Since the spring of 1993, our State has emphasized the importance of culture in the cause of national renewal in the face of challenges and opportunities that the nation is facing, in order to make the cause of national construction and development successful.
Culture in Sino-Vietnamese means to become more beautiful. Culture is all the material and spiritual values created by humans to make life better every day.
According to G.Festistete, culture is the way people live and the way people think (What we do and what we think).
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The issue of building generations of healthy citizens with courage, intelligence and morality to maintain and develop a culture with national identity is always considered important by countries as a driving force to promote social stability and development.
In the famous work "Primitive Culture" 1871, EB Tylor (1832-1917): Culture is a combination of knowledge, beliefs, arts, morals, laws, customs, etc. This concept shows that culture includes all the abilities and habits that each person learns and accumulates.
Culture is the quintessence of material and spiritual values that humans have accumulated through the process of interacting with nature and society; in the process of living, thinking and acting, humans are both creative subjects and products of culture.
The culture of the Vietnamese people is the language and writing; the understanding and level of education; the way of life including ethics, customs, practices, beliefs, festivals; the traditional occupations built and created by the Vietnamese community in the historical process of Vietnamese culture. And the quintessence of cultural values is passed down from generation to generation to become Vietnamese cultural heritage, contributing to the formation of the cultural identity of the Vietnamese people.
National cultural identity is the internal characteristics, the unique nuances of origin, associated with the characteristics of the subject that become the source; is the face, foundation, and essence of any culture; helps distinguish the culture of one nation from another.
National cultural identity is not only original but also progressive; original is the indigenous cultural layer; progressive is the exogenous cultural layer resulting from cultural exchange throughout the history of Vietnamese culture. In the process of cultural exchange, there is a process of cultural reception and there will be good cultural features; at the same time, there will be bad cultural features.
Vietnamese national cultural identity is an invaluable asset of the Vietnamese people, creating a deeply distinctive feature between the Vietnamese people and other peoples in the region and the world .
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We need to know how to preserve Vietnamese cultural identity, because national cultural identity is the profound quintessence that creates the unique characteristics of each nation, makes the name of the country, makes the culture of each country different, creates the difference between this country and other countries.
Without or losing national cultural identity, a nation will be uprooted and mixed; therefore, it is necessary to cherish, preserve, conserve and promote the cultural identity of the Vietnamese nation. Honoring the cultural identity of the Vietnamese nation is to make the traditional cultural values of the nation increasingly clear in the international cultural arena in the era of international cultural exchange and integration.
So how to preserve the cultural identity of the Vietnamese people?
In the history of cultural development in each country, we realize that national cultural identity has both traditional values, an endogenous culture, an indigenous cultural layer, and foreign cultural values, an exogenous culture, a cultural layer acquired through exchange with the region and the world.
Preserving the traditional national cultural identity means knowing how to inherit and promote traditional cultural values, knowing how to select and make foreign cultural elements carry the "quality" of one's own culture, becoming one's own cultural values, the goal is to enrich the cultural identity of the Vietnamese nation. Selectively absorbing the quintessence of world culture is a process of contacting and receiving the good values of the cultures of other nations in the world, making the good values of other nations consistent with the thoughts, feelings, concepts, customs and practices of one's own nation in order to enrich the national culture.
In the context of increasingly strong international cultural exchange, the issue of selectively absorbing the quintessence of world culture plays an increasingly important role because it will help the cultures of nations blend together, making the world become a common community, more sympathetic to each other and helping each other when interacting with each other, behaving better with each other, etc.
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We need to further raise awareness that cultural exchange is a two-way process of giving and receiving, the result of which is a richer national culture. Giving is presenting, promoting the good cultural values of one's own nation in the process of exchange and integration. Receiving is absorbing the quintessence of world culture to enrich the cultural identity of one's own nation and should only selectively and very carefully absorb to obtain the best cultural values of other countries. The goal is to open the nation to receive the best, the best in both material and spiritual cultural values of friendly countries in the world with a spirit of goodwill and progress, with a civilized and friendly attitude to integrate and move towards integration with the international community.
What does the young generation of Long An province do to preserve local culture?
As a land rich in historical and cultural traditions, it is facing challenges and opportunities in the process of integration and development. In that context, the role of the younger generation becomes more important than ever, especially in preserving and promoting local cultural values.
With a liberal spirit, generous nature, high practicality, dynamism, creativity and sense of responsibility, the young generation needs to clearly perceive their mission in:
- Research and appreciate: Deeply understand history, culture, customs, practices, traditional festivals, folk art forms, etc. Understanding is a solid foundation for building pride and love for the homeland.
- Preservation and promotion: Actively participate in cultural activities, festivals, folk art clubs, historical relic preservation projects, etc. to preserve and promote traditional cultural values. Schools need to take the lead in understanding national and provincial historical and cultural relics.
- Creativity and dissemination: Applying modern technology and social networks to promote culture to domestic and international friends. Creative products with strong cultural identity will contribute to spreading the good values of the homeland.
- Inheritance and transmission: Learn and inherit cultural quintessence from previous generations and pass it on to future generations. Participating in traditional craft classes, talks about local culture, etc. will help preserve precious cultural values.
In addition, the young generation needs to demonstrate through concrete actions: Building documents on local ethnic culture; organizing competitions to learn about history and culture in schools and organizations; establishing clubs and groups on folk arts (don ca tai tu, ho ve, ...), traditional crafts (weaving mats, making drums, ...); building websites and social networks to introduce unique cultural features both spiritually and materially; organizing cultural and tourism events associated with traditional festivals ( Lam chay festival in Tam Vu town , don ca tai tu Nam Bo in all villages, ...); participating in projects to preserve local historical and cultural relics.
Culture is the invaluable asset of every nation, the identity of every land. The young generation, as the future owners of the country, should join hands to preserve and promote traditional cultural values, contributing to building a rich, civilized and deeply national-identified South: Respectful of chivalry, tolerant, diligent, curious, and always remembering to preserve our unique cultural treasures./.
Associate Professor, Dr. Dang Thi Phuong Phi
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