Van Ban preserves the cultural identity of ethnic minorities
Van Ban district currently has 3 intangible cultural heritages that have been included in the list of national intangible cultural heritages, including: Tay ethnic descending festival; ceremony to pray to the village of "Áy lay" of the Dao people; Throughout the Nôm the Tay ethnic group. Along with the Tày people's tug of ritual and folk games, recently the Then Tay ritual has also been recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage representing humanity. Both of these two heritages exist in the life of the Tay Van Ban people.Across Nom is a unique folk tune, associated with the life, production and activities of the Tay people in Van Ban, which are preserved and promoted. All over Nom was recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and included in the list of "National Intangible Cultural Heritage". In recent years, in addition to maintaining 12 clubs across the country in 12 communes and towns with a large number of Tay people living, every year, Van Ban district organizes the All-Nôm Tay festival. This is the "playing field" that attracts many members in clubs across the country to participate in, contributing to preserving the folk song of Khap Nom ...
Khap Nom folk singing class Khanh Yen Trung. |
Ms. Phung Hoang Oanh, Deputy Head of the Office of Culture and Information of Van Ban district, said: The Everywhere Festival is maintained annually by Van Ban district, meaningful to the work of preserving and promoting the cultural identities of the ethnic groups. This is an opportunity to honor the cultural heritage imbued with the identity of the Tay people, as a motivation for club members to maintain cultural activities, preserve traditional values, especially folk songs. People dance of the Tay people like singing against, singing teaser, singing quiz, excerpts from traditional rituals ...
In particular, in 2019, in the framework of the cultural development target program, Van Ban district was sponsored by the National Institute of Culture and Arts of Vietnam to open a teaching class for the folk songs of Khap Nom in Khanh Yen Trung commune with primary contents such as traditional key dance, production congratulation dance, scarf dance, fish-shoveling dance; Across Nom is charming, Khap Nome invites wine ... This is also an opportunity for Van Ban district to develop and elevate the typical type of Tày people's folk activities, promoting cultural heritage values in the community.
Artist Hoang Thi Quan, Chairman of the Club across Nôm Khanh Yen Trung shared: The organization of a local dance teaching class for Khomomong folk songs will motivate us artists and members of the club to preserve, preserve and further promote the value of the heritage of the whole. Nom in the cultural life of the Tay people.
During the year, Van Ban district has focused and done well in the protection and promotion of cultural heritages and monuments. Accordingly, the district continues to research, survey, and prepare scientific records of Tran Ha's ruins as provincial-level historical relics; coordinated with the Provincial Museum to organize a zoning workshop to make a record of the victory site of the French post in Duong Quy and submit to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, until now it has been recognized as a historical and cultural relic. ; Coordinate with the Department of Heritage (Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism) to research, survey, and collect information on images and witnesses in communes: Khanh Yen Trung, Chieng Ken, Khanh Yen Ha to set up documents to recognize the Tày people's earthquake ceremony in the area of Van Ban district ... The district also coordinates with Vietnam Television Station to record and produce episodes. films about the Tay cultural identity in Liem Phu commune and Lang Giang commune, Xa Pho ethnic group in Son Thuy commune, the Green Mong ethnic group in Nam Xe commune to broadcast on the national television channel to promote the literary features. unique, rich identity of the community of ethnic minorities in the district.
Ground-breaking ceremony of the Tay people in Chieng Ken commune |
Every year, the District Department of Culture and Information coordinates with the commune authorities to maintain and manage the successful organization of early spring festivals as well as festivals in the year, such as the Tay in the field Chieng Ken, Co Tan An temple festival, "mo greedy" ritual of Tay people in Giang Lang; the Tày people's earth ceremony worshiping in Chieng Ken. The District Department of Culture and Information also coordinates with the management, propaganda and guidance for localities and clans to organize Then Tay rituals, excellent rites of the Red Dao people, the new rice ceremony of Xa Pho people. , traditional weddings ... on the principle of preserving cultural identity, eliminating customs.
Implementing cultural criteria in the program of building a new countryside, in addition to building a cultural lifestyle, preserving cultural identities of ethnic groups, Van Ban district also pays attention to improving the quality of cultural life of rural people. During the year, the district directed communes to maintain and improve the quality of activities of 263 village and village performance teams associated with the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life". Improve the quality of titles of cultural villages and residential groups in the district, step by step invest in new, upgrade and efficiently use communal cultural houses, village community houses, residential groups ...