The "Seventeen Ties" refers to the seventeen knots binding the three-color silk braid depicted in traditional Chinese knotwork craft — recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. China's gold bullion and commemorative program has increasingly used this series to document endangered or government-catalogued folk arts, a policy direction formalized under the 14th Five-Year Plan's cultural preservation mandates.
The "Seventeen Ties" refers to the seventeen knots binding the three-color silk braid depicted in traditional Chinese knotwork craft — recognized by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009. China's gold bullion and commemorative program has increasingly used this series to document endangered or government-catalogued folk arts, a policy direction formalized under the 14th Five-Year Plan's cultural preservation mandates.