Carrying out the task of preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities (EMs) associated with tourism development, in recent years, Ninh Hoa town has implemented many specific activities, paying much attention to practicing, performing, and teaching gong and gong instruments to the Ede people living in the area.
Extend the sound of gongs and gongs
The People's Committee of Ninh Hoa town has just issued a plan to organize a training course to teach ethnic minorities how to use and perform gongs and ma la musical instruments. Specifically, from August to mid-September, the training course will be held in Ninh Tay commune, with 40 village elders, village chiefs, members of the village art troupes, folk artists, civil servants working in cultural affairs, etc. participating. The students will be instructed by folk artists and excellent artists on the methods and techniques of using gongs and gongs of the Ede people.
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| Ede people in Ninh Tay commune practice gongs during the water wharf worship ceremony. Photo: Archive. |
According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hung - Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Ninh Hoa town, opening classes to teach the use of gongs and gongs of ethnic minorities aims to make these musical instruments more popular in the cultural and spiritual life of the people. Thereby, contributing to preserving the traditional cultural identity of ethnic minorities in Ninh Tay commune. This is also one of the solutions to improve the material and spiritual life of the people, especially ethnic minorities. From there, gradually build typical cultural products, associated with local tourism development, attracting and meeting the needs of tourists when coming to the town.
After 1 month of attending the class, those who are taught can use and perform gongs and gongs to serve the mass art movement and religious festivals in the community. Each student will be the core to contribute to preserving the traditional cultural values in the locality where they reside. “Ninh Tay commune has 7 villages, of which 4 villages have a large Ede population: Buon Lac, Buon Sim, Buon Tuong, Buon Dung. Every year, these villages still organize gong and gong performances to serve the people. In particular, in the first days of the new year, the villages often organize a water wharf worship ceremony lasting from 1 to 3 days and the sound of gongs resounds in each village. The town opening a gong playing class in the commune is an opportunity for the locality to have more people who know how to use the musical instruments of their ancestors. From there, it contributes to prolonging the sound of gongs and gongs in the life of the Ede people today and tomorrow”, said Mr. Y Hy - Secretary of the Party Committee of Ninh Tay commune.
Preserve and promote comprehensively
In December 2022, Ninh Hoa town issued a plan to implement the Project "Preserving and promoting the fine traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities associated with tourism development" for the period 2021 - 2025. Accordingly, the locality set out 14 specific tasks to preserve, conserve and promote the cultural values of ethnic minorities in the town. In particular, focusing on surveying, inventorying, collecting and documenting the traditional cultural heritage of ethnic minorities; organizing the preservation and promotion of the water wharf worship ceremony in Ninh Tay commune, exploiting and building products to serve tourism development; implementing policies and supporting ethnic minority artisans in transmitting and popularizing traditional cultural activities and training and fostering successors; Coordinate with the Department of Culture and Sports , Department of Tourism to organize training courses, foster expertise, professional skills, teach intangible culture, and skills in serving tourists; build a model for building the cultural life of ethnic minorities associated with the potential, restoring, preserving and promoting traditional Ede costumes in Ninh Tay commune. Along with that, build a folk cultural activity club and support activities for traditional art troupes in villages of ethnic minorities and mountainous areas; support investment in building typical tourist destinations in ethnic minorities and mountainous areas; coordinate to organize festivals, exchanges, and festivals on traditional cultural and artistic forms of ethnic minorities; coordinate to support propaganda and widely promote typical traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities...
After 6 months of implementing the above plan, Ninh Hoa town has supported cultural house equipment in villages of Ninh Tan and Ninh Tay communes. In particular, the town has approved the economic and technical report on investment in building cultural and sports facilities in the villages: Buon Lac, Buon Dung, Song Bung, Buon Sim, Buon Tuong, Suoi Mit (Ninh Tay commune) and Suoi Sau village (Ninh Tan commune). The town's Department of Culture and Information has issued a document guiding the two communes of Ninh Tay and Ninh Tan to organize the establishment of art clubs in ethnic minority and mountainous villages in 2023; install equipment for cultural and artistic activities in community houses; invest in supporting the construction of cultural and sports facilities in the 7 villages mentioned above...
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hung said: “In the 2024 - 2025 period, the town will continue to closely follow the instructions of relevant departments and branches, identify each specific content and task to develop a detailed plan suitable to the actual situation, ensuring effective implementation of the project. During that process, the locality hopes that the Department of Culture and Sports will pay attention to and organize training courses to provide professional guidance to district and commune-level officials and civil servants in charge of advising on the implementation of this task”.
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