. The principle of Authenticity was born from desk thoughts of scholars, which turned out to be fakelore. Nonetheless those folk songs went popular and played an important role in the construction of nation recognition. The concept of Authenticity in field of intangible heritage is different from it is in Existentialism. The corresponding concept in philosophy is Essentialism, which I am convicted is false. In order to understand reality, we must abandon the imagination about it in our brain. |