A slew of ICH items are showcased at the shopping festival held on June 11 in Tai'an, Shandong province. [Photo by Liu Ping/chinanews.com]

Tai'an in Shandong province held a shopping festival featuring a cluster of intangible cultural heritage items on June 11 to celebrate China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day, which fell on June 11 this year.

More than 40 national, provincial and city-level ICH items from Tai'an were showcased in various forms at Dai Temple, aiming to attract more public attention to the protection of the ICH items, and promoting the high-quality development of the ICH protection work in the city.

An ICH inheritor displays how to embellish silver during the shopping festival held on June 11 in Tai'an, Shandong province. [Photo by Liu Ping/chinanews.com]

The public enjoys a Taishan shadow puppetry, which is a national ICH with over 600 years of history, at the shopping festival held on June 11 in Tai'an, Shandong province. [Photo by Liu Ping/chinanews.com]

An ICH inheritor shows her artwork at the festival held in Tai'an, Shandong province in celebration of China's Cultural and Natural Heritage Day. [Photo by Liu Ping/chinanews.com]