(HBO0 - A mountainous district, Mai Chau is home to seven ethnic groups, with the Thai making up over 86 percent. In order to preserve and uphold the traditional cultural value of the group, local departments and agencies actively are encouraging and expanding a movement of wearing traditional costumes during major holidays and working days.
Teachers and
students of a local elementary school maintain tradition of wearing traditional
ethnic costumes every Friday.
Honouring the
beauty of traditional costumes to contribute to the preservation and upholding of
Thai cultural values, the district Women's Union recently directed units to
maintain the movement of wearing traditional costumes, towards realising the
Party Central Committee’s Resolution No. 33 on "building and developing the
Vietnamese culture and people to meet requirements for sustainable national
development", the provincial and district Party committees’ directives on
strengthening administrative discipline and spreading civilised lifestyle and corporate
culture.
The province now records 70 models from communes and towns, 46 schools
and eight agencies with the rule on wearing traditional costumes every Monday
and Thursday. The district Women’s Union raised public awareness of the effort
in various forms, attracting members from 16 communes and townships to join the
movement. Nine local units were assisted in sewing brocade uniforms for female
officials and cadres, contributing to maintaining ethnic identity and
developing traditional brocade weaving.
For the
preservation, restoration and upholding of cultural heritages related to
traditional costumes of ethnic minorities, the district opened a training
course on skills to uphold the value of intangible cultural heritage regarding
handicraft and embroidery. It also launched an awareness campaign to preserve
traditional ethnic costumes in suitable ways, including wearing traditional costumes
at boarding schools, encouraging ethnic officials and cadres to wear them
during traditional Lunar New Year or festivals, introducing them to tourists
and travel agencies, and issuing mechanisms and policies for artisans.
To realise goals
in the project on the preservation and upholding of traditional costumes of
ethnic Vietnamese minorities in the current period, Mai Chau district
contributed to the sustainable development of ethnic culture nationwide./.
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