Digitizing tens of thousands of valuable Han-Nom documents

The Han-Nom documents were collected in 18 villages with 132 clans and a number of temples, palaces, garden houses and private homes in Thua Thien-Hue.

Many valuable Han Nom documents are rotten or at high risk of damage.

Thua Thien-Hue province has just coordinated with the Ho Chi Minh City General Science Library to collect and digitize nearly 40,200 pages of Han-Nom documents.

This is the result of the provincial-level science and technology project "Collecting, translating, and digitizing Han-Nom documents in some villages, communes, and private homes in Thua Thien-Hue", carried out in 2014-2015.

The collected and digitized documents include the following categories: Royal decrees, royal decrees, royal edicts, and edicts (498 document titles, with 498 pages); family genealogy (264 document titles, with 9,240 pages); land registers (38 document titles, with 7,600 pages); funeral oration (50 document titles, with 5,500 pages); diplomas (201 document titles, with 201 pages); other categories (298 document titles, with 6,961 pages) recorded on materials including Do paper, special paper - Sac Vang paper - Long Dang paper, 5-color fabric (silk), and copper.

Due to its long existence, the Han-Nom heritage is currently at risk of damage and loss due to many different reasons such as: harsh climate, human awareness, preservation means... Therefore, digitizing valuable documents is a necessary method.

According to Chinhphu.vn