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Vietnam’s gongs resound at Paris Tropical Carnival
16:13, 2014/07/07
The cultural space of gongs in the Central Highlands of Vietnam was introduced in the 2014 Paris Tropical Carnival, which took place in Paris’s Leon Blum Square on July 5.
 
A gong team of the Ba Na ethnic minority group from the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum brought to the event the deep and strong sounds of gongs and the vigorous dances of Ba Na girls, giving the audience a glimpse into the ancient hunter-gatherer traditions and the cultural environment of ethnic groups in the region, which is the nation’s cradle for gongs.
The cultural space of gongs was recognised as a Masterpiece of the Oral and an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005. Tran Thi Binh, deputy director of the Kon Tum Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said the set of gongs played at the event was made 300 years ago and the artists themselves are local farmers who practice gong whenever they have free time in order to perform at village festivals.
The gong artists helped spread the image of a modern Vietnam with rich traditions and culture, said Duong Chi Dung, the Vietnamese ambassador to France.
Organised in July every year in the French capital since 2002, the Carnival aims to honour the cultural diversity of the country’s immigrant communities.
This year’s event attracted 4,000 performers from nearly 40 international art troupes. Participants and local people joined together in a procession along a 4.5 km stretch of road in Paris.
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