WICHPDF
Sustainability through Living Heritage
Welcome to World Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection & Development Foundation, in short WICHPDF, where we embark on a journey to celebrate and safeguard the invaluable treasures of our planet. In a world where sustainability has become an imperative, we stand as advocates for the protection and development of living heritage.
Will you join us for the journey?
WICHPDF, now in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) [learn more], has a strong vision of helping to improve the quality of life of people around the world in accordance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As the opening of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly approaches, we take this opportunity to highlight our efforts in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of 2030.
About Our Foundation
Our Story
WICHPDF was founded in 2018; however, the story began long before then.
Our Mission
To preserve, protect and take action in building holistic lifestyles and a sustainable world.
Our Approach
Qi practice, qi acupuncture, and qi longevity
Inheritance Base
Preserve, protect and build through strategic partnerships
At the UN 78th Session of the General Assembly
Meetings and Sessions
The Founder and Chairman of WICHPDF, Xunhua Zhang, will be attending the following meetings/session at the 78th session:
- SDG Action Weekend
- SDG Summit
- High-level meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response
- High-level meeting on UniversalHealth Coverage on the overall theme of “Universal health coverage: expanding our ambition for health and well-being in a post-COVID world
- High-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis (TB)
Our Key Programs
Combining ancient Chinese health remedies with modern techniques and technology to build a better, healthier world community.
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Huangdi Neijing (simplified Chinese: 黄帝内经; traditional Chinese: 黃帝內經; pinyin: Huángdì Nèijīng), literally the Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor or Esoteric Scripture of the Yellow Emperor, is an ancient Chinese medical text or group of texts that has been treated as a fundamental doctrinal source for Chinese medicine for more than two millennia. The work comprises two texts—each of eighty-one chapters or treatises in a question-and-answer format between the mythical Yellow Emperor and six of his equally legendary ministers.
The first text, the Suwen (素問), also known as Basic Questions,[1] covers the theoretical foundation of Chinese Medicine and its diagnostic methods. The second and generally less referred-to text, the Lingshu (靈樞; Spiritual Pivot), discusses acupuncture therapy in great detail. Collectively, these two texts are known as the Neijing or Huangdi Neijing. In practice, however, the title Neijing often refers only to the more influential Suwen. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangdi_Neijing
Also, see the definition at
An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to be part of a place's cultural heritage. Buildings, historic places, monuments, and artifacts are cultural property. Intangible heritage consists of nonphysical intellectual wealth, such as folklore, customs, beliefs, traditions, knowledge, and language. -Wikipedia
Representative Inheritor is China’s system of identifying “Living Human Treasures” as proposed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). As defined by UNESCO, “Living Human Treasures are persons who possess to a very high degree the knowledge and skills required for performing or re‐creating specific elements of the intangible cultural heritage. “Each Member State should choose an appropriate title to designate the bearers of knowledge and skills, the title of “Living Human Treasures” proposed by UNESCO being indicative. Among the systems in existence, there are already a variety of titles: Master of Art (France), Bearer of Popular Craft Tradition (Czech Republic), National Living Treasure (Republic of Korea), Holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property (Japan and Republic of Korea).”