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Deputy Director of Dak Lak provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Lai Duc Dai speaks at the event. |
The event saw the participation of artisans and village patriarchs from the M’nong ethnic group in Dak Lak province, who are the owner of the heritage.
In his speech, Deputy Director of Dak Lak provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism Lai Duc Dai informed that the province is home to 49 ethnic minority groups. The province is seen as a small Vietnam in which ethnic groups live in solidarity, and make contribution to building a wealthy, civilized Dak Lak with unique, rich, diverse, unified highland cultural features.
According to the official, over the past years, alongside socio-economic development, the provincial Party Committee has paid due attention to preserving cultural beauties of local ethnic minority groups.
The province has so far provided 169 sets of gongs, and 723 sets of traditional clothes to local villages. It has also opened 128 classes on gong playing, restored over 140 rituals and festivals with close attachment to gongs. In addition, it organizes two gong performance programs a month to serve both local people and visitors and other cultural activities on preserving national cultural heritage.
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An overview of the seminar |
At the seminar, delegates worked out useful solutions to maintain, preserve, promote and effectively exploit the heritage while developing tourism, thus securing sustainable income, improving local people’s spiritual life.
Discussion contents and solutions mapped out in speeches will be used as references to build projects to preserve and bring into play M’nong people’s longevity celebration – the national intangible cultural heritage in the coming time.
Translated by Mai Huong