CELEBRATE 130 YEARS OF THE BIRTHDAY OF CHAIRMAN HO CHI MINH (19/5/1890 – 19/5/2020)

19/05/2020

CELEBRATE 130 YEARS OF THE BIRTHDAY OF CHAIRMAN HO CHI MINH

President Ho Chi Minh – A genius leader, an old father of the nation, a great teacher of the Vietnamese Revolution, a hero of national liberation, a world cultural celebrity, a communist soldier exemplary sacrifice, close friend of all peoples loving peace and social progress around the world.

During his time, Uncle Ho was also a person who paid much attention to cultural heritage, had a heart to cherish the precious capital left by his father. Immediately after the successful August Revolution, on November 23, 1945, Uncle Ho signed Decree 65 “Assigning the mission of Indochina to the ancient academy” on the preservation of all tales in the whole of Vietnam. This is the first decree of our State on the preservation of the national cultural heritage. The decree was born in the context that the young Democratic Republic of Vietnam is facing many difficulties in terms of the enemy of hunger, enemy ignorance, and foreign invaders. The country is in a situation of “a thousand pounds hanging hair”. Uncle Ho affirmed that “the preservation of fairy is a very important and very necessary work for the construction of Vietnam” (the concept of “fairy” in the Decree today is called cultural heritage, including di Intangible cultural assets and tangible cultural heritage). Uncle has issued the Ordinance with the following 6 things:

The first thing: Eastern Uncle ancient academy has the task of preserving all fairy in the whole of Vietnam.
The second thing: the Eastern ancient academy will replace the French Far East Ancient Academy will be abolished.
Third: The rules of the preservation of fairy tales remain the same.
Fourth: Prohibit the destruction of temples, temples, shrines or other epochal places, palaces, citadels, and tombs that have not been preserved. It is forbidden to destroy the inscriptions, objects, identity of diplomas, papers, books that are religious or not, but useful for history that have not been preserved.
Article 5: The Government still recognizes in principle the annual subsidies of the whole country, each period or each province to the Eastern ancient academy. When drafting the budget for the whole country, for each period or each province, the Minister of Finance, the finance commissioner of each period or each province must estimate the subsidy for the Eastern Uncle Ho.
Article Sixth: The Ministers of the Interior, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Justice, and the Ministry of National Education shall execute this Ordinance.

Since the Ordinance was born up to now, it has been more than 70 years, but still retains its theoretical and practical meaning, illuminating the cause of protecting and promoting the cultural heritage of the country. It is a view of the important role of cultural heritage in the cause of national construction and development, inheritance in cultural development, the responsibility of the State, society and each citizen in the protect cultural heritage …

Hoang Thanh Thang Long, preserving and promoting the value of national cultural heritages.

Exhibition of archives ‘Hanoi and the Gate Gates’

Thầy trò Trường THCS Nguyễn Tri Phương dâng hương tưởng nhớ Tổng đốc Hoàng Diệu

Pottery in the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long during the Tran Dynasty