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Hanoi culture after 10 years of expanding administrative boundaries: Inspiring young generations

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The decision on expanding Hanoi’s administrative boundaries in 2008 has been approved by the National Assembly, the Party and the State as the historical fact relating to the country’s development in the 21st century and next centuries. Historically, this event is a remarkable process. Wholeheartedly for Hanoi Thousands of years ago, the transfer from Hoa..

The decision on expanding Hanoi’s administrative boundaries in 2008 has been approved by the National Assembly, the Party and the State as the historical fact relating to the country’s development in the 21st century and next centuries. Historically, this event is a remarkable process.

Wholeheartedly for Hanoi

Thousands of years ago, the transfer from Hoa Lu to Dai La (later renamed into Thang Long) in 1010 with the “Edict on the Transfer of the Capital” of the King Ly Thai To brought the history of the country to a new page of the forever survival and thrive. I do not intend to compare the movement of the Thang Long capital of King Ly Thai To nearly 1000 years ago with now. But the “capital movement” and “capital expansion” of Thang Long – Hanoi in different times have different vision, purpose and meaning, and the next generation, we will have the objective comments on the “historical vision” of these events.

I just want to mention something remarkable, after two years from 2008, the country celebrates 1000 years of Thang Long – Hanoi, we have expanded the administrative boundaries of the capital. Is it possible to do the thing with “historical significance” as expanding the administrative boundaries to celebrate the historic event of Thang Long – Hanoi of thousands of years ago in the orientation of development and innovation of the modern country?

In 2010, in an interview with writer Nguyen Khac Phuc, who was invited by the City to write two scripts for the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi event, he told that: “How does Thang Long survive and stand for a thousand years? Certainly, not with arms, not by human and land advantages. In my opinion, Thang Long is able to survive for the thousand years by heroic and cultural attitudes. Thang Long stood firm because the dynasties know how to gather the patriotism of people. This is not the story of yesterday and not the story of tomorrow when the Thang Long spirit is still the strength of the end.…”.

In the same conversation, Nguyen Khac Phuc said that he wrote a detailed script for the entire cultural and artistic night that took place in exactly 100 minutes at the request of the Deputy Prime Minister at that time. . In his creative life, Nguyen Khac Phuc has written 12 novels, 12 film scripts, 70 theater scripts, and dozens of festival scriptsm including two scenarios for the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi. During the fight against cancer, Nguyen Khac Phuc is constantly creating artistic culture.

I repeat these stories to say that, in the important historic time of the expanding the administrative boundaries of the capital and the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi, there is a writer as culturist, Nguyen Khac Phuc who has lived on every page to contribute to the Thang Long of thousand years and for Hanoi today from the perspective of cultural history.

 

 The Princess Palace, Imperial Citadel of Thang Long. Picture: Van Phuc

Attention to preserving cultural values

The history of the Capital and thousand years of country’s building and keeping only can shown in the system of ancient relics, literary heritage and intangible cultural values. It can be affirmed that, after the expansion of its administrative boundaries, all levels of the city have paid great attention to the preservation of traditional cultural values, and good cultural practices of Trang An and Doai culture is increasingly maintained and promoted.

The city also facilitates the preservation and development of cultural values in accordance with the thousand years of civilization. The great celebration of 1000 years has been celebrated, honoring the fine traditional values of Thang Long – Hanoi, creating the good impression in the public and international friends.

Hanoi has always affirmed that historical and cultural relics and places of historical interest are the valuable source of evidence of formation and development process of the capital and the nation. Noteworthily, after Hanoi expanded its administrative boundaries, the localities with many historical and cultural relics were the districts of the Doai, such as Thuong Tin (440 relics), Ung Hoa (433 relics), Ba Vi (394 relics), Chuong My (374 relics), Phu Xuyen (345 relics), Soc Son (341 relics) … Meanwhile, the localities with little relics are most of the districts in the City such as Thanh Xuan (29 relics), Ba Dinh (47 relics), Cau Giay (49 relics), Hai Ba Trung (51 relics), Hoan Kiem (66 relics)…

This list shows that the ancient culture of Doai has contributed to the culture of ancient Thang Long culture.

Hanoi is also the first to issue regulations on management, protection and promotion of cultural and historical relics and beauty spots in the city. After annoucing the inventory list, Department of Culture and Information of Hanoi handed over the data and list of relics to the districts, towns and cities under the State management decentralization regulations and the requirements of the implementation of Regulations on management, protection and promotion of the historical and cultural values of relics and beauty spot. At the request of the Hanoi City People’s Committee, annually, the Department of Culture and Information must synthesize data on the changes of the number of relics to serve the management.

Over the past 10 years, the management, preservation and promotion of the value of relics in Hanoi has many positive changes, contributing to the wealth of Thang Long – Hanoi cultural heritage. Annually, the city requests the localities to continue reviewing and evaluating the status of each monument in order to have plans for restoration, embellishment, and districts to try to handle the degraded relics under existing conditions. The relics qualified for the ranking must be recorded in the completed documents to report to the City, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to deploy ratings. Hanoi also said that it is necessary to promote the value of relics such as propaganda to attract people to visit and strengthen socialization. Each district should select one or two typical relics and coordinate with functional branches to make the relics to become an attractive destination for visitors, contributing to introducing and promoting the history and culture of the homeland and the country.

Considering the above-mentioned activities, after 10 years of expanding the administrative boundaries and development, Hanoi capital with the preservation and recognition of the system of ancient cultural relics, traditional cultural values, intangible cultural values is still worthy of the top land of the thousand-year cultural and historical heritage in Vietnam.

According to the Economics & Urban Newspaper