Preserving and promoting traditional cultural values is an important task for each ethnic group and locality. Recognizing this, many departments, sectors and localities have implemented solutions to preserve traditional culture. In particular, the transmission and increase of access to traditional culture for the younger generation are being focused on, thereby gradually arousing the love for traditional culture of the younger generation.
Many young people participate in traditional cultural activities at the Thanh Hoa Province Ethnic Culture Festival 2024.
Thanh Hoa has 7 ethnic groups living together. Each ethnic group has its own traditional cultural identity, from costumes, customs, beliefs to games, performances, etc. These cultural values have created richness and diversity in the colorful picture of ethnic groups. At the same time, they have become the identifying factor and also the soul of each ethnic group. However, in the current integration trend, these traditional cultural values are facing many challenges from the risk of fading away to dissolution due to cultural exchange. Because these traditional cultural values have not really attracted the majority of the young generation - the future owners of traditional culture.
To preserve and promote traditional cultural values, relevant sectors and localities have paid attention to implementing many cultural programs and have recorded positive results in the work of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values.
Attending the 20th Thanh Hoa Ethnic Culture Festival in 2024, viewers can feel the vitality as well as the diversity and uniqueness of Thanh culture. In the traditional cultural performances and competitions, not only artisans and actors participated, but many students and young people also actively contributed to the success of the festival. This shows that the young generation of Thanh has been and is interested in traditional culture.
Wearing their ethnic costumes, young men and women seem to understand more about traditional cultural values and their responsibility for preserving and promoting traditional cultural values. Le Ky Duyen, Muong ethnic group (Lang Chanh) shared: "Through the activities at the ethnic cultural festival, I understand more about the uniqueness of my ethnic culture. From costumes to dances and songs, everything has its own identity, unlike any other ethnic group. I realize that the young generation like me needs to pay more attention to traditional culture to preserve traditional culture forever."
Not only through the province's major cultural activities, but also local cultural activities have gradually attracted the participation of the younger generation. In Ngoc Lac district, local cultural activities have attracted a large number of people to participate. From the elderly in their 80s to the children, everyone has joined in the dances, performances, and gong sounds that have existed for generations in the spiritual and cultural life of the Muong people. This has made Ngoc Lac a bright spot in the work of teaching and attracting the younger generation to participate in traditional culture.
To achieve that result, the Party Committee and authorities at all levels in Ngoc Lac district have paid special attention to the work of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values. The district has issued a plan and implemented the Project to preserve, promote and develop the language, writing, costumes and traditional occupations of ethnic minorities in Thanh Hoa province in the district. At the same time, it focuses on teaching intangible cultural heritages to people and students. Every year, artisans such as Ms. Pham Thi Tang, Pham Thi Huong, Mr. Pham Vu Vuong regularly go to villages, hamlets and schools to teach pon pong, lullabies, gongs... to people and students. Luong Anh Tho, a student at Ngoc Lac Ethnic Boarding High School, shared: "After learning and studying with artisans about folk culture and traditional culture, I have become interested in ethnic dances and songs. I realize that these are spiritual cultural products that have been preserved by our ancestors for generations and that our young generation needs to preserve and promote them."
Talking about the students' participation in traditional culture, teacher Le Van Thao, Vice Principal of Ngoc Lac Boarding Ethnic High School, said: "Implementing the tasks of the education sector as well as the orientation of the locality, from 2017 to now, every year the school has coordinated with the locality to invite artisans to teach traditional culture to the school's students. After each lesson on traditional culture in extracurricular hours, students write their own feelings and perceptions about the learning content and traditional culture. At the same time, the school has organized many activities for students to practice and perform traditional culture. In May 2024, the school will establish a traditional culture club for students to participate. With these activities, love for traditional culture and love for the nation are gradually nurtured in the souls and perceptions of the students, helping them to be aware of their own responsibility in practicing and preserving traditional culture".
The fact that more and more young people know and practice traditional culture shows that preserving and promoting traditional cultural values through cultural and artistic activities in localities and schools is an effective direction that needs to be widely replicated. Along with that, preserving and promoting traditional cultural values is a long-term task, requiring the cooperation of the entire political system and the community. Therefore, sectors and localities need to continue to promote propaganda and mobilize all resources to organize folk cultural and artistic activities and teach traditional culture.
Article and photos: Thuy Linh
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