The Nine Cauldrons were recognized by UNESCO as documentary heritage.

(Dan Tri) - The reliefs cast on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace have been officially listed in the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Documentary Heritage List.

On the afternoon of November 23, the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province held a ceremony to receive the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Documentary Heritage Certificate for the reliefs on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Royal Palace .

Previously, at the 10th Session of the Memory of the World Program for the Asia-Pacific region held in Mongolia, the reliefs on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace were listed in the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Documentary Heritage List.

Thua Thien Hue receives Certificate of recognition of documentary heritage of reliefs cast on nine bronze cauldrons in Hue Royal Palace (Photo: Ngoc Hieu).

Speaking at the reception ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Van Phuong, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province, said that the Nine Dynastic Urns were cast in 1835 and completed in 1837 under the reign of King Minh Mang. This is considered a vivid encyclopedia of images about Vietnam at that time.

The Nine Cauldrons were recognized as a national treasure by the Prime Minister in 2012.

UNESCO's recognition of the reliefs on the nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace as a World Documentary Heritage once again affirms the stature and historical value of the Nine Cauldrons in the world's cultural heritage.

According to Mr. Phuong, Thua Thien Hue is honored to be the first locality in the country to have a heritage recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage (Hue Monuments Complex, 1993) and is also the place that owns the first intangible heritage of Vietnam, included in the list of representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity (Hue Royal Court Music, 2003).

Up to now, Thua Thien Hue is the locality with the largest number of world heritages in Vietnam, with 8 heritages recognized by UNESCO.

Nine Urns in Hue Royal Palace (Photo: Vi Thao)

Mr. Jonathan Wallace Baker, Chief Representative of UNESCO Office in Vietnam, said that the reliefs on the Nine Tripod Cauldrons have preserved the value of the exchange and interaction between the cultures of Vietnamese society and East Asian countries. This is a documentary heritage of humanity that needs to be preserved, conserved, accessed in an integral, permanent manner and properly recognized.

According to Mr. Jonathan Wallace Baker, Thua Thien Hue has done well and achieved remarkable results in heritage conservation work.

The reliefs cast on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace have been recognized, bringing the total number of documentary heritages of Vietnam to 10, including three world documentary heritages and seven Asia-Pacific documentary heritages.

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