The first Ban Gioc Waterfall Festival and Then Singing and Dan Tinh Performance - Cao Bang 2017 officially opened in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang’s Trung Khanh District on October 7.
Viet Nam will submit dossiers asking UNESCO to recognise the Tay and Nung ethnic people’s Then Singing Practice as a world intangible cultural heritage before March 31, according to the government office’s official document.
Then singing, also called Lau Then, is a traditional kind of ritual singing of the Nung. Then singing reflects the Nung’s religious life as well as their cultural values.
"Hat Then" or the Then singing of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups in Lang Giang, Yen The, Luc Ngan, Luc Nam and Son Dong districts has been recognized as the national intangible heritage.
(TITC) - On 15th September, in Ha Noi, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in coordination with People's Committee of Tuyen Quang Province organized a press conference to introduce “The 5th art festival of Then singing and Tinh instrumental music of ethnic groups of Tay, Nung, Thai” in Tuyen Quang on 24th -26th September.
A festival promoting the brand of Dai Tu tea in the northern province of Thai Nguyen officially kicked off on January 25 at the Dai Tu district’s stadium, as one of the annual major economic, cultural and tourism events in the province.
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang, one of the cradles of Hat Then (Then singing), is working hard to hasten the compilation of a dossier seeking UNESCO’s recognition of the musical genre as a piece of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.