With Hue ao dai, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has registered "Knowledge of sewing and wearing Hue ao dai" as a national intangible cultural heritage. Previously, the Department of Culture and Sports of Thua Thien Hue province submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to consider including the heritage "Custom tailoring and the custom of using Hue ao dai". When recognizing it, the Ministry distinguished it in The phrase "Knowledge of sewing and wearing Hue ao dai" is a national intangible cultural heritage.
Similarly, "Cu Lao Cham field corn hammock weaving"; "Pho Nam Dinh"; "Mi Quang"... has also just been recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage this time.
With "Hue ao dai", it is understood that the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has recognized the value of "tailoring knowledge" and "the practice of wearing ao dai of Hue people" as Cultural Heritage. With "Nam Dinh Pho" and "Quang Noodles", the Ministry recognizes "folk knowledge" about Pho and Noodles as intangible culture...
The regulations are very clear, but immediately after publication, there were many questions and controversies. Many opinions believe that regulating the phrase "folk knowledge" for ao dai, pho, noodles... is narrowing the intangible cultural value of these heritages.
"Phi" in the phrase intangible cultural values means "no", but completely different from the meaning of "nothing", "nothing"... The word phi mainly comes before nouns, meaning "not based on" that object. "Phi" used in the phrase "intangible cultural heritage" is properly understood as cultural values that do not rely on physical objects after and longer than the existence of the object.
Therefore, ao dai is said to be an intangible cultural heritage, not only "sewing knowledge" and "custom of wearing ao dai", but also the traditional occupations of growing mulberry trees, raising silkworms, and weaving. It is a custom, a ritual... associated with the sewing and use of ao dai. Looking at the ao dai, you can distinguish people from which region, Bac Ninh, Hue, or Ninh Thuan... You can distinguish which historical period the ao dai belongs to. Ao Dai also has its own standards for office workers, for housewives, for worshiping rituals, for funerals, for wedding dresses, for fashion... All of these values are intangible culture.
The intangible cultural value of Pho Nam Dinh or Mi Quang is not limited to "folk knowledge". Not only is it the knowledge, experience, and understanding accumulated and passed down through many generations in a community... but also the entire cultural region with many broad meanings in both space and time of the community. noodles, pho.
Honoring intangible cultural heritage not only recognizes the "folk knowledge" of that object, but also protects the spiritual and aesthetic cultural values hidden behind that cultural life space. , promoting the value of intangible cultural heritage.
Just like it is necessary to protect the "cultural space" in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage "Cultural space of gongs in the Central Highlands" - not just "folk knowledge" about gongs in the Central Highlands.
