Honoring those who "keep the fire" for traditional culture of ethnic groups

The "fire keeper" of traditional culture

The conference was held to encourage village elders, village chiefs, and prestigious people who have made great contributions to the preservation and maintenance of traditional cultural values. At the same time, this was also an opportunity to strengthen regional solidarity and community cohesion among delegates from different ethnic groups across the country.

At the conference, nearly 112 delegates were honored, including village elders, village chiefs, artisans, and prestigious people representing 57 localities and 16 delegates representing 16 ethnic groups regularly working in the Village.

Art performance to open the conference

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy said that our country has 54 ethnic groups, each ethnic group in the big family of Vietnamese ethnic groups has its own precious traditional values, unique characteristics; contributing to creating a colorful cultural picture, rich in humanistic values ​​of the Vietnamese ethnic community. The cultural identity of ethnic groups is crystallized from traditional cultural values ​​passed down from generation to generation, a valuable heritage not only of a land, people or locality but also a priceless asset of the nation.

During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh once said: "Each ethnic group is a beautiful flower, our whole nation is a beautiful flower garden". For that reason, over the years, our Party and State have always paid attention to and consistently affirmed that the culture of ethnic minorities is an important part of Vietnamese culture. Preserving, conserving and promoting the traditional cultural identity of ethnic minorities is a political, economic and social task of special importance in building and developing the country. Village elders, village chiefs, artisans and prestigious people of ethnic groups are the core elements playing a particularly important role in mobilizing and passing on to their children and compatriots the precious cultural treasures of the nation.

Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy speaks at the conference

"Therefore, to continue affirming the Party and State's attention to the position, role and responsibility of those who keep the fire of traditional culture, organizing the conference is an opportunity to honor the extremely valuable cultural values ​​and heritages of the nation; honor and praise the contributions of cultural entities who are preserving, promoting, spreading and teaching traditional cultural knowledge and folk arts from generation to generation; those who unite the community to keep the fire in villages, hamlets, and hamlets, passing it on to future generations of the country" - Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy affirmed.

In addition, through this conference, the Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism hopes to receive many comments and suggestions for practical solutions suitable for their ethnic groups from village elders, village chiefs, artisans, and prestigious people in preserving and promoting traditional cultural values. Thereby, the cultural values ​​of ethnic groups are preserved and promoted, contributing to the construction and development of the country in association with the following contents: Identifying traditional cultural contents that need to be preserved, restored, and maintained; choosing priorities in preserving and promoting traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic groups; identifying forms and solutions to preserve and promote traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic groups in community life and social life; proposing specific mechanisms to preserve and promote traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic groups from the central to grassroots levels...

Deputy Minister Trinh Thi Thuy presented certificates of merit from the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism to village elders, village chiefs, artisans and prestigious people.

On that basis, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will listen to and absorb comments and suggestions. From there, research and propose policies, develop specific and practical conservation contents and solutions; gradually develop and submit for promulgation specific mechanisms and policies to preserve ethnic cultures, contributing to effectively preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, avoiding the risk of loss and fading of national identity. At the same time, improve the level of cultural enjoyment for ethnic minorities, help them increasingly raise their sense of responsibility in preserving their own ethnic culture, contributing to stabilizing and developing the economy, culture, society, security and national defense of ethnic minority areas in the coming time.

Need more attention from the State

Also at the conference, village elders, village chiefs, artisans, and prestigious people shared good experiences, good solutions, and proposed recommendations in implementing the work of preserving, maintaining, and promoting the cultural values ​​of the locality.

Meritorious Artist Tran Thi Nam (San Diu ethnic group, Vinh Phuc province)

Sharing at the conference, Meritorious Artist Tran Thi Nam (San Diu ethnic group, Vinh Phuc province) said: The San Diu ethnic group today still retains its unique features, typically rich and diverse folk cultural genres such as: Traditional costumes; Soong Co singing, Suong Ca, Hat Ca, Lullaby, Cau May dancing... Those songs, dances or rituals are always imbued with cultural values, often summarizing truths, educating faith and morality.

In particular, in recent years, the San Diu ethnic group has always respected, been proud of and honored the promotion of their unique cultural values ​​associated with community tourism to illuminate, spread widely, and integrate and develop with the Vietnamese ethnic group across the country.

In the coming time, to preserve the beauty in the cultural life of the San Diu people, Meritorious Artist Tran Thi Nam hopes that the Party and the State will pay more attention so that the San Diu people, Vinh Phuc province in particular and the whole country in general, continue to maintain and develop their cultural identity. Issue policies and have mechanisms and policies to support funding for communes in ethnic minority areas to build centers to preserve and develop the culture of the San Diu people. In particular, there should be funding to support clubs and artisans teaching Soong Co singing. In addition, it is necessary to focus on developing community tourism in combination with developing spiritual and ecological cultural tourism.

Meritorious Artist Y Sim E Ban (Ede ethnic group, Dak Nong province)

Sharing the same view, Meritorious Artist Y Sim E Ban (Ede ethnic group, Dak Nong province) said that, with ethnic minority areas, low and backward educational and economic levels have caused great obstacles in preserving and developing the traditional culture of the nation. In addition, besides the lack of financial support policies, the collection, staging, exploitation, preservation and promotion of ethnic cultural capital have not really received proper attention and investment. The organization of traditional festivals has not yet met the current needs of the people.

Thereby, Meritorious Artist Y Sim E Ban recommends that there should be specific guidance soon on measures to manage, preserve and promote cultural values ​​in traditional festivals, customs, practices and cuisine of the Ede people in particular and Vietnamese ethnic groups in general. Furthermore, it is necessary to strengthen the investigation, survey and classification of traditional folk art forms to implement solutions to preserve, restore and promote specific values.

Meritorious Artist Sin Van Doi (Mang ethnic group, Lai Chau province) hopes that the State will have more policies to treat and encourage spiritually and materially village elders, village chiefs, artisans, prestigious people, and cultural officials in especially difficult areas and ethnic minority areas. This will contribute to stimulating the creativity of each individual./.

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