(HBO) – Thanks to the Resolution adopted at the fifth plenum of the 8th-tenure Party Central Committee on building and developing Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity, Mo Muong, a unique cultural heritage of the Muong ethnic group in Hoa Binh province, has been restored since 2000.
Mo Muong is a job and also a performance
practiced at funerals, religious festivals, and life cycle rituals by the Muong
ethnic group. The art consists of Mo prayers and performances, by Mo
practitioners, or Mo artisans.
Hoa Binh province has viewed Mo Muong as a
cultural heritage that needs to be preserved and promoted, and has included it
in the Resolution of the provincial Party Congress for the 2015-2020 and
2020-2025 tenures.
The Resolution highlighted the mobilisation of
resources to preserve and promote mountainous cultural identities of ethnic
minority groups in combination with tourism development.
It also mentioned the submission of the dossier
on Mo Muong to the UNESCO for recognition as an intangible cultural heritage in
need of urgent protection.
Despite ups and downs, with the introduction of
foreign culture, Mo Muong has maintained its vitality and nurtured the
personality and soul of generations of Muong people.
To preserve the custom, the entire political
system and people in Hoa Binh have implemented both short and long-term plans
seeking the UNESCO’s recognition.
The Standing Board of the provincial Party
Committee has ordered strengthening the leadership of all-level Party
committees in realising the Law on Cultural Heritage and documents on the
protection and promotion of cultural values, notably Mo Muong.
The board asked all-level Party committees,
authorities, Vietnam Fatherland Front committees and social-political
organisations to actively coordinate with relevant ministries, agencies and
localities in seeking the Prime Minister’s approval to submit the dossier to
the UNESCO.
Luu Huy Linh, Deputy Director of the provincial
Director of Culture, Spots and Tourism, said his department will step up the
communication work in the time ahead to raise public awareness of Mo Muong.
Mo Muong performances would be staged at
programmes, festivals, cultural exchanges and other events in the province, he
said.
The Mo Muong club in Lac Son district has been
assigned to open Mo Muong classes, Linh said, adding that the department will
also partner with its counterparts in a number of provinces where Muong people
are living to complete the dossier. /.
The Government Office with Document No. 2082/VPCP-KGVX, dated March 29, 2024, sent out the opinion of Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha regarding the submission of the "Mo Muong" and "Cheo art" dossiers to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In the evening of March 28th, in Hoa Binh, the Department of Grassroots Culture (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) coordinated with the provincial Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the city to organize a mobile propaganda contest to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7th, 1954 - May 7th, 2024) with the theme "Returning to Dien Bien”. There ứa the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; the representatives of the leaders from a number of departments, branches and numerous veterans and Hoa Binh people.
In responding to the movement of "All people stay united to build cultural lifestyle”, over the years, Kim Boi district has conducted many practical and effective activities to promote solidarity and mutual support among the local community in sustainable poverty reduction and building cultural lifestyle and a healthy cultural environment, and maintaining national cultural identity.
Hoa Binh Pedagogical College has just held the closing ceremony of the training class and issued the certificate of the language of Muong ethnic people to the oficials, civil servants and public employees of courses I and II in 2023.
Hoa Binh is an ancient land home to limestone mountains running along the southeast direction and in parallel with Truong Son Mountain Range in the West, forming many basins and valleys with a rich diversity of fauna and flora. Humans came to reside here in the pre-historic period, creating the world-famous Hoa Binh Civilisation.
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