The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has restored 17 traditional
festivals over the past 15 years as part of efforts to realise the Party
Central Committee Resolution on building and developing an advanced
national culture.
Some of the 17 restored festivals are from the local M’Nong, Chau Ma, Ede and other ethnic minority groups.
The province has also rearranged more than 40 other festivals such as
victory celebrations and rituals related to water and planting and
harvesting crops.
It has also organised 68 classes to teach
gong dances, nine classes on playing traditional national musical
instruments and five classes to teach M’Nong folk songs, as well as
trained people to perform gongs, which were recognised as an intangible
cultural heritage of Vietnam .
In addition, Dak Nong issued
119 sets of gongs to cultural houses and presented 300 traditional
costumes and 180 musical instruments to eight M’Nong folk art troupes in
local districts and towns.
Residents and cultural
organisations in the province have also focused on preserving and
promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritages of local ethnic
minority groups, as well as collecting and publishing M’Nong folk art
and cultural works.-VNA