Attempting to preserve culture of ethnic minorities
Ninh Hoa Town People’s Committee has recently held a class in traditional musical instruments (ma la, gongs, ching kok) for Raglai and E de people in the locality. 40 village patriarchs, village heads and members of musical groups in the town joined the class in two weeks. After the class, the learners will be trained more to be able to play and perform more songs with these traditional musical instruments. These learners will also be the key members of local musical clubs and groups aiming to preserve and develop the traditional cultural heritages of the ethnic minorities, according to Bui Thi Song Na – deputy head of Ninh Hoa Town Bureau of Culture and Information.
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Since the beginning of this year, the localities in the province have carried out many activities to preserve typical cultural heritages of the ethnic minorities. Khanh Son District has formed five musical groups of ethnic minorities; built three public bookcases in three communes; opened a class in lithopone; planned to restore Raglai people’s ceremony to express gratitude to parents. Khanh Vinh District successfully organized the festival demonstrating new-rice celebration of Raglai people; opened a class in ma la musical instrument. Cam Ranh City also held a ma la class.
The localities have built and renovated facilities for cultural activities and centers of culture and sports in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas.
Linking with tourism
The districts of Khanh Son, Khanh Vinh, Dien Khanh, Cam Lam, Ninh Hoa Town and Cam Ranh City were chosen to implement the project on preserving and promoting traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities linked with tourism development, under the national target program on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021 – 2025 period in the province. The localities have carried out many activities to implement the tasks assigned by the Provincial People’s Committee. These activities have also been linked with tourism development. Through festivals and contests on traditional culture, the localities encouraged the public, especially ethnic people to preserve the cultural characteristics and exploited their values for the sake of tourism development.
The provincial museum has collected documents of traditional intangible cultural heritages of ethnic minorities in the province. The provincial Department of Tourism in association with the provincial departments of agriculture and rural development and culture and sports, and related units to conduct a survey of tourism products in the districts of Khanh Son and Khanh Vinh and Ninh Hoa Town. The provincial Department of Tourism will cooperate with the people’s committees of Khanh Vinh District and Khanh Son District to open training courses on reception, housekeeping, table service, and food processing in tourism; classes in tour operation and tour guide skills.
In order for the traditional cultural heritages of the ethnic minorities to become tourism products, the localities have planned to purchase equipment for community houses, the venues for performances of cultural heritages serving tourists, in 29 hamlets. It is expected that in 2025, the ethnic minority people can introduce their traditional cultural heritages to tourists by themselves. This will help to preserve the cultural heritages sustainably and create a stable source of income for local people.
Giang Dinh
Translated by H.N
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