Announcing the results of the scientific task on the Han Nom work 'Nghe An Chi'

The workshop was attended by representatives of provincial departments, experts, scientists and Han Nom researchers inside and outside the province, universities and colleges in the area.

According to the workshop's introduction, activities to protect and promote the value of cultural heritage aim to improve the spiritual and material life of the community where the heritage is located or where the heritage is held/practiced, contributing to attracting tourism... Thereby, contributing to creating more position and strength for the socio-economic development of each unit, locality in particular and the country in general.

In Nghe An today, the number of ancient books is decreasing due to many reasons. Meanwhile, the need to learn, research, and documents on Han Nom geography of Nghe An lacks scientific and systematic documents; extremely rare documents and materials on this issue among the people are gradually being lost.

Based on the above-mentioned urgency, the task is to urgently carry out the inventory, classification, evaluation, transcription, and translation of dozens of Han Nom books on “Nghe An Chi”. The collection, translation, research, and publication will help to comprehensively survey valuable sources of documents, providing a lot of useful and important information and reference content for interdisciplinary scientific subjects (Ethnology, Religion, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Local History, Place Names, Anthropology, etc.).

On the other hand, this is an important document in the process of building a new countryside - without losing the cultural identity and traditional values ​​of the past. At the same time, the task is to make proposals to preserve and conserve the valuable heritage of the locality in general and of the people in particular.

The main objective of the mission is to collect, translate, annotate, and research the content and value of Han Nom books on “Nghe An Chi”. The results of the mission will provide valuable and rare sources of information for the compilation of Nghe An Geography, Nghe An History, Nghe An folk beliefs, Nghe An village conventions... customs, practices as well as issues of place names, anthropology, and sociology of Nghe An.

Thereby, helping to preserve and promote local documentary values; providing documents, comments and lessons from the past, helping to understand, evaluate and organize people's lives in contemporary times; contributing to preserving current cultural identity.

The task includes 5 research contents: Survey and investigation in practice to carry out the collection task; Inventory, classify, compile and annotate the Han Nom books on Nghe An Chi; Research the content value and meaning of Han Nom books on Nghe An Chi; Organize scientific seminars; Compile manuscripts of books for wide publication.

At the workshop, delegates gave their opinions to improve the research and contributed to the draft before it was widely published.

In his concluding remarks at the workshop, Mr. Nguyen Khac Lam - Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology thanked the experts, researchers and relevant departments and branches for their contributions. He requested the project manager and the research team to absorb, supplement, edit and continue to seek opinions from experts, complete the draft of the research work from the layout, content... so that it can be published as a book and announced soon.