Tuong in Hue, Vietnam: Bodily Practice and Cultural Memory in the Context of World Cultural Heritage City

Abstract

The title of my research: Tuong in Hue, Vietnam: Bodily Practice and Cultural Memory in the Context of World Cultural Heritage City.

The topic has four research objectives:

1. Research on the history of the birth and development of Vietnamese Hue Tuong,

2. Research on the practice of Hue Tuong's body through specific elements such as Face painting art, a system of typical characters, psychological characteristics of characters, costumes, body language, body movements, choreography, dance and unity through some typical character models.

3 Research on the cultural memory of Hue Tuong through contents such as The identity values ​​of ancient Hue Tuong, national aesthetic conventions, influences and exchanges in performing arts, lessons on behaviour, ethics and social aesthetics of Hue Tuong in modern life,

4 Research on the Hue Tuong Street Performance Festival: "Echoes of a Thousand Years" to see the importance and influence of this festival on the orientation of preserving and developing the values ​​and identities of Hue Tuong in modern life and the context of Hue as a city of world cultural heritage.

With qualitative research methods: analysis, comparison, synthesis from document sources through field research tools, observation, interviews and through reference books, newspapers, magazines... the recommendations made in the study are given to authorities at all levels, management agencies as a basis for preserving and promoting the identity values ​​of Hue Tuong in the context of Hue being a world cultural heritage city, along with a source of documents provided to researchers, academics and those interested in making scientific research materials, teaching...

Hue Tuong is a scholarly art form, a unique stage art, and a complex of many art forms such as painting, singing, dancing, music, and poetry.

As an art form with a highly symbolic and generalized nature, Hue Tuong actors use the art of body practice through elements such as face painting, costumes, dialogue, music, and body movements... to express the character's personality traits such as loyal people, flatterers, noble people, mean people, righteous people, evil people... all of the above elements have been systematically theorized by generations of artists and recognized by the masses.

As a part of Hue Royal Court Music, Hue Tuong is a scholarly art form. Hue Tuong needs to preserve and promote its traditional values, especially when Hue becomes a heritage city.

Hue Tuong, with elements of physical art practice, has left valuable lessons on shaping and aesthetics, containing great values ​​of humanistic philosophy and moral and cultural ideology associated with cultural memories, contributing to expressing the cultural identity of Hue as well as Vietnamese culture.

Hue Tuong is facing challenges and difficulties: The public has not had much access to it (young people: most of them are not interested because they do not understand the good, the beautiful, the philosophical meaning, the philosophy...), the diversity of performing art forms, the development of science and technology, modern life with many forms of aesthetic enjoyment... creating strong competition.

The connection of Hue Tuong with society is not high; the plays are only performed in theatres and are not promoted and developed in social life. The life and income of Tuong artists are still difficult and hard.

Hue is a heritage city and a tourist city, but it has not yet exploited the values ​​of visual arts and applied Hue Tuong art to tourism. There have been many research works on Hue Tuong, but most of them are studies on literary elements (script, history...), while there are not many research works on visual arts and applications.

To research the Body Practice and Cultural Memory of Hue Tuong through the following elements: Face painting, costumes, psychological characteristics of characters, character models, body performance art, choreography, dance... of Hue Tuong from the perspective of cultural and aesthetic approaches, to affirm the values ​​of Hue Tuong art, contributing to preserving and promoting the values ​​of Hue Tuong in the development of modern life, in the context of Hue as a World Heritage city.

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