folk heritage
Ancestral customs passed down
Folk heritage encompasses the traditions, customs, arts, and knowledge passed down through generations within a community—songs, dances, crafts, stories, and practices that define a group's cultural identity.
Unlike formal cultural institutions, folk heritage lives in everyday life: The festival celebrates our folk heritage through traditional music and handmade quilts.
It often carries a sense of something worth preserving against modernization.
- folktaleTraditional narrative passed down
- old wives' talesTraditional unfounded beliefs
- mythTraditional explanatory tale
- legendUnverified traditional tale
- potteryFired clay objects
ancestor veneration · proverb · herbal medicine · beadwork · oral tradition · mother tongue · jig · woodcarving · fertility rituals · sacred grove · puppet show · basketry · storytelling · village elder · traditional drumming · blacksmithing · harvest festival · country fair
- fiddlingfiddling, fiddle, fiddler, fiddle tune, fiddle tunes
folk heritagenovelty
Quality of being original
innovation · fad · trend · fakelore
folk heritagehigh culture
Society's esteemed artistic traditions
elite culture · court culture · fine art · classical tradition · bourgeois culture