Nghe An: Introducing UNESCO's world documentary heritage

(Baonghean.vn) -On the morning of June 3, the Soviet Nghe Tinh Museum in collaboration with the Song Lam Heritage and Antiquities Association organized a talk and exchange session with the theme “Phuc Giang School Woodblocks” (18th - 20th century). This is the third set of woodblocks of Vietnam that has just been recognized by UNESCO as a world documentary heritage.

The woodblocks are documents carved on wood blocks quite delicately, with beautiful calligraphy and family crests, copyright stamps containing a lot of information about culture, education, socio-economics, and exchanges between families, including rare and valuable ancient woodblocks, along with some books of the "Four Books and Five Classics" of Confucianism. These woodblocks are kept at Phuc Giang Library (Phuc Giang Library), a famous library throughout the country of the Nguyen Huy family.

The woodblocks of Phuc Giang School are currently kept at the Nguyen Huy family - Ha Tinh

In Vietnam, this is a family's book printing woodblock set that is still intact and preserved to this day. The woodblocks have similarities with other woodblock sets, but also have their own features, especially in education, which has a great influence on Vietnam and diplomatic relations in the region. From the 18th to the 20th century, the woodblocks were a valuable textbook set used at Phuc Giang School, which trained over 30 doctors and thousands of village officials and bachelors. Among them were many people from Nghe An such as Doctor Nguyen Trong Duong (Nam Dan), Doctor Pham Nguyen Du (Thanh Chuong)...

Delegates give their opinions at the talk

In May 2016, at the 7th General Conference of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia - Pacific Region (MOWCAP) held in Hue city, Phuc Giang School Woodblocks were recognized by UNESCO as a Documentary Heritage of the Memory of the World Program for Asia - Pacific Region.

Display of Phuc Giang School Woodblocks at Nghe Tinh Soviet Museum

Currently, the whole country has a total of 6 World Documentary Heritages including: Woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty, Stone Steles of the Doctoral Examinations of the Le - Mac Dynasties, Woodblocks of Vinh Nghiem Pagoda, Royal Records of the Nguyen Dynasty, Poetry and Literature on Hue Royal Architecture and Woodblocks of Phuc Giang School in Ha Tinh Province.

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