In recent years, provinces in the Central Highlands have implementednumerous effective measures to preserve and promote their intangiblecultural heritages, contributing to maintaining the cultural identitiesof ethnic minority groups in the region.
Theprovinces have worked with authorised sectors to collect 801 epics, anddraw up a list of 388 artisans who can recite these works. Of the total,123 epics from seven ethnic groups were translated and 75 of them werepublished in both Vietnamese and ethnic languages.
They also made public hundreds of books on the culture of ethnicminority groups, and restored their traditional cultural activities likeepic reciting and gong performances.
The regionhas preserved and promoted the languages and handwriting of ethnicminorities by including them in the curricula of local primary andsecondary schools, and lengthening TV programmes in ethnic languages.
The “Dan toc va Mien nui” (Nationalities and Mountain) pictorial,owned by Vietnam News Agency, is also published in both Vietnamese andethnic languages such as Ede, Jarai, K’ho and M’nong to be provided freeof charge for villages and schools in the Central Highlands.
Vietnam’s Central Highlands region comprises five provinces, namelyKon Tum, Lam Dong, Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. It is home to manyethnic minority groups, including M’nong, Ede, Bana, Jarai and Xo Dang.-VNA
Theprovinces have worked with authorised sectors to collect 801 epics, anddraw up a list of 388 artisans who can recite these works. Of the total,123 epics from seven ethnic groups were translated and 75 of them werepublished in both Vietnamese and ethnic languages.
They also made public hundreds of books on the culture of ethnicminority groups, and restored their traditional cultural activities likeepic reciting and gong performances.
The regionhas preserved and promoted the languages and handwriting of ethnicminorities by including them in the curricula of local primary andsecondary schools, and lengthening TV programmes in ethnic languages.
The “Dan toc va Mien nui” (Nationalities and Mountain) pictorial,owned by Vietnam News Agency, is also published in both Vietnamese andethnic languages such as Ede, Jarai, K’ho and M’nong to be provided freeof charge for villages and schools in the Central Highlands.
Vietnam’s Central Highlands region comprises five provinces, namelyKon Tum, Lam Dong, Gia Lai, Dak Lak and Dak Nong. It is home to manyethnic minority groups, including M’nong, Ede, Bana, Jarai and Xo Dang.-VNA
