(HBO) - The People’s Committee of northern Hoa Binh province promulgated a plan in October 2016 to bring the Muong ethnic minority group’s scripts into life in order to preserve and promote its traditional cultural values.
A group of Muong folk art collectors meet with
artisans in Nang hamlet, Chi Thien commune, Lac Son district, to introduce the Muong
ethnic minority group’s scripts to local people.
To implement the teaching and learning of the Muong
scripts, from early 2017, the provincial information portal updated direction
documents of the provincial Party Committee and People’s Committee on
implementing communications in the field.
The Hoa Binh Newspaper has opened a Muong language
page integrated on its e-newspaper, including sections: politics, economy,
culture-tourism, education, defence-security, and sports. It also produces
three clips for Muong online television programme a month.
Besides the Hoa Binh Newspaper and Television,
most of departments and sectors in the province have encouraged officials and
people to learn about the Muong ethnic scripts.
In 2019, the provincial Department of Science
and Technology approved the outcome of a project compiling teaching and
learning materials of the Muong scripts, which enable Muong language speakers
to use in their daily work.
In January 2019, the provincial Party
Committee’s Board for Information and Education and the Department of Science
and Technology jointly organised a conference to hand over the Muong teaching
and learning materials to the Department of Science and Technology, the
Department of Information and Communications, the Department of Education and
Training, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the provincial Television,
the political school, and the Hoa Binh Newspaper to bring the Muong ethnic
scripts to life.
In late October 2019, the provincial political
school opened a training course on the Muong ethnic scripts for 50 trainees who
are officials and lecturers at school./.
From March 10th – 11th, the People's Committee of Cao Phong town (Cao Phong) coordinated with the Relics Management Board to organize the traditional festival of Thuong Bong Lai Temple in 2024.
As spring comes, people in Phu Nghia commune in particular and Lac Thuy district in general flock to Tien Pagoda festival to enjoy festive activities during the annual event.
Khai Ha festival is a long-standing traditional folk festival with the largest scale of Muong people in Hoa Binh province. In 2022, Khai Ha fesstival the Muong minority in Hoa Binh province was recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2023 and 2024, the festival was held on the provincial scale, getting together 4 major Muong regions (Bi, Vang, Thang, Dong) to participate, and it has been an opportunity for the quintessence of Muong ethnic culture to converge and shine.
With a great passion for national art, outstanding artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan in Voi area, Ba Hang Doi town in Lac Thuy district, has developed and promoted a Muong ethnic cultural space with over 2,000 artifacts which are familiar in the daily life in the Muong ethnic people.
Along with the process of integration and development, traditional cultural identities of the Muong ethnic community in general, and Muong ethnic people in Tan Lac district in particular, are at risk of falling into oblivion. Therefore, many clubs have been established in the locality to preserve and promote the beauty of the ethnic group’s cultural identities.
Held every three years, the swing festival in Muong Voi, Vu Ban town in Lac Son district is "one-of-a-kind". From the 5th to the 7th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Dragon, thousands of residents and tourists flocked to the locality to experience the unique cultural festival.