(Baonghean) - Village culture plays an important role in the lives of Vietnamese people. Reporters of Nghe An Newspaper had an interview with Associate Professor Ninh Viet Giao about this issue to help readers better understand the value of village culture.
Can you generalize about "village" in Vietnam?Malein general, Nghe An in particular?
Associate Professor Ninh Viet Giao: VietnameseMaleWe go from village to country. In general, villages in Nghe An were formed a long time ago, there are villages along the river, coastal villages, midland villages, suburban villages, craft villages, learning villages... Except for the villages of ethnic minorities in the West, Vietnamese villages, especially ancient villages, regardless of location, structure, purely agricultural village or village with handicrafts..., almost every village has its own character, its own nuances. It can be said that a village in Nghe An is almost a person, a complete body, so it hides a soul, a community mentality. The village is the administrative base of the country. The village is the model for the ancients to follow to expand and build national and urban organizations.
Associate Professor Ninh Viet Giao
The village is also a fortress to fight against foreign invaders and all foreign elements, protecting the peace of the nation and the country. The country has laws, the village has customs. The village concretizes some of the country's laws. Since ancient times, the village has been a closed community organization. The village communal house worships the village guardian spirit and organizes festivals. The bamboo fence and the village gate are typical of the border and border gate of the "family village" with its own laws. The village and commune are a solid foundation, an extremely important administrative unit of the feudal state and even during the time our country was ruled by the French colonialists.
Village culture enters the memory of Vietnamese peopleMalewith a series of very close and dear material and spiritual values. The village is the place to preserve all the customs, tangible and intangible culture, all the rituals and festivals, so if you want to study the traditional culture of the country, you must start from the village culture or in other words, you must take the village culture as the root.
PV: How have the characteristics of ancient village culture and modern village culture changed, sir?
Associate Professor Ninh Viet Giao: Through the historical periods of the nation, Vietnamese village culture has demonstrated its strong vitality. Village love, neighborhood affection, and neighborly relationships bind people in village life. Although village culture has become an identity, a constant of Vietnamese culture,Male, but over time, nothing is unchanged. Many villages in VietnamMaleNowadays, there is no longer a village name, the administrative unit is from commune to hamlet, team. With the modernization of life, with the industrialization and urbanization of society, with the globalization and integration of the world, the image of the village has gradually disappeared, along with many other social evils that are penetrating into each hamlet, village, and village. Village culture in rural life in VietnamMaleToday is changing very quickly, strongly and deeply. The good is evident, the bad is also revealed more clearly.
PV: So, in your opinion, what traditional beauty of village culture should be preserved?
Associate Professor Ninh Viet Giao: In the cultural identity of the village, it is also the identity of Vietnamese culture.Male, what is still valuable now still needs to be preserved. If it is necessary to abandon, then abandon the bad. Vietnamese people need to preserve the good characteristics of village culture, but at the same time need to promote social awareness, sense of responsibility, create conditions for individual development, towards a harmonious democratic society, living in respect for the law and discipline. Only in this way can we escape the narrow vision of village culture, small-scale farming communes, on that basis preserve and promote the quintessence of village culture, build Vietnamese urban culture and not let urban culture become ruralized again. It is time to raise the issue of preserving and promoting the architectural heritage of Vietnamese villages and have specific directions for rural architecture and most importantly, the sense of responsibility and community spirit of each citizen.
PV: Thank you!
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