VHO - “Renewing” heritage spaces, so as not to maintain an “inviolable” attitude towards heritage, is something that should be calculated and considered. Because if we only focus on maintaining the status quo of heritage, making efforts to “rigidly” protect heritage spaces, only allowing visitors to come and see and keeping a distance, how many visitors will truly “understand” the heritage?
Especially for young people, who are inherently subject to certain psychological limitations of their age and generational interaction environment, heritage will become an even more “forbidden zone” that should not be touched. This will make the younger generations “avoid” heritage and in fact, the lessons and information about heritage for the younger generation will only be some strange, even incomprehensible praise.
“Moreover, if at certain festival or worship occasions, there are only art troupes performing “dramatic” performances at heritage sites, then viewers will not understand the cultural and historical values of the heritage sites better; even those noisy activities can affect the worship space, the sacred place of the ancients, which is taboo,” emphasized painter Nguyen Thuong Hy, former Head of the Professional Department - Quang Nam Monuments and Landscapes Management Center.
To change that, according to Mr. Le Tri Cong, a researcher of Cham culture in Da Nang, there needs to be rules and a code of conduct that is closer to heritage, sites, and museum artifacts from the perspective of "the more life-like, the more honorable" the "revived" heritage. This way of behaving can be understood when looking at the activities and rituals taking place at destinations, temples, etc. of a folk nature today.
In areas of temples with cultural, historical and heritage values, people still have ways to approach and organize solemn and reasonable ceremonies. For example, in Hue and Hoi An, many folk rituals, folk beliefs, worship customs, spirituality, religion, etc. are still maintained by people in a stable and solemn manner.
The Hon Chen Temple Festival, the cultural spaces of Tet Nguyen Tieu, Tet Trung Thu... are still eagerly awaited by many people on the right occasions of the holidays, showing that the issue of preserving heritage from real life evidence is necessary.
“Heritages in life, closely associated with spiritual life, continue to be nurtured by the people, and must be maintained by the people, and through that, the issue of tourists accessing and penetrating is necessary and should be supported,” Mr. Le Tri Cong assessed.
Mr. Cong's perspective is right on some of the long-standing requirements for heritage conservation, where destinations and cultural heritages are "locked" at the entrance and exit, "fenced" away from visitors, while conditions allow for simple interaction and learning, which will help visitors and locals better understand the heritage culture at the heritage destination itself.
The issue that artist Nguyen Thuong Hy and a number of other heritage culture researchers are interested in and want to raise is how should the rules and regulations for dealing with heritage in a "lifelike" way be built and institutionalized?
Through the debate, research experts pointed out two directions of interaction that should exist at cultural heritages.
Firstly, the work of protecting and ensuring the safety of heritage needs to be “digitalized and technologized” better and more effectively. This is close to the long-standing concept of protecting relics and artifacts, in the sense of preserving their integrity. Instead of letting a large number of tourists approach, touch, and damage artifacts, museums, exhibition areas, and heritage destinations.
Images should be “digitized”, turned into films, slideshows, and 3D simulations for viewers to experience and learn through clear and complete information. This method also seems to help images and heritage stories “go online” in cyberspace, thereby helping to promote and share heritage images better.
Mr. Le Tri Cong raised the question: “At specific display locations, artifacts will have protective fences and surveillance and monitoring cameras, so why not encode information about those artifacts with QR codes, for example, so that visitors can access them more quickly and reasonably.
The way to attract people to learn is also simple, through competitions, gift programs... at heritage destinations, during holidays, events; accordingly, people coming to heritage will be more excited.
Furthermore, according to Mr. Cong, “digitalization” will help young people get closer to heritage when they go with their families and the elderly. “Children will be proud to help their parents read information about digitized heritage, isn’t that a way to help them learn about heritage?”, Mr. Cong reasoned.
Second, at heritage sites, “simulated heritage” areas should be created to better interact with tourists and locals. Artist Nguyen Thuong Hy expressed his satisfaction with this idea and, according to him, has also been studied by many world heritage destinations.
That means right next to the main heritage area, it is necessary to build and design "simulated" experience spaces to create excitement for tourists and residents. This issue, in terms of museums, should be given more attention.
“Instead of just regulating that children are not allowed to touch artifacts, why don’t we have “fake artifact areas” that simulate the artifacts to organize games, organize spaces to learn and explore about heritage and cultural history at the heritage. From there, helping young people have fun, learn about cultural heritage, through such simulated and modeled areas, will make the heritage more vivid,” artist Nguyen Thuong Hy raised the question.
This is his explanation for the incident of students and teenagers trespassing on artifacts at the Military Museum: "It is curiosity that makes children violate the rules, so why not turn that curiosity into a story to attract children to come and play and learn at the heritage and museum?"
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