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 Vietnam has announced it intends to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the Hung Temple situated in its northern Phu Tho province.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed the provincial administration and related agencies to do research and set up a data base on the temple and some other relics from the bronze and early iron ages. Once the task is finished, the government will ask UNESCO to confer recognition on the temple. Nguyen Thi Kim Hai, deputy chairwoman of the Phu Tho province people’s committee – or government – said cultural and archaeological experts and historians would be invited to assess the site’s tangible and intangible heritages. UNESCO has named seven world tangible and intangible heritages in Vietnam: Ha Long Bay, Phong Nha - Ke Bang, Hue, Hoi An, and My Son, Nha Nhac (Hue court music), and the culture of Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands)’s musical form Cong Chieng (gong). The Hung Temple is situated on the Nghia Linh mountain, in Phong Chau district. Every year the national Hung Temple festival, which runs for three days from the ninth of the third lunar month, is held to worship the Hung Kings, the mythical founders of the country. Recently declared a national holiday, the event attracts thousands of visitors. Source: Tuoi Tre – Compiled by Luu Thi Hong |
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