Provincial People’s Committee directs to promote Dong Ho folk paintings

Dong Ho folk painting products.

To continue promoting Dong Ho folk paintings to international friends, and in order to promote the inclusion of “Dong Ho folk painting craft” in the List of intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection in 2025, the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee requested the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to provide Dong Ho folk paintings, traditional Quan Ho costumes, etc. to display at the Bac Ninh cultural space located at the headquarters of Vietnamese diplomatic missions abroad as proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

At the same time, the Department gives Dong Ho folk paintings to the Central Party Office, the President’s Office, the Government Office, the Office of the National Assembly and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as diplomatic gifts for the reception and working activities with international guests of Party and State leaders. It also researches and proposes new forms of gifts from Dong Ho folk paintings such as: catalogues, albums with explanations in different languages, new-style Dong Ho folk painting products.

The Office of the Provincial People’s Committee connects and coordinates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to synthesize the needs and proposals of Vietnamese representative offices abroad in building a Bac Ninh cultural space to display and introduce Dong Ho folk paintings, traditional Quan Ho costumes, etc. and send them to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism for deployment and implementation.