Preserving and promoting traditional culture of ethnic minorities

The Standing Committee of Lac Duong District Party Committee launched a movement to wear traditional ethnic costumes among cadres, civil servants and public employees on local festivals.

• PRESERVE ETHNIC CULTURE

According to the leaders of Lac Duong district, the proportion of ethnic minorities in the district currently accounts for over 65% of the district's population, mainly the K'Ho - Lach people. With typical cultural features in life and activities, the ethnic minority community in Lac Duong district has been aware of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, including collecting and preserving the living and production tools of their ethnic group. Many households, especially those that organize gong cultural exchanges to serve tourists and Catholic parishes in the area, have been interested in collecting traditional living and production tools of the Lach people such as: plows, harrows, jars, pots, axes, crossbows, gongs, cymbals, shirts, loincloths, to baskets, mats, and woven products from sedge... such as the families of Mr. Dagout Brice Liem, Pang Ting Mut, Pang Ting Sin, Krajan Tham...

Along with that, the K'Ho - Lach people in Lac Duong district also preserve and promote the unique culinary culture of their people, including the culture of making and using rice wine. Rice wine products have been brought to serve tourists by the K'Ho - Lach people in Lac Duong town since the tourism industry began to exploit in the district and have brought a fairly stable income for the people. To preserve and promote this unique cultural feature, quite early, Lac Duong district established a cooperative group to make and consume rice wine products with the brand name "Lang Biang rice wine" known to domestic and foreign tourists. Besides, the Lach community has also been interested and conscious of preserving their traditional dishes. In particular, since Lang Biang Parish was established (1991), along with the participation of authorities at all levels in propagating and mobilizing people to preserve and promote traditional culture, parishioners have repeatedly collected and edited documents on traditional dishes, ingredients and preparation procedures of each dish.

To move towards building an online lookup dictionary on the district's Intelligent Operation Center (OIC) system, Lac Duong has directed the construction of a K'Ho dictionary, and at the same time mobilized parishioners to pay attention to preserving and promoting the K'Ho - Lach language and writing. The Lang Biang Parish Council has organized research and collected the K'Ho - Lach dictionary, which has so far basically completed the rough part with about 5,000 words. In parallel with the construction of the dictionary and other activities to preserve and promote traditional culture, Lang Biang Parish also regularly organizes for children to learn the K'Ho - Lach language combined with catechism during the summer. Therefore, parishioners in general and young people in the parish in particular basically know how to read and write both the common language and the K'Ho - Lach language. Along with that, a number of artists, artisans, cadres, civil servants and public employees who are K'Ho - Lach in the district have been actively participating in collecting and composing musical works, poems, legends, customary laws... such as Meritorious Artist Krajan Dick. In addition, the K'Ho - Lach people also collect and list place names, rivers, streams, mountains, hills... named in K'Ho in legends, or in everyday life within the territory of Lam Dong province to preserve for future generations to know the original names of place names in the region.

Lac Duong district regularly organizes Lang Biang Cuisine and Wine Competition to preserve and promote the unique features of traditional dishes of ethnic minorities.

• CONSERVATION AND PROMOTION

To raise awareness of preserving and promoting traditional cultural identity, in recent times, the Standing Committee of Lac Duong District Party Committee has launched a movement to wear traditional ethnic costumes among cadres, civil servants, public employees and students of schools in the district during local festivals, flag-salute ceremonies and collective activities... Encourage and call on students to wear traditional costumes of their ethnic groups when going to school. Not only that, the district leaders also called on local businesses that employ ethnic minorities in general and K'Ho people in particular, as well as business activities related to K'Ho traditional culture to equip and encourage employees to wear traditional ethnic costumes when working... Thereby contributing to arousing pride and gradually raising awareness of preserving culture and traditional costumes of the people, while contributing to creating a market for K'Ho brocade products, helping brocade weaving artisans have income to improve the quality of life from preserving the cultural identity of their people.

Lac Duong also regularly organizes competitions and cultural exchanges between units and localities in the district on traditional dishes, gong playing competitions, traditional and modern costume competitions... In addition, the Lach community also regularly organizes games depicting traditional production activities such as: weaving sedge, weaving baskets, pounding rice, fishing... during local festivals.

In particular, the Lach ethnic community at the foot of Lang Biang Mountain has brought its traditional culture into tourism exploitation, not only contributing to improving the lives of the people but also preserving and spreading the traditional culture of the K'Ho people to domestic and foreign tourists through gong cultural exchange activities. Currently, in Lac Duong town, there are 12 groups registered for gong cultural exchange activities, of which 10 groups are maintaining the organization of daily tourist service activities.

Lac Duong district has also paid attention to and directed strongly in building cultural institutions and infrastructure to preserve and promote traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic groups. The district has completed the construction and initially put into operation the "K'Ho ethnic traditional cultural village" in Dung K'Si village, Da Chais commune. At the same time, it is implementing the construction of a "Community cultural tourism village" in Dung K'no commune. In addition, it has directed the collection of production and labor objects for display, as well as research on the restoration of traditional cultural activities such as: weddings and engagements of the K'Ho people, organizing horse racing without saddles and continuing to research, collect and restore the New Rice Festival, Buffalo Stabbing Festival... to serve tourists, especially during festivals.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/202504/bao-ton-va-phat-huy-van-hoa-truyen-thong-cua-dong-bao-dtts-8747980/