The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that on the list of national intangible heritages are the Huệ Nam Palace Festival and the traditional craft of making Vân Cù vermicelli.
A number of local festivals that play an important role in not only showcasing the unique cultural heritage of all Vietnamese communities but also in maintaining spiritual links to their roots have come under scrutiny in recent years.
A model presents a design d with inspiration
from Ly-Tran dynasty antiques. These designs will be presented by
dancers in a ballet performance tonight at the Ha Noi Old Quarter
Cultural Exchange Centre, 50 Dao Duy Tu Street.
The Loa Thanh Award ceremony held in the imperial citadel of Thang Long
on Sunday presented nearly 50 outstanding graduation projects of
students majoring in architecture and construction.
Countries must act beyond their borders and join together to stop the
illicit trafficking of irreplaceable cultural heritage, said Edouard
Planche, secretary of the UNESCO''s Convention for the Fight Against
Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property.
Amateur troupes from seven provinces are performing Vietnamese
traditional art forms, recognised as world cultural non-intangible
heritage by UNESCO, in Thanh Hoa Province.
Amateur troupes from seven provinces are performing Vietnamese
traditional art forms, recognised as world cultural non-intangible
heritage by UNESCO, in Thanh Hoa Province.
Hundreds of Buddhist antiques which have been stored
in a temple in Da Nang City for many years will be exhibited to the
public on December 24 for the first time.
Vietnamese stamp exhibition 2015 (Vietstampex 2015) will showcase more
than 500 post stamp frames at the Friendship Cultural Palace in downtown
Ha Noi from December 11-13.
A traditional Vietnamese tug-of-war folk game was added to UNESCO''s list
of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity icons yesterday, along with
three other Asian countries with a similar tradition.
Ok Om Bok, the Khmer people''s annual festival of worshipping the moon,
opens today in Tra Vinh City in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of
Tra Vinh.
A series of cultural activities to mark the Vietnam
Cultural Heritage Day (November 23) began last week at ancient sites in
the Old Quarter and downtown HCM City.
