Thai Hoa Town: Efforts to build grassroots cultural life
(Baonghean)Coming to Dong Hieu commune on the weekend, you can feel the bustling atmosphere of the cultural, artistic and sports movement here.
On the commune's FM loudspeaker system, the folk songs with new lyrics were resounding - vividly staged, propagating the policies and guidelines of the Party and State such as: preventing social evils, not having a third child, and the humanitarian blood donation movement. At 14/14 hamlet cultural houses, the art troupes in the hamlets actively practiced the lyrics, singing, and dancing. On the football fields, the cheers of the fans and the commentary were bustling. Mr. Tran Van Hong - Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee, took us to Dong Minh cultural hamlet - a small hamlet with 7 volleyball courts, 6 art troupes (each team has 20 members), and told us about the development process of the commune's cultural movement.
A practice session of the Dong Hieu Commune Folk Song Club. Photo: Sy Thanh.
Mr. Hong said that in 2008, the Folk Song Club founded by him and his friends was chosen as the nucleus for the cultural movement of the commune. The Folk Song Club quickly grew from 7 people to 25 people and achieved many high achievements in festivals. And more importantly, the Folk Song Club model has stimulated and encouraged the cultural and sports movement in the hamlets, the solidarity movement to build a cultural life in residential areas.
After 4 years, Dong Hieu has achieved many brilliant successes: 11/14 hamlets have achieved the title of Cultural Village, the commune is aiming to become a cultural commune by 2015; 86% of households have achieved the title of Cultural Family, 55% of Sports Family; the commune is no longer a hot spot for social evils, the poverty rate is only 3.15% (the average of the town is 6.2%). In 2011, Dong Hieu was awarded a certificate of merit by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for its outstanding achievements in organizing cultural and sports activities in the locality.
Not only in Dong Hieu, in Thai Hoa Town, the construction and development of an advanced culture with strong identity has been carried out synchronously and actively. After Thai Hoa Town was established, the Party Committee and government from the town to the grassroots continued to thoroughly implement the resolution on developing grassroots cultural life, thereby creating changes in the awareness and actions of Party Committees, governments, organizations, cadres, party members and people of all walks of life.
Many good and creative ways have appeared, with widespread influence among all classes of people, such as storytelling contests about Uncle Ho; cadres, party members, and people studying and researching "Uncle Ho's speech to cadres, workers, and local people at Dong Hieu State Farm"; mobilizing exemplary families to implement village covenants and conventions well, participating in building cultural families, cultural villages, and cultural units. Cultural, artistic activities, and sports movements have been promoted in all wards and communes. Many types of clubs have appeared, such as: Sports and Wellness Club, Poetry - Chess Club, Domestic Violence Prevention Club, No Third Child Club, Folk Song Club, Gong Club, etc. The town coordinated with the Provincial Monuments and Landscapes Management Board to conduct an inventory of over 30 relics and landscapes in wards and communes, and gradually invested in their restoration; Preserve and promote gong culture associated with Vi singing, folk songs, and folk dances of the Tho ethnic group; effectively maintain the Vi Dam folk singing club; plan the archaeological site conservation area associated with Lang Vac eco-tourism with a total area of 155.94 hectares; the memorial area for Uncle Ho visiting Dong Hieu commune with an area of 97,038 m2...
Mr. Pham Quang Toan - Deputy Secretary of Thai Hoa Town Party Committee, said: The results achieved in implementing the Central Resolution 5 (VIII term) on building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture with strong national identity of the town in the past time are an important premise for the town to continue promoting the building of a civilized lifestyle, cultural families, well implementing the economic and social development policy, solidarity towards building Thai Hoa Town into the center of the Northwest region of Nghe An.
Thanh Chung