The ceremony recognising the royal literature on Hue royal architecture as a documentary heritage of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) was organized on June 11, in Hue City.
Royal literature on Hue royal architecture as a documentary heritage. Photo:khamphahue
The heritage has been highly appreciated by MOWCAP and met the criteria in the registry dossiers formed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The poetry on the Hue royal architecture includes Chinese-language scripts in the form of poems that were meticulously carved onto clusters of three wooden plates and wooden walls built during the Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945).The ‘One Poem and One Painting’ decoration style on the Hue royal architecture was formed and developed during the Nguyen Dynasty and became the court’s rule in decorating royal architecture from then on.
Many experts, researchers and culture managers evaluated the works as special decorative arts that had been made and preserved in Ha Tinh province. The heritage is unique in the world with diverse contents found on different materials, including wood, stone, bronze, enamel, ceramics and lacquer.
Up to now, Viet Nam is home to 06 heritages as a documentary heritage of the MOWCAP as follows: 82 stone steles in Ha Noi’s Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam (the Temple of Literature), Nguyen Dynasty’s royal administrative documents, woodblocks of the Nguyen Dynasty; and the collection of wooden blocks carved with Buddhist sutras at Vinh Nghiem Pagoda in Bac Giang Province; wooden blocks of Phuc Giang school and One Poem and One Painting decoration style on the Hue royal architecture.