Chinese intangible cultural heritage—indigo dyeing

Mar 21, 2025, International Office，5-minute read  

To promote indigenous culture excellence in place, the AXHU School of Foreign Studies’ Languages Guild Mar 19 organized the on-campus intercultural seminar of Chinese art of indigo dyeing handicraft at 411 Lab One, which specially extended invitations to the AXHU School of Urban Construction staff WANG Yan as the guest lecturer, French YOLO Hotel Hefei manager LI Daning (also for conference interpreting), the current international students at the AXHU School of International Education, and other domestic students at the schools and departments. 

With the PPT interpretation at first, covering the origins, workflow, and broader cultural value for centuries, “the Chinese government always highlights the inheritance, diffusion, and evolution of indigo dyeing craftsmanship, and over the recent years AXHU-based workshop was established, especially for the indigo botany plantation in the yard, to well complete the full proceedings, ranging from planting, gathering, stewing, to fermentation...” Wang shared.

During the hand-made experience, Wang offering one-on-one practical instruction on site helped the voluntary students to foster joys of learning and bring out appealing artistic desire via contained operational details such as folding, knotting, dyeing..., piece by piece.    

And “experiencing many of the valuable cultural elements while at AXHU campus helps us acquire a deeper understanding of the goodness and values of Chinese traditional culture,” the international students agreed to the AXHU Education initiatives. 

With the cross-linguistic engagement between cultures across AXHU, the overall educational quality is going higher and also more promising to guarantee the sterling academic career of the students from around the world.

Still, the Guild is about to design being like the indigo dyeing practice, to float more opportunities for the current students to learn about much of Chinese Culture Treasure, and to build up an ‘intercultural bridge’ to contact and communicate the traditional culture’s principal asymmetrical advantage in diversity and inclusion toward the world’s people who have or will be interested in global community of shared future.