Collecting and translating ancient Han Nom documents about Nghi Loc district and Cua Lo town

On the morning of December 30, the Department of Science and Technology held a workshop to announce the scientific results of the task: Survey, collect, and translate ancient Han Nom documents in Nghi Loc district and Cua Lo town.

Comrade Tran Quoc Thanh - Director of the Department of Science and Technology chaired the workshop. Also attending were leaders of Nghi Loc district and Cua Lo town. Photo: Le Thanh

Nghi Loc district and Cua Lo town are two localities in the coastal plain area of ​​Nghe An province, with many historical sediments, many historical celebrities, bearing the characteristics of Nghe culture and the country.

With the important strategic position of Nghe An land through historical periods, many feudal dynasties recorded, described, commented and discussed fully and in detail in many official histories, regional histories, as well as geographical records of many famous scholars at home and abroad.

Therefore, this place also left behind a very large and rich Han Nom cultural heritage, but for many reasons, especially due to the consequences of wars over the years and severe natural disasters, much has been damaged and lost. Therefore, the Han Nom documents in the area are still cultural heritage that need to be collected, preserved and promoted in the new era.

Mr. Tran Manh Cuong - Researcher, Department of History and Culture The Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Science and Technology chaired the project to report research results. Photo: Le Thanh

Han Nom documents in the area are an extremely valuable heritage. The content of the documents is extremely rich and diverse, relating to many areas of social life in previous centuries; providing valuable information on politics, economics, administration, law, religion, medicine, etc.; helping historians, sociologists, ethnologists, etc. have more valuable documents to research the history, culture and society of the locality in the past.

Researching, collecting and translating Han Nom documents about Nghi Loc district and Cua Lo town will provide valuable and rare sources of documents for compiling geographical and historical records; contributing to preserving and promoting the values ​​of local documents in the process of building new rural areas of the two localities in particular and Nghe An in general.

Han Nom documents in Cua Lo and Nghi Loc were collected by the authors. Photo TL

Delegates discuss at the workshop. Photo: Le Thanh

Discussing at the workshop, the opinions of the scientific delegates highly appreciated the topic that was carefully researched, collected, and translated many valuable documents. At the same time, they analyzed and provided additional comments for the research team to absorb and complete the topic report./.