THE RIGHT KEY
Prior to an Olympic welcoming banquet on February 5 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, Prince of Monaco Albert II tried his hand at dough sculpting. The volunteer helping His Serene Highness knead the doe-eyed Bing Dwen Dwen, roly-poly mascot of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, was 26-year-old Lang Jiaziyu, a third-generation inheritor of Dough Figurines Lang (Mian Ren Lang in Chinese), a National Intangible Cultural Heritage item since 2008.
The term “cultural inheritor” often conjures up
