(HBO) - Mrs. Bui Minh Hong, Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Tan Lac district said: In order to preserve ethnic cultural character, communes and towns mobilized Muong women, youth and enthusiasts of Muong culture to establish teams of letters and arts performance for communities and hamlets. Everyone contributes funds to practice and develop local cultural and artistic movements.
A Hat Doi (challenge-and-response)
singing act of members of cultural character preservation club of Hamlet Dinh
II, Man Duc Commune, Tan Lac district.
The district
Department of Culture and Information issued regulations to coordinate with the
district Women's Union to propagate and
mobilize members to establish a club to preserve Muong cultural character.
Every year, the district Department of Culture and Information organizes
training courses on skills of beating gongs and teaching folk songs for members
of letters and arts of communes, on that basis, encourages all communes to
establish cultural character preservation clubs.
Currently, Tan Lac
district established 02 cultural character preservation clubs, including: Ngoi
hamlet club (Ngoi Hoa commune) established in March 2017 and Dinh II hamlet
club (Man Duc commune) established in March 2019. The two clubs regularly
organize exchanges of culture and letters & arts; teach members and young
generations how to sing folk songs, folk dance, Hat Doi (challenge and
response) singing, beat gongs. Women maintain wearing ethnic costumes. The
special performances of Ngoi hamlet club have contributed to promoting the
culture and beauty of Muong Bi people to tourists.
The two clubs that
preserve ethnic cultural character in Ngoi Hoa and Man Duc Communes play an
important role in preserving and promoting Muong Bi's cultural values. In the
coming time, the district Culture and Information Department continues to
encourage communes and towns to establish clubs. Encouraging and creating
conditions for organizations and individuals to study, teach and introduce
Muong Bi customs, practices and culture.
In the evening of March 28th, in Hoa Binh, the Department of Grassroots Culture (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) coordinated with the provincial Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the city to organize a mobile propaganda contest to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7th, 1954 - May 7th, 2024) with the theme "Returning to Dien Bien”. There ứa the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; the representatives of the leaders from a number of departments, branches and numerous veterans and Hoa Binh people.
In responding to the movement of "All people stay united to build cultural lifestyle”, over the years, Kim Boi district has conducted many practical and effective activities to promote solidarity and mutual support among the local community in sustainable poverty reduction and building cultural lifestyle and a healthy cultural environment, and maintaining national cultural identity.
Hoa Binh Pedagogical College has just held the closing ceremony of the training class and issued the certificate of the language of Muong ethnic people to the oficials, civil servants and public employees of courses I and II in 2023.
Hoa Binh is an ancient land home to limestone mountains running along the southeast direction and in parallel with Truong Son Mountain Range in the West, forming many basins and valleys with a rich diversity of fauna and flora. Humans came to reside here in the pre-historic period, creating the world-famous Hoa Binh Civilisation.
The Dao ethnic minority group in Hoa Binh province has preserved many unique cultural identities, especially rituals and belief. In particular, Nhay (dance) festival is the most important ritual with a long history, vividly reflecting the religious life of the local Dao people.