Champa culture in Thua Thien Hue with the system of remaining relics and artifacts clearly reflects a long-standing historical development period, those values are extremely important factors creating a diverse and unique cultural appearance. The book includes 20 articles by 23 authors, focusing on 3 parts: Imprints of Champa culture in Thua Thien Hue; Dai Viet - Champa relations in history; Promoting the value of the Champa relic system in Thua Thien Hue.
Since 1306, the land of Chau O and Chau Ly was incorporated into Dai Viet territory. The presence of Vietnamese people in this land created the premise for Dai Viet culture to have a stronger influence on the South. When the Vietnamese people came to live and settle in the new land, they had a smart way of life, respected, inherited and promoted the cultural achievements left by the Champa residents.
According to Dr. Phan Tien Dung, Chairman of the Thua Thien Hue Historical Sciences Association, from the mid-16th century onwards, when the Nguyen Lords carried out the Southern expansion, the exchange and assimilation of Vietnamese - Cham culture entered a new phase. Nguyen Hoang and his successors gradually turned Thuan Hoa into an independent land in terms of politics, military, territory, economy, culture and society to create a Dang Trong distinct from Dang Ngoai. From the initial borderland, Thuan Hoa - Phu Xuan became the capital of the Nguyen Lords in the new land of Dang Trong, which was the premise for the Vietnamese to continue to expand their territory to the vast land to the South. Since King Quang Trung, then King Gia Long established the capital of Phu Xuan - Thuan Hoa, Hue became the capital of a unified Vietnam, a place where the country's quintessence of the past converged and spread.
During the coexistence, there was coexistence and cultural exchange between the two ethnic groups Viet - Cham, and gradually the Vietnamese people adopted the unique cultural features of the Cham people to create their own culture in the newly conquered land. With its "hinge" position, the historical junction of Viet - Cham, Thua Thien Hue is a land that preserves many unique Cham cultural vestiges in art, diverse in genres, and aesthetic values of the "Southward expansion" process of Dai Viet residents, of coexistence and cultural exchange between Viet - Cham.
In Hue culture, Champa cultural heritage is a very deep cultural sediment layer, one of the elements with a very special position, contributing to the formation of Hue cultural identity. According to researcher Nguyen Xuan Hoa, former Director of the Department of Culture and Information of Thua Thien Hue, the coexistence between Vietnamese and Cham people belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian language family has created the unique features of Hue dialect. Although Hue people do not borrow Cham words as much as they borrow Sino-Vietnamese words, the original Cham language elements create unique features for Hue language. Sometimes Hue people are surprised when they hear linguistic researchers say that they are speaking Cham with a broken accent, such as: Nở: ay (Cham language: nu); Ri: this (Cham language: rey); Tê: that, that (Cham language: têh); Úi: ửi chả! (Cham language: uy); Eo ơi (Cham language: eh ooh); Bông: hoa (Cham language: ponga); Ghe: small boat (Cham language: gai); - Bush: clump (Cham language: bul)”.
Thua Thien Hue is one of the areas that still preserves and conserves many unique relics and artifacts related to Champa cultural heritage. Most of these artifacts have high artistic value and are diverse in type with specific origins, contributing to proving the existence of Brahmanical temples in the Central region during the process of absorbing diverse cultures of the Champa kingdom, in which the influence of Indian culture is a prominent feature of this period.
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