The Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism has issued a plan to help the research, restoration, and preservation of ethnic minorities’ intangible cultures that are prone to falling into oblivion.
The Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism has labored to protect the standard brocade weaving of the Mong ethnic group in Mu Cang Chai district, Yen Bai province. (Photograph: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Tradition, Sports activities and Tourism has issued a plan to help the research, restoration, and preservation of ethnic minorities’ intangible cultures that are prone to falling into oblivion.
The programme, to be carried out in Q2 and Q3, is predicted to contribute to saving the “khen be” (panpipe) artwork of the Thai individuals in Nghia Lo township, the standard brocade weaving of the Mong group within the northwestern province of Yen Bai, the “cap sac” maturity ritual of the San Diu ethnics in Tam Dao district of the northern midland province of Vinh Phuc, and the artwork of masks making of the Khmer neighborhood within the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh.
Accordingly, the ministry’s Division of Ethnic Tradition will help the teams with tools and musical devices to carry out and re-enact the rituals, take photographs and make documentaries concerning the restoration course of, whereas burning DVD discs and delivering them to locals in order to popularise the preservation outcomes in addition to the standard cultures.
The programme is hoped to boost solidarity among the many ethnic teams by way of the instructing and studying of folks songs, dances, and cultural rituals, and promote the roles of artisans, village patriarchs, prestigious individuals and the communities within the preservation work./.
