Intangible cultural beauty in the heart of the city

Thanh Hoa City lies in the shadow of the Ma River, embracing in its heart many values. The scenic spots, historical and cultural layers intertwined have become rich, diverse, unique and attractive tourism potential that few places have. On the journey of construction and development, the city has always paid attention to and focused on the work of preserving and promoting traditional historical and cultural values, considering them as a fulcrum, a source of strong internal strength, promoting socio-economic development.

Thai Mieu Festival of the Later Le Dynasty, Dong Ve Ward.

Walking around the city, visitors can visit famous landscapes, relics, and cultural and spiritual works such as: Ham Rong - Ma River area; Thai Mieu of Hau Le Dynasty; Duong Dinh Nghe Temple; Mausoleum of Le Trung Nghia District Chief; President Ho Chi Minh Memorial Cultural Area; Le Loi Monument; Lam Son Square; Hoi An Park; Thanh Quang Park; Truc Lam Ham Rong Zen Monastery; Memorial area for teachers and students who sacrificed their lives on the Ma River dike construction site; Victory Youth Volunteer Monument, Thanh Hoa Provincial Museum; Hoang Long Museum of Antiquities, Dai Bi Pagoda, Thanh Ha Pagoda, Tang Phuc Pagoda, Dong Son Ancient Temple, Nguyet Vien Temple...

Associated with the system of relics and cultural and spiritual works are traditional festivals, games and folk performances. According to preliminary statistics, Thanh Hoa City currently has more than 40 traditional festivals; festivals that attract visitors from all over the province to attend, offer incense and visit such as: Thai Mieu festival of the Later Le Dynasty; Duc Thanh Ca temple festival, Dong Son ancient village; Tong Duy Tan temple festival; Chu Van Luong temple festival; Phu Ba festival; Ai Son temple festival; Duong Dinh Nghe temple festival; Nguyet Vien communal house festival...

The historical and cultural picture of the city is highlighted with colors and bustling sounds by the presence of many unique games and performances, typically: Tu Huan performance (Hoang Quang commune); the word running game "Thien - Ha - Thai - Binh", the folk game of blindfolded top tossing (Quang Thang ward); the tune "Ho song Ma" (including wards and communes along both banks of the Ma river such as: Nam Ngan, Ham Rong, Tao Xuyen, Long Anh, Hoang Quang, Thieu Khanh, Thieu Duong); human chess, card games, to tom, card games (Dong Ve ward)... In recent years, every time the city celebrates the New Year, the City People's Committee organizes the program "Old Tet in the ancient village" in the space of Dong Son ancient village, Ham Rong ward with many exciting activities, attracting tourists.

According to the tourism development zoning in the tourism development strategy of Thanh Hoa province to 2025, with a vision to 2030, Thanh Hoa city is identified as one of the three key tourism development clusters of the province and becomes an urban tourism area, historical - revolutionary tourism, archaeological and historical tourism. The city identifies the task of developing tourism products that must be unique, attractive, of high quality, and imbued with local characteristics.

Deeply aware of that, in recent years, closely following its functions and tasks, the Thanh Hoa City Department of Culture has made constant efforts to innovate its contents and forms of activities, contributing significantly to the preservation and promotion of traditional cultural values, increasingly meeting the needs of enjoying culture and art, improving the lives of urban residents. Accordingly, the Department of Culture has proactively advised the City People's Committee to develop programs, plans and effectively organize the implementation of the viewpoints, policies, tasks and solutions of the Party, State, province and city in the fields of culture - arts, tourism, physical education - sports... with many rich and diverse contents and forms, ensuring practicality, efficiency, safety, savings, and suitability with the cultural lifestyle, traditions, customs, practices and practical conditions of each locality, agency and unit.

The city's cultural sector presides over, links and coordinates with localities and units to organize training classes to practice folk games and performances, preserve and promote traditional cultural values. Recently, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Provincial Cultural - Cinema Center coordinated with the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa City, the Center for Culture, Information, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa City to open a training class on "Supporting the practice and practice of Tu Huan and Thien Ha Thai Binh in Thanh Hoa City - 2024" with the participation of 100 students who are artisans, cultural - artistic cores, and teenagers from Hoang Quang commune and Quang Thang ward. During the 3 days of the class, the students were instructed and imparted knowledge and experience on organizing and operating grassroots art troupes; choreographed and staged 2 performances... Through the training course, the core art teams of the 2 wards and communes were able to exchange, learn, improve their skills, build a core force for the grassroots cultural movement, thereby doing a good job of preserving and promoting intangible cultural values ​​to serve tourism development and community cultural activities...

Along with that, the city's cultural sector has done a good job of developing mass cultural and artistic movements; effectively promoting public cultural activity spots, becoming unique tourism products of the city (Hoi An ancient town, Phan Chu Trinh walking street space, Weekend rendezvous program, Old Tet in ancient villages...) contributing to creating more space for folk games and performances to have the opportunity to exchange, perform, spread, and promote beauty to the public; connecting indigenous cultural values...

In addition to the achieved results, the work of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values ​​in general, and intangible culture in particular, in Thanh Hoa City is still facing many difficulties and challenges in terms of funding, human resources, facilities, and the impact of strong urbanization... Mr. Hoang Cao Thang, Director of the Center for Culture, Information, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa City, said: “Thanh Hoa City is striving to develop tourism into a strong economic sector, with the proportion of tourism increasingly high in the GDP structure, creating a driving force for socio-economic development. To achieve that goal, the preservation and promotion of traditional cultural values ​​in general need to be paid more attention and invested with the joint efforts and contributions of the whole society. Because those traditional historical and cultural values ​​are valuable resources for tourism development, an important source of endogenous strength, and a driving force for socio-economic development.

Article and photos: Dang Khoa

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