The Management Board for the Forestry Development Project to improve people’s lives in the Central Highlands, based in Kon Tum province, presented four sets of gongs to the Xe Dang ethnic minority group in Dak Psi commune, Dak Ha district, Kon Tum province.
Each set of gongs is worth of nearly 20 million VND. On behalf of the Xe Dang ethnic minority group, Y Dim, vice chairwoman of Dak Psi commune said that the gongs are a means to affirm the community characteristics and cultural identity of the Central Highlands in general and Xe Dang ethnic minority group in particular. They are closely associated with cultural and spiritual life of local people, from birth to death.
Xe Dang ethnic minority people are glad to receive the gongs and will work to preserve the cultural space of the Central Highlands gongs./.
|