On March 29, the Government Office issued a document conveying Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha's opinion on submitting the Mo Muong and Cheo art dossiers to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Considering the proposal of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST) and the assessment of the National Cultural Heritage Council, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha agreed to submit to UNESCO for consideration and inclusion of Mo Muong intangible cultural heritage in the list of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection, and Cheo intangible cultural heritage in the list of representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
Muong Mo has 9 genres: Mo in funerals, Mo Via, Mo to dispel bad luck, Mo to ask for numbers, Mo on Tet holiday, Mo Tho Cong Tho Dia, Mo Doi Chopsticks, Mo Mat Nha, Mo Mu.
The Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to carry out necessary procedures to submit the heritage dossier to UNESCO, ensuring the time limit prescribed by the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the law on cultural heritage.
Mo Muong is a folk performance activity, expressed in rituals associated with the spiritual life of the Muong people. The space for organizing performance activities and mo words takes place in community life and each family organizes a ritual.
The subjects practicing Mo Muong are the shamans. The shamans are the ones who speak, read, and sing the mo songs when performing the ceremony. Mo Muong includes many mo songs and mo segments used in each specific ritual.
Through a long historical process from the 10th century to the present, the art of Cheo has penetrated deeply into cultural and social life.
Cheo is a Vietnamese folk theatrical art form, which has developed strongly and is popular in the Red River Delta and two other areas, the Northern midlands and mountainous areas and the North Central region. Cheo is popular and is often associated with folk festivals.
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