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

The workshop was attended by representatives of provincial departments and branches, 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 holds/practices the heritage, 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 study, 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 information and useful and important reference content for interdisciplinary scientific subjects (Ethnology, Religion, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Local History, Place Name Studies, Anthropology, etc.).

On the other hand, this is an important document in the process of building new rural areas - not losing the cultural identity and traditional values. At the same time, the task is to make proposals to preserve and conserve the precious heritage of the locality in general and of the people in particular.

The main objective of the task is to collect, translate, annotate, and research the content and value of Han Nom books on “Nghe An Chi”. The results of the task will provide valuable and rare sources of documents for compiling 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: Surveying and investigating the reality to carry out the collection task; Inventorying, classifying, translating and annotating the Han Nom books system on Nghe An Chi; Researching the content value and meaning of Han Nom books on Nghe An Chi; Organizing scientific seminars; Compiling book manuscripts for wide publication.

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

Concluding the workshop, comrade Nguyen Khac Lam - Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology thanked the experts, researchers and related departments and branches for their contributions. He requested the project leader as well as the research team to absorb, supplement, edit and continue to ask for experts' opinions, complete the research manuscript from the layout, content... so that it can be published as a book and announced soon.