(Baonghean) -Backward customs and social evils are one of the reasons why mountainous communes and remote areas are still poor, backward and underdeveloped. To solve this problem, paying attention to culture and promoting traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities is one of the important solutions. That is also the theme of the workshop on "Current status of experience and new features in conservation work" organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Among the 6 ethnic minorities in Nghe An, each ethnic group has its own customs and cultural identity. In that cultural identity, there is traditional culture that needs to be preserved, but there is also mystical, backward, superstitious colors that need to be eliminated. To do that, over the past years, the work of preserving and promoting traditional culture, eliminating backward customs, and social evils in Nghe An has been of interest to all levels and sectors and is considered one of the core tasks of socio-cultural economic development. In particular, the province focuses on issues such as building, training and fostering a team of cadres, building cultural families and villages, and considers them the core and basis for implementing plans.

Specifically, in addition to improving the cultural level of cultural and information cadres at the district and commune levels, the province also creates conditions for ethnic minority children to study at the provincial cultural college... This team is the important core to propagate the policies of the province and the industry, bringing the movement into depth, to each house, each person. The construction of cultural families and cultural villages is also regulated with many specific criteria and there are many policies, programs and projects to support mountainous communes to build cultural institutions and standards for libraries, health care, education...

With 142,901/231,597 cultural families and 7/216 mountainous communes recognized as meeting cultural standards, it shows that the lives of families in mountainous districts have gradually stabilized, have a healthy spiritual life, do not maintain backward customs, and do not commit social evils. Especially thanks to active propaganda, in recent years, backward customs such as funerals not lasting more than 24 hours, the dead must be put in a sealed wooden coffin of the Mong people, not believing in shamans to cure diseases of the Thai people, not demolishing large houses to build small ones when parents pass away of the Kho Mu people, not taking newborn babies to bathe in streams early in the morning have been completely abolished.

In addition to implementing policies and building cultural movements, many restoration projects to preserve and promote traditional culture have also been deployed. Regarding the preservation and restoration of historical relics, in recent times, the province has coordinated with the cultural sector to preserve the memorial house of Mr. Vi Van Khang (where the first communist party cell was established), the ancient Vietnamese village in Lang Vac relic site, Chin Gian temple, Cua Rao temple, Pu Nha Thau temple, preserve the traditional cultural village of Kho Mu - Huoi Tho (Ky Son), the traditional cultural village of O Du - Vang Mon (Tuong Duong), the cultural village of Mong ethnic group - Son Ha (Ky Son), preserve the traditional stilt house of Thai people - Vi village (Quy Hop)... Regarding language and writing, with the policy of "each ethnic group learns its own language and writing", by opening classes to teach the language and writing of ethnic minorities, more and more ethnic minority children are learning their own language and writing such as the ancient Thai script (Lai Quy Chu script, Lai Pao script).

Achievements in the work of preserving and promoting traditional culture

In the coming time, there are still many things to do to preserve and maintain traditional values, focusing on collecting, preserving, researching, and introducing architectural styles, costumes, musical instruments, tools, production tools, and brocade products; preventing the loss and damage of valuable relics and antiques of ethnic groups that are still hidden among the people; organizing the collection, research, introduction, and preservation of various types of folk literature and art of ethnic groups; strengthening the transfer of culture and art to the grassroots to serve the people with appropriate content and programs; strengthening and comprehensively developing the grassroots information system; promoting forms of cultural and artistic exchange between ethnic minority regions... These issues, in addition to funding, also require the heart and vision of those who work in culture and love ethnic culture.

My Ha