Nguyen Dynasty’s royal documents’ value to be promoted
The Prime Minister has approved
a project on preserving and promoting the cultural value of the Nguyen
Dynasty’s royal administrative documents as documentary heritage of the
UNESCO’s Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific.
Nguyen Dynasty royal documents’ value to be promoted.
The project aims at providing people, both home and
abroad, with the valuable historical materials, serving historical studies,
and contributing to building and safeguarding the country, as well as
educating young generations on the nation’s historical and cultural
traditions.
The first phase of the project, running from 2016 to
2020, will focus on repairing damaged documents, making reproductions,
digitialising the documents, and holding seminars and training for those who
are directly involved in the preserving process.
A Vietnamese-English bilingual table of contents will
be established, while more publications on them will be introduced to the
public both home and abroad.
Between 2021 and 2025, the project’s database and
managing software are expected to be completed and upgraded in order to serve
research purposes, while online introductory information of the royal
documents will be presented in Chinese and French.
Under the project, the royal papers will also be
introduced at schools, while cooperation and exchanges with foreign countries
and organisations to promote the cultural value of the world-recognised
documents will be promoted.
The collection is comprised of 85,000 documents bearing
the seals of 11 Nguyen Kings (1802-1945), including royal edicts and decrees,
reports to the King, and credentials.
They valuable historical materials reflect the
political thoughts, guidelines and polices of the Vietnamese State in its
internal and external relations.
The documents also serve as an important legal basis
for affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over its sea and islands.
Among them, 18 were reports to the King providing
detailed information on the Nguyen Dynasty’s exercise of sovereignty over the
Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.
The documents also served as material sources for
Nguyen Dynasty historians to write the Dai Nam Thap Luc (Veritable Records of
Dai Nam) collection, which also proved Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang
Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos throughout its history.
Along with the Nguyen Dynasty’s royal administrative
documents, the UNESCO has recognised other Vietnamese items as documentary
heritage.
They are the 82 stone steles in Hanoi’s Van Mieu – Quoc
Tu Giam (the Temple of Literature) honouring the names of 2,313 doctorate
holders who passed the court exams during the Le – Mac Dynasty (16th – 18th
centuries); woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty; and the collection of wooden
blocks carved with Buddhist sutras at Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in Bac Giang
province; the royal literature on Hue royal architecture”; and the Phuc Giang
school woodblocks in central Ha Tinh province.
VNA
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Thứ Sáu, 3 tháng 6, 2016
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