"Something that is part of the World Heritage cannot be seen exclusively with the eye," cautions Alice Ruhwa Chiu, executive director of the Yaoshan Cultural Foundation, who in recent years has been untiring in her promotion of the World Heritage concept.
然而，人類歷史淵源流長，究竟什麼才夠格叫做「世界遺產」？如何申請？教科文組織對文化資產與自然資產分別制訂了一套的評定基準。文化資產至少必須具有下列六項標準之一：一、表現人類創造力的經典之作。