Programme brings traditional culture closer to students in mountainous areas

ABO/NDO – A delegation of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee led by First Secretary Nguyen Anh Tuan visited and surveyed the implementation of a project titled ‘Bringing Traditional Culture Closer to Schoolchildren’ at the boarding school in Can Chu Phin Commune, Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province, on April 25.

Within the programme, the delegation presented 10 sets of traditional H’mong panpipes, 100 national flags, one set of drums, and 500 young pioneers’ red neckerchiefs to students at the school.

Gifts presented to schoolchildren at the event (Photo: VGP).

The elementary boarding school in Can Chu Phin Commune is providing education for hundreds of children from various ethnic groups including H’mong, Pu Peo, Pa Then, Lo Lo, Co Lao, Giay, and Dao.

According to Hoang Le Nhung, the school’s rector, in response to the ‘Bringing Traditional Culture Closer to Schoolchildren’ project, various folk games such as stick pushing and danh yen (a game similar to badminton using a shuttlecock made of bamboo stuck with some feathers) are staged during the break time for students at the school.

The students are also taught to play traditional musical instruments, sing folk songs, and do folk dances of ethnic groups in the locality.

In addition, they can also access books and documents on cultures of ethnic groups at the school’s library.
Students at the boarding school in Can Chu Phin Commune join a performance of folk songs and dances.

(Source: NDO)