With a great passion for national art, outstanding artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan in Voi area, Ba Hang Doi town in Lac Thuy district, has developed and promoted a Muong ethnic cultural space with over 2,000 artifacts which are familiar in the daily life in the Muong ethnic people.
Outstanding artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan and artisans from the Muong cultural heritage preservation club in Ba Hang Doi town.
Tuan has collected thousands of rattan, hand-woven bamboo, pottery, bronze, and stoneware products which are cultural products in the Muong ethnic people’s life and are facing risk of falling into obvillion.
Besides, he has restored Muong stilt houses, studied the ethnic group’s identity and customs in the past and at the present in vegetarianism, weddings, festivals, dancing and singing in order to preserve, spread and educate young generation about regional national culture.
Spanning an area of 750 sqm in Mau Linh Son Ngoc temple, the model of the Muong cultural space displays over 2,000 items in the life of Muong people including gong, costumes, brocade blankets, horns, fangs of animals, ethnic musical instruments, cultural books, woodwork, and bronze utencils.
Tuan is also the founder of the Muong cultural heritage preservation club in Ba Hang Doi town which attempts to create a meaningful playground while preserving and promoting the good values of racial cultural identity, arousing passion, researching and educating traditional cultural values of the Muong ethnic group to young generations, contributing to the protection of the Vietnamese cultural heritage.
With vibrant, practical and attractive activities, more than one year after its establishment, the club has attracted 235 members of many different age groups.
joining the club, members will be taught various subjects such as gong culture, Muong folk dances and songs as well as the Muong language, especially for youngsters.
With endless efforts, artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan was awarded the title of Excellent Artisan in the field of social practices and beliefs in 2022.
With numerous contributions to the preservation and promotion of national cultural identity, he is also an outstanding example in charity and social security work in the locality.
On November 6, the residential area, Nam Thai hamlet, Doan Ket commune (Yen Thuy) organized the Great National Solidarity Festival and celebrated the 94th anniversary of the traditional day of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (November 18, 1930 - November 18, 2024). There was the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Tien Sinh, the Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, the Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Commission, and the leaders of the appropriate departments and branches of the province and Yen Thuy district.
The authorities and community in Yen Thuy district are dedicated to preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of ethnic groups in the locality. Yen Thuy is home to seven ethnic groups, with the Muong making up over 69% of the population.
A great national solidarity festival was held in Ngai hamlet, Thach Yen commune, Cao Phong district, on November 8. Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province Bui Van Khanh, and Colonel Trinh Duc Thiem, Commander of the provincial Military Command, attended the event.
A great national unity festival was held in Cau Son hamlet in Nhuan Trach commune of Luong Son district on November 10.
The organising board for the Hoa Binh Culture and Tourism Week 2024 has officially released its press statement.
The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province held a press conference on November 5 to announce the details of its upcoming 2024 Culture-Tourism Week.
