Ceremony receiving Bai Choi’s UNESCO cultural heritage recognition to be held next week
VGP – A ceremony welcoming UNESCO’s recognition of Bai Choi to the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will be organized on May 5 in the central province of Binh Dinh.
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The Committee says Bai Choi singing met all criteria needed to be a representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity. It is a folk art form that originated in the south central region of Viet Nam and is popular in Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam,
It features lessons about morality, stories about love for the homeland, community relationships and life experience. As a community heritage, the genre has been taught down the years to families, villages, associations, clubs and schools.
So far, Viet Nam has 12 UNESCO-recognized Intangible Cultural Heritages, 10 of them are Representative Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity.
By Thuy Dung