Many heritages have been lost or are at risk of being lost. In this situation, the work of preserving and promoting the value of cultural heritage has become an extremely urgent task.
Heritage in the digital age
Digitizing heritage is an inevitable trend in preserving and promoting heritage values in the digital age. In 2 years (2017-2018), Thanh Hoa province has deployed updating and using software to manage tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the province. At the same time, plans, projects, and 3D digitization projects of artifacts and national treasures have been submitted to the Provincial People's Committee for approval and are currently being implemented; building a website with categories of news activities, photo reports, exhibitions, etc. to help people more conveniently visit, research, and learn about heritage anywhere, anytime.
However, up to now, the digitization has only stopped at digitizing large tangible cultural heritages such as: Ho Dynasty Citadel Heritage, Lam Kinh Historical Relic. The digitization of intangible cultural heritage is still limited. The application of information technology and digitization of intangible heritage has not been effectively exploited. This can be seen when we go online to search for festivals and unique performances of Thanh Hoa province, the results are quite poor. Websites and information pages of localities also limit the posting of images and videos about local cultural heritages. Even searching for information about festivals on the Festival Information Portal of the Department of Grassroots Culture (lehoi.com.vn) only shows general data such as: 10,354 traditional festivals, 687 cultural festivals, 79 professional festivals... Information about a specific festival is difficult to find.
In today's society, intangible cultural heritages, especially festivals, play an increasingly important role in social life, are a form of cultural activity that unites the community, becomes an endogenous strength, a driving force for economic development and a solid foundation for people's spiritual life. This is demonstrated by the fact that many festivals, folk performances, games and plays are restored and attract a large number of people to participate. In the face of that trend, the digitization of intangible cultural heritages has become an inevitable task to increase the "lifespan" of the heritage, preserve the original elements for the next generation, and especially promote and introduce unique features to the majority of people.
To realize the task of digitizing intangible cultural heritages, especially festivals, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued and implemented the Project "Digitizing festival data in Vietnam". The project aims to collect basic information to review and evaluate the current situation to serve the management, preservation and promotion of festival values; enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of State management of festivals; systematize the database in managing festival activities and exploit and provide information quickly and effectively...
In that general trend, Thanh Hoa province will have to promote the digitalization of heritage in the coming time. Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Pham Nguyen Hong said: We will continue to do a good job of advising the Provincial People's Committee to direct departments, branches and localities to promote the synchronous digitalization of tangible and intangible cultural heritages to achieve the common goal in the Program to Digitize Vietnamese Cultural Heritage for the period 2021-2030. Along with that, strengthen propaganda and dissemination of programs and projects on digital transformation on mass media. Continue to update heritages and relics into the industry's management software, promote them on the province's Smart Tourism Information Portal to build a national database system on cultural heritage on a unified digital technology platform, serving the work of archiving, managing, researching, preserving, exploiting, promoting heritage, promoting sustainable tourism development...
Innovation creates breakthroughs
In recent times, Thanh Hoa province has attracted many tourists not only because of its beautiful natural landscapes, but also because of the unique features in festivals and performances of local and ethnic groups. Such as the unique sacredness of the Ba Trieu Temple festival with the palanquin procession - rotating palanquin. Or the impressive, vividness of the masks, the "unique" dances in the Xuan Pha performance...
However, to create a more sustainable and breakthrough development in the work of preserving and promoting the value of heritage, raising awareness and responsibility of cultural staff and people in protecting and practicing heritage is considered an important task. Because cultural heritage needs to live in its own cultural environment, not a "mass" cultural environment. And, the practice of heritage needs to be carefully considered, at the right time, in the right space, to avoid distorting the value and meaning of heritage. At the same time, it is necessary to actively innovate the way of operating and organizing cultural activities to harmonize between ensuring the original elements of heritage and the adaptability and variability of culture.
Thanh Hoa is a locality with a large number of intangible cultural heritages, and is also home to the heritage of the Mother Goddess Worship of the Vietnamese and Mo Muong people listed by UNESCO and the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritages, so the province also needs to have solutions to link in the management and exploitation of heritages. Because, linking heritage in preserving and promoting heritage values is an inevitable trend.
However, the current difficulty is that the State still does not have a mechanism for managing inter-regional and inter-provincial heritages and regulations for expanding community participation according to UNESCO's provisions. Therefore, localities only manage, protect and promote the value of intangible cultural heritages within their management areas; the linkage in preserving and promoting intangible cultural values is very loose, almost non-existent. Meanwhile, the linkage of cultural heritages is considered a breakthrough in the management, protection and exploitation of heritages. Because intangible cultural heritages are formed, nurtured and developed in the community. The linkage between heritages, the linkage of communities and regions will help the heritages to have a place to live and be promoted. In particular, the linkage will help assess and identify the characteristics of each heritage to have appropriate protection and exploitation measures.
Article and photos: Thuy Linh
Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/thoi-suc-song-moi-cho-di-san-228687.htm
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