There was a time when cultural life could not "keep up" with economic life, especially in rural areas. But today, many new cultural features are taking shape. At many cultural houses, activities take place bustlingly from morning to night. Green streets, clean houses, and flower-filled roads are spread throughout both the inner city and remote areas of Hanoi. The movement for the whole people to unite to build a cultural life is not a "race" for titles, but is permeating life...
The ritual of welcoming the Holy Cross at the traditional festival "Thirteen camps" (Ba Dinh district). (Photo: MY HA)
Just a few years ago, whenever difficulties in cultural activities were mentioned, Vien Dinh village (Dong Lo commune, Ung Hoa district) was often “named”. Due to lack of funds, the construction of a cultural house was “stuck in place” for many years. Whenever there was a meeting or community activity, the people here had to organize it at the village communal house.
Stories from a place that was once "backward"
Now, “backward progress” is a thing of the past. Coming to Vien Dinh, in the morning, evening or on weekends, everyone sees the village cultural house always bustling with singing and sports competitions. Vien Dinh village cultural house has an area of over 700 m2, a spacious campus, and a reading room with many books. The cultural house operates under a self-management model, with three clubs at the same time: art club, reading club, and sports club. Along with the improvement of cultural life, the environmental landscape is constantly improving. Resident Nguyen Van Tho said: “We have joined hands to preserve the rows of ancient trees, ponds, and water surfaces in the locality... to become a green and clean living space for the countryside. People also contributed tens of millions of VND to build pond banks, erect iron railings, pour concrete on sidewalks, place stone benches, build pots to plant more trees, creating a clean and beautiful landscape...”.
Ung Hoa used to be a locality ranked in the "bottom" of the city in many activities. But now, when coming to Ung Hoa, everyone is surprised by the change when the houses are spacious, the roads are clean and beautiful. The movement of the whole people uniting to build a cultural life is not only reflected in statistics, but has entered the daily life of the people. 145/145 villages in the district have cultural houses, and cultural and sports clubs to gather people.
Looking back at previous years, when the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports first organized the contest "Keeping alleys green and clean, decorating streets beautifully", many people thought that localities would only choose a few streets or villages to decorate for the contest. However, the Department of Culture and Sports hoped that organizing the contest would be a "fire starter", from which to spread the movement. Deputy Head of the Department of Building Cultural Lifestyle and Family (Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports) Nguyen Thanh Tuyen shared: "The cultural title is not something far away, but we create a cultural environment. At home is the model of a Cultural Family, in society are the models of Cultural Villages, Cultural Neighborhoods, Cultural Agencies... To improve the cultural environment, there must be cultural spaces for people to live. Along with that, the landscape environment must also be rich in humanity. Maintaining the landscape environment not only creates a clean and beautiful landscape, but also contributes to "training" the lifestyle of each person. When the landscape is clean and beautiful, people will think twice about littering. Therefore, cultural and civilized lifestyles are gradually improved.
In Ba Vi, from the contest "Keeping alleys green, clean, decorating streets beautifully", the district has concretized it into the contest "Building and maintaining bright, green, clean, beautiful, safe villages, alleys" which has been continuously implemented for many years. People see the benefits and actively respond. From the beginning of 2024 to now, the district has mobilized more than 22.9 billion VND to decorate village roads and alleys, plant 13,461 new trees, install more than 2,000 security cameras, 228 households in villages donated land to expand rural roads. A series of flower roads have appeared. All 303 village cultural houses in Ba Vi have been installed with free wifi, with the main source of funding being contributed by the people. Not yet a "progressive model", but since the beginning of 2024, Phu Chau commune has socialized 400 million VND to carry out the contest "Building and maintaining bright, green, clean, beautiful and safe villages, hamlets and alleys". With the money and working days contributed, people in Phu Chau have continued to build welcome gates, replace lighting systems, paint murals, install convex mirrors to ensure traffic safety, plant flowers and trees on the roads... The face of Phu Chau is increasingly clean and beautiful.
Cultural officials often say: If you want to learn about changes in the cultural environment, you should not only go to "typical" districts such as Ba Dinh, Long Bien, or the leading districts in the new rural areas such as Dan Phuong, Dong Anh, Gia Lam... but also go to remote areas, difficult areas. Indeed, the remote areas of Hanoi are vivid evidence of the achievements in building the cultural life of Hanoi city.
“Raising the bar” for criteria
The criteria of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" are common criteria. But life is always colorful. Therefore, each locality relies on its own characteristics and strengths to choose its own methods and spearhead directions to spread to other activities. And good methods have the power to spread beyond its own locality. For example, when implementing the contest "Building and maintaining bright, green, clean, beautiful and safe villages, hamlets and alleys", Dan Phuong district had many initiatives and innovations, such as organizing monthly judging, promptly encouraging good methods; Dan Phuong also took the lead in mobilizing people to contribute money to install lighting equipment. This experience was learned by other localities.
For cultural houses, institutions are the "shell", activities are the "core". Dong Anh district is a prominent locality in exploiting cultural houses throughout the area. Depending on the conditions of each locality, cultural and sports clubs are established. Where there is strength in traditional arts, a Tuong club is established (such as villages in Co Loa and Xuan Non communes) or a traditional music club is established, where there is a developed poetry movement, a poetry club is established, or in some places a dance club... As for sports clubs, almost every village and hamlet has a very vibrant movement.
Deputy Director of the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports Tran Thi Van Anh shared: “The City Party Committee always pays attention to preserving and promoting cultural identity, building the culture of Thang Long - Hanoi people through implementing Program No. 06-CTr/TU (formerly Program 04) on Cultural Development, improving the quality of human resources, building elegant and civilized Hanoians. In which, building culture and people is an important and consistent factor. With the characteristics of being the capital of a thousand years of culture, Hanoi always focuses on its own unique characteristics. In 2023, the Government issued Decree No. 86/2023/ND-CP on the framework of standards and procedures, procedures, and dossiers for considering and awarding the titles of Cultural Families, Cultural Villages/Residential Groups/Communes/Wards/Towns. The Decree clearly states that the Provincial People's Committee shall specify in detail the criteria for recognizing the titles; guide on how to evaluate and judge emulation titles. Such decentralization will be the basis for the city to issue specific criteria.
From decentralization to the city, the Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports is coordinating with districts, towns and related units to collect opinions from experts, local authorities and people to advise the city to issue specific regulations on standards for recognizing cultural titles. As a person directly involved in mobilizing, inspecting and supervising the implementation of building cultural life in localities, Head of the Department of Building Cultural Lifestyle and Family Bui Minh Hoang said: “There are many good ways of localities in building cultural environments such as: Models of green, clean and beautiful roads and alleys; smart village models; models of preserving and promoting heritage values, protecting the environment associated with tourism development... On this occasion, we will advise the city to include detailed regulations in recognizing cultural titles; or encourage localities to implement them. Thus, when implementing Decree 86/2023/ND-CP in practice, the construction of cultural life and cultural models will be elevated, bearing the characteristics of Hanoi.
Along with the construction of cultural models, the implementation of the Code of Conduct in public places is having a clear positive effect on the construction of Hanoi's culture and people. However, the creation of a cultural environment in the community still faces many difficulties, and the current difficulties are concentrated in large urban areas. In many places, each apartment building has up to several hundred households, equivalent in size to a residential group, but there is no corresponding cultural space or community living space. This poses a problem that Hanoi needs to solve soon.
According to nhandan.vn
Source: https://baophutho.vn/kien-tao-moi-truong-van-hoa-cho-cong-dong-220000.htm
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