(HBO) - On March 31st, at Muong Bi cultural house, Phong Phu commune, the People's Committee of Tan Lac district held the launching ceremony of the Club conserving, preserving, and promoting the value of Mo Muong cultural heritage. The leaders from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism; the District’s Party Committee, the People's Committee and a number of the departments and branches, the representative of the Club conserving, preserving and promoting of Mo Muong cultural heritage in Lac Son and Cao Phong districts attended the ceremony.
The leaders from the District’s
Party Committee and the People's Committee of Tan Lac District are presenting
congratulatory gift to the Club.
The club the Club conserving,
preserving, and promoting the value of Mo Muong cultural heritage in Tan Lac
District is a social organization of the individuals, operating on the
principle of voluntariness and self-management under the direct management of
the District’s People's Committee. The club gathers 26 people who are enthusiastic
and love Mo Muong, creating the conditions for everyone to participate in
conserving, preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values, building
and developing Mo Muong cultural values.
Immediately after the launching
ceremony, the club has agreed on the goals and the direction of the activities
in the coming time. Accordingly, they wouls perform the task of collecting,
conserving, preserving and promoting Mo Muong cultural values. They would
preserve the ancient Mo lessons, record books and teach them to the next
generation. They would organize the club exchanges, meetings between the
elderly members and the young people to learn, exchange and share experiences.
They would also integrate folk songs, poems, proverbs, and folk songs of Muong
to increase the vividness and attractiveness of Mo and attract more members to
participate in activities. It was expected that the club would organize
meetings on the wekends each month, quarter and year.
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.