Preserving and developing culture and folk arts of ethnic minorities in mountainous areas

On August 16, the People's Committee of Quang Ngai province coordinated with the Vietnam Folklore Association to organize a scientific workshop "Culture and folklore of ethnic groups in mountainous areas of Quang Ngai province and the South Central Coast in the new situation".

According to Prof. Dr. Le Hong Ly - Chairman of the Vietnam Folklore Association, the South Central provinces have no less than 30 ethnic minorities living. This creates significant cultural diversity for the entire region, the richer the cultural picture, the more opportunities there are to help develop the socio-economy for the entire region.

The natural law is that when migrating to other areas, ethnic communities from minority to majority all bring their own cultural identity, which sometimes cannot be preserved in the place they leave. That is the phenomenon of peripheral fossilization of ethnic culture.

Besides preserving their own ethnic culture, these ethnic communities also absorb the cultural values of the ethnic groups they live with to create new cultural nuances, both unique and creating diversity and richness for the new land.

Change is natural for all phenomena. However, change is to develop on the basis of traditions that have been built and nurtured with the sweat and blood of many previous generations, not to forget or erase those traditional values, which sooner or later will lead to loss of roots and extinction.

Prof. Dr. Le Hong Ly - Chairman of Vietnam Folk Arts Association spoke at the conference.

“As the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said at the National Culture Conference on November 24, 2021: “If culture remains, the nation remains, if culture is lost, the nation is lost”, that is also the goal of the conference, and there will have to be more conferences for us to preserve and protect the cultural values of our ancestors” - Prof. Dr. Le Hong Ly said.

At the workshop, scientists, experts, researchers, etc. presented many meaningful papers to clarify issues on culture, folk arts of ethnic groups and orientations and solutions to preserve and promote them in the provinces of the South Central region, including Quang Ngai.

Delegates present papers at the conference.

Quang Ngai is a convergence and residential area of ethnic minorities Hre, Cor, Ca Dong, mainly concentrated in 5 mountainous districts.

During the process of formation and development, ethnic minorities in the province have created cultural heritage values, traditions, rich in identity, which have been passed down and preserved through many generations.

In the process of integration and development, our country in general and Quang Ngai province in particular have achieved many great achievements in economy, culture, society, and the material and spiritual life of the people has been increasingly improved.

However, this process also poses many challenges for the preservation and promotion of traditional cultural and artistic values of ethnic minority communities. Language, writing, folk literature, folk performing arts... are at risk of fading away and being lost.

Material life, cultural and spiritual enjoyment are not uniform among regions, and do not meet the increasingly high requirements in building and developing the country in the new situation.

Permanent Vice Chairman of Quang Ngai Provincial People's Committee Tran Hoang Tuan spoke at the workshop.

“The workshop was organized to concretize the policies of the Party and the State. Quang Ngai province hopes to receive many constructive comments and solutions, both theoretical and practical, so that the culture and folk arts of the ethnic groups in the mountainous areas of Quang Ngai province and the South Central region can be preserved and developed, lasting with the cultural history, blending into the cultural flow of the 54 ethnic groups of Vietnam, contributing to the cause of innovation, integration and development of the country” - Permanent Vice Chairman of Quang Ngai Provincial People's Committee Tran Hoang Tuan emphasized.

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