The event is jointly organized by the Consulate General of Hungary in HCM City and the municipal Fine Arts Museum.

Hungarian Consul General Baloghdi Tibor said the exhibition features the daily life and belief, and traditions of Bru-Van Kieu people, a typical ethnic group living in upland areas in Southeast Asia, and one of the 54 ethnic minority groups in Vietnam.

Author Vargyas Gabor introduce visitors to the photos on display at the exhibition.

The event shows close cooperation and exchange between Vietnamese and Hungarian scientists in particular, and other cooperation fields in between the two nations, he stressed.

Vargyas Gabor, an author of the photos, said his works were taken between 1985-1989 during his field trips in Khe Sanh of the north central province of Quang Tri within the cooperation framework between the two countries’ academies of science.

He said that through the exhibition, he wants to tell visitors a story about faith and life.

The event will run through February 28, and then it will move to Khe Sanh. All of the photos will be presented to Quang Tri province after the exhibition.

Mong ethnic minorities’ culture introduced in France

Forty-nine objects featuring the Mong ethnic minority group are being displayed at the La Rochelle Natural History Museum of France’s Nouvelle Aquitaine region from January 31 till December 31, 2019.

 

Vietnamese language teaching enhanced for ethnic children

Children of the ethnic minority groups now feel more confident to attend primary schools as the language barrier has been gradually removed.

 

Festival to honour Vietnamese ethnic groups’ culture

A wide range of activities will be held to honor cultural identities of 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups at a festival in Hanoi from February 12-13.

 

Raglai ethnic people’s ceremony recognized as national intangible heritage

The “Bo ma” (farewell to the dead) ceremony of the Raglai ethnic minority people in the south central province of Ninh Thuan has been recognized as the national cultural intangible heritage.

 

How H'Mong ethnic people in northern Vietnam celebrate Lunar New Year

Invited to the far north for New Year by an ethnic family, I was served rat meat and pig blood soup.

 

Source: NDO