Throughout the last decade, Khanh Hoa Province has carried out effectively numerous programs and activities in various ways in order to promote the values of the province's cultural heritages.
Throughout the last decade, Khanh Hoa Province has carried out effectively numerous programs and activities in various ways in order to promote the values of the province’s cultural heritages.
Khanh Hoa how has 16 national level monuments and 173 provincial level monuments; three national level intangible cultural heritages which are Ponagar Temple Festival, Whale Worshipping Festival, and the grave-leaving rite of the Raglai.
As said by Le Van Hoa, Deputy Director of Khanh Hoa Provincial Department of Culture and Sports, being aware of the importance of raising the awareness of the public, especially the young people, since 2008 until now, the department has associated with the localities to hold many contests on cultural heritages throughout the province. Through these contests, the world cultural heritages, national and provincial cultural heritages, provincial monuments, localities’ typical historical events and figures, and folk festivals, etc. have been introduce more thoroughly and widely to the public. In 2017, the local contest was upgraded to the provincial level version, attended by eight teams over the province.
Also ten years ago, the provincial Department of Culture and Sports and the provincial Department of Education and Training agreed on the plan to assign the duty of taking care of the local recognized monuments to the schools. Many practical activities to preserve the monuments were carried out, such as tree planting, cleaning and embellishing the monuments. Aside from the students, the local Youth Union members and young people have also taken part in the activities to preserve the monuments and heritages.
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Connecting the monument preservation with tourism activities has also been employed by Khanh Hoa’s cultural section for many recent years, which has been bringing some positive results. For example, some historical monuments in the coastal areas and on the islands have been restoring and embellishing, such as C235 “no-number” ship monument, Dong Bo, Da Ban, Hon Thi evolutionary bases. These monuments are expected to become the outstanding historical sights of Khanh Hoa.
The results from the above propaganda and activities of Khanh Hoa have proved its effectiveness. The awareness of the public on this subject has been raised. It can be said that encouraging the public to take part in restoring and preserving the monuments and traditional cultural values is an effective way to promote the values of the cultural heritages and monuments.
Giang Đinh
Translated by H.N
