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Students from Quoc Hoc High School participate in a performance staged by The Wall band.
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According to archeographer Tran Ly Ly, music and dance are used to tell a story honouring skillful hands of artisans.
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Bobby Kim, an artist of the Republic of Korea, performs at the ceremony.
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Hue, the last capital of the Vietnamese feudalism (the Nguyen Dynasty), still preserves almost the original tangible and intangible cultural heritages, including traditional craft villages.
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Many craft villages were established to serve the royal court and the daily life of local people at that time.
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Despite ups and downs, hundreds of craft villages have been preserved for hundreds of years, showing the strong vitality and gratitude to the ancestors of the ancient capital.
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Hue’s craft villages are divided into six main groups producing tools, interior decorations, garment, building materials, food, and jewelries.
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The preservation of traditional craft villages in Hue shows a very unique interference and combination of folklore and royal culture values in the former imperial city.
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It is a combination of the cuisine, the costumes, the architecture, and the rituals all mirrored in the traditional craft villages.
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Thanks to huge investments, craft villages in Hue have been developed into tourist attractions.
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Developing craft villages into a special tourism product is considered an effective way to preserve and honor the unique traditional cultural values in the locality.
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. The week-long festival not only shows the cultural values of the traditional craft villages but presents a chance for artisans and researchers, as well as domestic and international organizations to share experience in preserving and developing those villages.
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