(HBO) – In the recent past, the amateur musical movement in Luong Son district of Hoa Binh province has developed strongly. Amateur musical clubs and troupes have been set up in villages and residential areas with the participation of a large number of people of all ages, thus helping enrich the community’s spiritual life and preserve traditional cultural values.
Members of the musical troupe of Coi village in Tan
Vinh commune (Luong Son district) rehearse gong performances to prepare for
coming shows.
Coi village boasts a strong amateur musical
movement in Tan Vinh commune. Bui Thi Chinh, head of the village’s musical
troupe, said they gather at the village’s cultural centre every weekend evening
to train for the coming communications contest as well as major anniversaries
and local political events. Thanks to these training sessions, members have
also had a chance to better understand one another and enhance solidarity.
At present, amateur arts troupes in localities
of Luong Son district are busy preparing for the communications contest 2022.
Aside from modern singing and dancing performances, folk songs, dances and
traditional musical instruments are also form part of their shows so as to help
preserve traditional culture.
Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, head of the district’s
culture and information division, said the amateur musical movement is
developing strongly. Aside from grassroots art troupes in localities, many
agencies, associations and organisations also set up their musical clubs and
troupes.
She noted a number of these clubs and troupes
have utilised private funding to purchase performance costumes and musical
instruments, maintain their activities, and take part in contests and shows at
different levels. In addition, they have also made use of their performances to
disseminate the Party’s guidelines, the State’s policies and laws, and their
localities’ regulations, which has received warm support from the local
audiences.
To continue helping implement the plan on
preserving and bringing into play outstanding intangible cultural heritage
values of ethnic groups in Hoa Binh province for the 2018 - 2030 period, the
culture and information division of Luong Son district has worked with the
Centre for Culture, Information and Communications to open annual training
courses on the Muong ethnic group’s gong culture, folk songs and folk dances
for local art troupes. The move also aimed at creating a new generation of
young artisans who will uphold the cultural heritage, including songs and
dances, of the Muong people, according to Hang./.
The Government Office with Document No. 2082/VPCP-KGVX, dated March 29, 2024, sent out the opinion of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha regarding the submission of the "Mo Muong" and "Cheo art" dossiers to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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.
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