Cultural heritage

• Cultural heritages are those things related to culture which passed on from one generation to next.
• Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
• Tangible culture heritage includes (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, books, works of art, and artifacts).
• Intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).

Importance of cultural heritage

The importance of cultural heritages can be explained in a number of ways.

a) Harmony in the society: Cultural heritages are closely related to people. If people practice their religious principle properly, they will be in discipline. It helps to develop a harmony in the society.

b) Integral parts of an environment: The components of cultural heritages like ponds, rivers etc. are the part of natural environment and components such as temples, statues are part of physical environment. Therefore, cultural heritages are integral parts of environment.

c) Sources of information: Cultural heritages contain lots of ancient civilization knowledge. People could study their ancient civilization.

d) Various social activities, National festivals, ceremony, fares religious places come under the cultural heritage.

e) Development of religion and culture helps to develop knowledge and skill related to it. It contributes to the development of education skills and arts in the country.

f) Each country has its own cultural heritage. It includes its originality, specialty of tradition and other valuable aspects.

g) It has accumulated the originality, characteristics and traditions of the country. These are the precious properties of the nation. They have held the pride of the national.