(Dan Tri Newspaper) - The relief castings on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace have been officially inscribed on the UNESCO Asia- Pacific Regional Documentary Heritage List.
On the afternoon of November 23, the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province held a ceremony to receive the UNESCO certificate recognizing the relief castings on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace as a regional documentary heritage in the Asia- Pacific region.
Previously, at the 10th session of the Memory of the World Programme for the Asia-Pacific region held in Mongolia, the relief castings on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace were inscribed on the UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Documentary Heritage List.
Thua Thien Hue receives the Certificate of Recognition for Documentary Heritage: The relief castings on nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace (Photo: Ngoc Hieu).
Speaking at the reception ceremony, Mr. Nguyen Van Phuong, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue province, said that the Nine Tripods were cast in 1835 and completed in 1837 during the reign of Emperor Minh Mang. They are considered a vivid visual encyclopedia of Vietnam at that time.
The Nine Tripods were recognized as national treasures by the Prime Minister in 2012.
UNESCO's recognition of the relief castings on the nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace as a World Documentary Heritage once again affirms the stature and historical value of the Nine Cauldrons in the treasury of human cultural heritage.
According to Mr. Phuong, Thua Thien Hue has the honor of being the first locality in the country to have a heritage site recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage site (the Complex of Monuments of the Hue Imperial City, 1993) and also the place that possesses the first intangible heritage of Vietnam to be included in the list of Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (Hue Royal Court Music, 2003).
To date, Thua Thien Hue is the locality with the highest number of World Heritage sites in Vietnam, with 8 sites recognized by UNESCO.
The Nine Dynastic Urns in the Hue Imperial Palace (Photo: Vi Thao)
Jonathan Wallace Baker, Head of the UNESCO Office in Vietnam, stated that the relief carvings on the Nine Dynastic Urns preserve the value of cultural exchange and interaction between Vietnamese society and other East Asian countries. This is a documentary heritage of humanity that needs to be preserved, protected, accessed comprehensively and permanently, and properly recognized.
According to Jonathan Wallace Baker, Thua Thien Hue province has performed well and achieved remarkable results in heritage conservation.
The inscription of the reliefs on the nine bronze cauldrons in the Hue Imperial Palace has raised the total number of documentary heritage sites in Vietnam to 10, including three World Documentary Heritage sites and seven Asia-Pacific Documentary Heritage sites.
Source: https://dantri.com.vn/du-lich/cuu-dinh-duoc-unesco-cong-nhan-di-san-tu-lieu-20241123210550626.htm
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