Finding solutions to preserve Vietnamese culture and folk arts after 50 years of national reunification

The national scientific conference "Vietnamese folk culture and arts after national reunification (1975-2025)" was recently held in Hanoi with the participation of many delegates who are researchers and scientists.

Speaking at the workshop, Prof. Dr. Le Hong Ly, Chairman of the Vietnam Folk Arts Association, affirmed that Vietnamese folk arts and culture activities after 1975 developed strongly, both in collecting, disseminating and teaching.

View of the Workshop held from October 17-19 in Hanoi . (Source: Culture Newspaper)

However, due to the impact of the strong international integration process, villages are gradually urbanized, the space for folk culture and arts is gradually narrowing, which is a big challenge in preserving and developing folk culture and arts.

On the other hand, Professor Le Hong Ly also cited a number of typical cases in which artists and musicians successfully incorporated folk materials into music , such as the cases of Hoa Minzy and Duc Phuc, incorporating folk culture into modern musical works, promoting Vietnamese culture while at the same time preserving and developing national cultural identity...

At the workshop, delegates had discussions and exchanged opinions related to the development of Vietnamese folk culture and arts.

Sharing here, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Chi Ben, former Director of the National Institute of Culture and Arts (now the Vietnam Institute of Culture, Arts, Sports and Tourism), presented the achievements of the work of collecting and researching Southern folk culture according to the following types: Folk literature (stories, jokes, legends, folk songs, proverbs, riddles); folk art (folk architecture); folk performing arts (folk songs, ceremonial music, amateur music); folk knowledge and craft villages, folk beliefs and festivals, artisans.

Mr. Nguyen Chi Ben also raised issues of collecting and researching Southern folk culture in the context of international integration and the 4.0 industrial revolution, the issue of comprehensive research on Southern folk culture, building a Southern folk culture databank and promoting achievements in researching Southern folk culture to domestic and foreign readers...

Dr. Nguyen Thi Hai Anh, Faculty of Basic Sciences, School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University, analyzed the opportunities and challenges in preserving and promoting Vietnamese folk culture in the digital age, focusing on the role of online platforms such as TikTok and YouTube....

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai Anh proposed a conservation approach that is not based on maintaining form, but on the capacity to maintain vitality, the ability to participate and reconstruct identity in the digital environment.

The presentations at the workshop provided multi-dimensional perspectives on the picture of Vietnamese culture and folk arts after the country's reunification (1975-2025): Achievements and contributions of folk culture and arts over the past 50 years; difficulties and risks of fading away in the integration process; at the same time, suggestions and proposals for approaches to preserving folk culture and arts in the current context of integration and development.

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