UNESCO honors poet Ho Xuan Huong as a cultural celebrity
At the meeting on the morning of November 23 in Paris, two Vietnamese celebrities, poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu and poetess Ho Xuan Huong, were honored by UNESCO through a resolution.
The honoring of two Vietnamese cultural celebrities, Nguyen Dinh Chieu and Ho Xuan Huong, was approved by the 41st UNESCO General Assembly in the list of "Cultural celebrities and historical events for the 2022-2023 school year" for UNESCO to honor and participate in commemorating the year of birth/year of death.
The dossier commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famous person Nguyen Dinh Chieu and the 250th anniversary of the birth and 200th anniversary of the death of the poetess Ho Xuan Huong was approved along with 58 other dossiers.
“The UNESCO resolution to recognize the famous person Nguyen Dinh Chieu and the poetess Ho Xuan Huong is truly a source of pride and joy not only for Nghe An and Ben Tre provinces but also for all Vietnamese people. This also demonstrates the recognition of the international community and UNESCO for the values of the Vietnamese people in terms of culture, history, learning traditions as well as the ideology of gender equality and women's liberation, which are also very consistent with the values that UNESCO is promoting.”
The passing of the resolution to commemorate the birth/death anniversaries of the famous person Nguyen Dinh Chieu and the poetess Ho Xuan Huong is also the result of the efforts and close coordination over the past time of the People's Committee of Ben Tre province, the People's Committee of Nghe An province with the Vietnam National Commission for UNESCO, the Department of Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, experts and scientists of Vietnam.
Ho Xuan Huong was a poet who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in Quynh Doi - Quynh Luu - Nghe An. Her works are entirely poems and most of them are written in Nom script.
