If you love your homeland, you will still have your homeland…

The "revolution" to streamline the administrative apparatus and reorganize administrative units is being carried out urgently and decisively, aiming to make the system more efficient, effective, and effective.

And of course, there will be many pivotal "changes" resulting from the reorganization of administrative units. It is projected that 11 out of 63 provincial-level administrative units will remain unchanged; 52 out of 63 provincial-level administrative units will be subject to reorganization. This means that many provincial and city names will become… a memory.

Now and in the near future, it will be difficult for each person to avoid feelings of regret and apprehension as they say goodbye to the names of their villages, communes, and provinces that they were once proud of and fondly remembered, making way for new names in this historical reform process.

Tiet Dat village, Quang Phu commune (Cu M'gar district) today.

Homeland – the place where each person is born and lives – is not just a name or an administrative address, but something deeply ingrained in our subconscious, a cultural tradition distilled over generations. Love for the land and people of the place where one is born and lives is incredibly sacred, becoming a great source of pride in each person's heart.

Now, the merger opens up new space to suit the new stage of development and the trends of the times. Frankly, initially there will inevitably be lingering feelings of nostalgia, disappointment, and even difficulty accepting a new name in a reality that has never been associated with it.

Because of these lingering concerns, everyone wants to retain the old name. But if we look further, at the efforts to build and create new spaces and opportunities for development, then everyone will feel more at ease, because their aspirations are gradually becoming a reality.

One day, even if the name is no longer there, but due to higher development, the village road, with its banyan tree and the familiar riverside, now bearing a different name, will still evoke nostalgia, but the people who love their homeland and are proud of the land they live on will work together to rebuild it.

Like me and my neighbors in Quang Phu commune (Cu M'gar district), including hamlets 1, 2, 3, 4… we also witnessed the division and renaming. After the change, the land where I grew up and lived was renamed Quang Tien commune, with hamlets such as Tien Dat, Tien Thinh, Tien Phat, Tien Cuong… All the new names begin with the word "Tien," meaning: to advance, to progress, with the meaning of wishing for development and prosperity.

Initially, people were quite disappointed with the new name, even hesitant to use it because the name sounded unfamiliar, even strangely unappealing (!). But over time, without anyone noticing, people became accustomed to the names: people of Tien Dat village, Tien Cuong, Tien Phat, Tien Phu instead of village 1, village 2… This shows that the change was merely an administrative name change to suit the development requirements of each historical period, and did not cause the loss of "homeland," the loss of memories of the cultural roots that had been nurtured and deeply ingrained in the hearts of each person.

This merger and transformation is no different. In the future, the names of villages and provinces may change or no longer be called in the old way, but the roots and soul of each person's homeland will remain intact.

Everyone loves and cherishes their homeland and wants to preserve it. But the spirit of the homeland will surely remain if one deeply cares for it. The love for one's homeland will always be present in each person; it cannot disappear because of mergers or name changes. Therefore, if one truly loves and yearns for their homeland, it will always reside in their heart, even if its name is now different.

Even if the province has a new name and the old commune no longer bears its former name, it is still the land, the soul of the homeland where we were once connected, sharing the same blood and kinship, now larger and with a different name. And then each person will have many new "relatives" to build a close-knit community. Of course, a new name, marking the beginning of a journey to contain and nurture something sacred within each person, will be carefully considered and selected by the competent authorities in a scientific and democratic manner, linked to traditional culture, and creating high consensus in society.

Source: https://baodaklak.vn/xa-hoi/202504/yeu-que-thi-se-con-que-305179a/