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 Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, members of Unesco’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity voted to recognize 46 cultural practices, nominated by the governments of 28 countries, with a place on the list. Additional new inductees included Korean wooden architecture, traditional Iranian bakhshi music, and Luxembourg’s “hopping procession of Echternach.” UN Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity was expanded to 213 traditional elements.

A total of 13 traditional celebrations, healing techniques, crafts and culinary arts were newly inscribed into the list, according to the Paris-based UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which supervises and guards the list.

The Chinese Peking Opera and acupuncture, Armenian cross-stone art, Colombian Marimba music and French gastronomic meal are among the members newly recognized by the UNESCO committee.

As for the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, the reviewing meeting in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, also added four new elements, bringing the total number to 16.