Tag: intangible cultural heritage
Initiatives to promote tug-of-war in Vietnam
VOV.VN - Tug-of-war rituals and folk games were honored by UNESCO in 2015 as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, a multi-national project of Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Cambodia, and the Philippines.
Turning cultural heritage into strength for national development: Deputy PM
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged the National Council for Cultural Heritage to focus more on the preservation and promotion of relics to make them a source of strength for national development.
Unique fire-dancing ritual of Red Dao group in Vietnam
VOV.VN - The ritual of “Nhay lua” or “fire dance” in English, ceremony performed by the Red Dao ethnic people in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, has been regconised as part of national intangible cultural heritage by the the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Visitors flock to Mother Goddess worshipping festival in Yen Bai
A festival centering on the Vietnamese Mother Goddess worshipping opened in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai on October 26, drawing large crowds of practitioners and visitors.
Provinces asked to mobilise funding for UNESCO-recognised Vi Giam singing
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 30 requested the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh to balance their annual budgets and mobilise funding from other sources to implement projects on protection and promotion of Vi Giam folk singing.
