Khe Coc Island - a place to recreate the community life of ancient Trang An residents

On February 5, at Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, Ninh Binh Province, Xuan Truong Construction Enterprise organized the experience program "Khe Coc Cultural Space" - a place to recreate the community activities of ancient Trang An residents.

Cultural space at Khe Coc Island, Ninh Binh. (Photo: YEN TRINH)

Attending the event were comrade Doan Minh Huan, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of Ninh Binh Provincial Party Committee.

This is one of the activities towards the 10th anniversary of Trang An being recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage; at the same time, promoting the image, outstanding global values of landscape, geology, geomorphology and culture of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex, towards the goal of building Ninh Binh into a Millennium Heritage City and a centrally-run city by 2030.

At the program, delegates visited and experienced the exhibition space, recreating the cultural life of prehistoric residents after the sea retreat, when the natural environment in the alluvial valley along the stream created favorable conditions for people to initially settle, exploit and create rich forms of cultural activities, interwoven between valley residence and cave shelter, between initial production and natural exploitation.

In the harsh and violent transformation of the landscape, prehistoric people here still adapted, developed, molded, built and created outstanding global cultural values. Humans participated in shaping the landscape and environment around Trang An, and vice versa, the environment also affected many aspects of human production, residence and cultural creation, in which the initial settlement style and community cultural activities in the valley alluvial plains, next to streams, near caves are prominent features.

Trang An has been invaded and transformed by the sea many times. The changes in terrain, geology, and geomorphology over a long period of millions of years have created a masterpiece of natural architecture and landscape, “strange mountains, beautiful waters, and fairy caves”.

Mr. Nguyen Cao Tan, Deputy Director of Ninh Binh Province Department of Tourism , said that the restoration and reenactment of the cultural life of the ancient residents of Trang An on Khe Coc Island aims to provide visitors with a vivid, realistic perspective of human life in the past; at the same time, helping today's and future generations understand and appreciate valuable historical lessons to always know how to protect the living environment, organize human life in harmony with nature, and find ways to adapt to today's climate change.

The Department of Tourism hopes that in the near future, when Khe Coc Island is completed and put into operation, it will become an attractive tourist destination imbued with the cultural content of the ancient capital, going back further into the past, from the prehistoric period to the stages of formation of the capital of Dai Co Viet State.

Delegates visit and experience the exhibition space, recreating the life of the ancient Trang An community on Khe Coc island. (Photo: YEN TRINH)

Trang An is an intact chronicle of environmental change and human responses in the past, preserving the habitation traditions of prehistoric people. (Photo: YEN TRINH)

Performance on Khe Coc Island. (Photo: YEN TRINH)

The prehistoric cultural story at Trang An epitomizes the global process of human response to post-glacial sea level rise in the region, to the extent that it can be considered a model for comparison with other sites in the region that have been subjected to the same impacts. (Photo: YEN TRINH)

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