Launching a website digitizing portraits of 3,000 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers

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The event aims to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025). The website "Portrait of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers" (https://chandungme.vn/) was built by the Center for Geographic Information System Application, under the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City, since January 2020.

This is a digital archive of profound humanistic value, contributing to preserving and spreading touching stories about the noble sacrifices of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers across the country.

Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Ho Chi Minh City Lam Dinh Thang said this is a highly humane project when digitizing more than 3,000 portraits of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers from the South to the North by artist Dang Ai Viet from 2010 to present through many journeys across Vietnam.

In addition to the portraits of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, the website also introduces each photo, the stories of the Mothers as well as the circumstances of the portrait's creation. This is not simply an information page but a convenient archive, contributing to the propaganda and education of love for the homeland, country, and national pride to all classes of people.

Artist Dang Ai Viet said that digitizing the portraits of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers is her way of realizing her dream of preserving sacred values ​​that go beyond the limits of paper. This is also a gift she wants to send to the younger generation, so that they can remember the contributions of those who sacrificed for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland.

Artist Dang Ai Viet, real name Dang Thi Bong, was born in 1948 in Tien Giang. She was an actress in the My Tho Provincial Art Troupe when she was only 15 years old. In July 1964, she was an artist and reporter for the Liberation Women's Newspaper.

After graduating from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine Arts in 1981, she became a teacher at the Cambodian School of Culture and Arts, where she spent 20 years teaching. Retiring in 2003, she actively participated in social activities and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Association for the Support of Disabled People and Orphans.

Sharing about her journey, artist Dang Ai Viet said that everyone has their own way of showing gratitude, no two are alike. For her, showing gratitude is preserving the image of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers through each stroke. Through her portraits, she hopes that the current and future generations will preserve that sacred image, always keeping it in mind.

She had been planning to draw portraits of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers since 1995, but it took 16 years to realize it. She drew portraits of Mothers according to the list of those awarded the title of Vietnamese Heroic Mother according to Decree No. 56/2013/ND-CP...

For artist Dang Ai Viet, the work she has been doing is the responsibility of a child to the country. When drawing portraits of Mothers, the emotion is not simply artistic sublimation, it is the emotion of responsibility. Therefore, her journey also contributes to spreading kindness, strongly inspiring people, especially the young generation, about dreams, ambitions and ideals in life./.

According to VNA

Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/ra-mat-website-so-hoa-chan-dung-3-000-me-viet-nam-anh-hung-245286.htm