Promoting culture through pictures

Young people choose to spread the beauty of their homeland in many new and creative ways. They become bridges, bringing Vietnamese culture, regional culture, and ethnic groups closer to everyone, especially their peers. Dao Huu Quy (born in 1993, from Hue) is one of them.

Dao Huu Quy experiences making sesame crackers in Da Nang .

Each video , a story

I happened to come across videos of a young man wearing ao dai and Nam O people experiencing fish sauce brewing, making fish sauce coffee, enjoying fish salad, cooking porridge, making sesame crackers... and was impressed by the charming "storytelling", from the "sweet" Hue accent to the neat images.

The more you watch Dao Huu Quy's channel, the more you enjoy the way this young man preserves and promotes the cultural beauty of his homeland. Not only in the role of an introducer, Quy is also a companion, "immersing" himself in the life of the workers, helping viewers feel the beauty of his homeland through each frame. "Reality" is also the first principle when Quy decided to become a content creator.

“Behind each traditional Vietnamese profession are the concerns and feelings of the artisans. Knowing is easy, understanding and loving is difficult. But to understand how difficult a profession is, you have to experience it directly, participating in every stage with the character,” Quy confided. Perhaps, from his own genuine feelings, Quy can convey to the audience the deep emotion of the beauty of the people, the profession, and the homeland.

That’s why Quy’s filming time is often long. For example, in Dia Linh village, after finishing making the soil, Quy waits for a week to bake it before returning to continue filming the process of removing the mold and completing the statues of Ong Cong and Ong Tao. “Although it takes a lot of time, waiting patiently to get the most realistic footage makes me feel secure,” Quy said emotionally.

To get those frames, Quy spent a lot of time and effort to learn and research information and related documents of craft villages, such as: Mau Tai popcorn village, Trieu Son conical hat village, Dia Linh village (making Ong Cong, Ong Tao), Bao La bamboo and rattan weaving... Finding the right address was a challenge, convincing the artisans to agree to appear in front of the camera was even more difficult because they were shy. But it was the sincerity and perseverance of the young man that convinced the simple craftsmen to open their hearts.

The more he interacted and listened, the more determined he became to bring his hometown culture closer to everyone. Quy realized that many long-standing traditional craft villages were at risk of disappearing when facing many challenges in maintaining and developing. “Many older artisans gradually lost their motivation because they spent a lot of effort but their products had difficulty finding outlets and did not bring in significant profits. On the contrary, the younger generation lacked experience…”, Quy worried.

Spreading cultural values

After quitting his job as an accountant in Ho Chi Minh City, Quy returned to his hometown of Hue and became a model of ao dai. When COVID-19 broke out, Quy had time to slow down and think more.

In that quiet moment, his grandmother’s stories from his childhood echoed in his mind. Those stories created a link between the past and the present in Quy’s heart, nurturing a deep love for his homeland’s culture and becoming the driving force behind his journey of content creation.

Quy started his creative journey with Hue cuisine from the frustration that many friends often remembered Hue through familiar dishes such as beef noodle soup, mussel rice, and banh loc... "Hue cuisine is much more diverse and interesting, but not many people know about it," Quy expressed.

Realizing the great power of social networks, Quy decided to enter the field of content creation, with the desire to spread and promote the unique cultural beauty of Hue as well as Vietnam to the community.

Dao Huu Quy promotes the beauty of Dia Linh craft village - the only place in Hue that still preserves the craft of making Ong Tao from terracotta.

So, Quy and his colleagues made videos about Hue's unique dishes, such as: sticky rice cake, fried rice cake, rice noodle soup, pressed rice cake... But after a year of pursuing a free creative style, he realized that he needed a clearer direction. And a series of 10 elaborate episodes about dishes with subtitles was born with many interesting dishes: Nem Cong Cha Phung, Banh La Cha Tom, Bun Nuoc vinegar, appetizer orange and tangerine, vegetarian vermicelli, beef vermicelli...

Over the past three years, Quy’s TikTok channel has attracted more than 115,000 followers and more than 1.4 million likes. Taking advantage of the development of technology, content creators like Quy have become “cultural ambassadors”, contributing to increasing the coverage of Vietnam’s image.

It can be seen that in the wave of global integration and development, Vietnamese youth are constantly searching for and affirming their national cultural identity, creating a diverse and rich cultural picture.

Source: https://baodanang.vn/quang-ba-van-hoa-qua-nhung-khung-hinh-3305472.html