Colorful costumes of Vietnamese ethnic women

(CLO) On January 11, 2025, in Hanoi, the National Political Publishing House (Publisher) Truth coordinated with the Ethnic Committee to organize the book launch event "Research: Colorful costumes of women of Vietnamese ethnic groups" (bilingual Vietnamese - English) by author Nguyen Bong Mai.

The book is the result of a journey across the S-shaped land called "99 days across Vietnam with Mai" to learn about culture, life, people and especially the characteristics of each ethnic group through costumes and inspirational stories.

Author Nguyen Bong Mai has researched, recorded, and vividly recreated 55 unique costumes with nearly 1,000 details on the costumes from meetings with people of 35 ethnic groups, opening up stories about culture, history, and tradition.

The book "Travel: Colorful costumes of women of Vietnamese ethnic groups" by author Nguyen Bong Mai. Photo: Van Toan

Not simply a photo book, recording costumes, but the book will bring a lot of emotions through telling vivid, humane historical and cultural stories about the identity of each nation, expressed through unique, sophisticated costumes.

The costumes are drawn and redesigned by a group of young people from Gen Z. The book takes readers into a colorful space of costumes of ethnic women of Mong, Khang, Dao, Tay, Nung, Thai... Each costume has its own unique characteristics, and the people preserve its identity through each pattern, weaving, embroidery, dyeing, printing, and beading techniques.

At the event, Mr. Vo Van Be - Deputy Director - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House, Truth, said that Vietnamese national costumes are one of the interesting topics because they not only bring creative beauty but also the unique identity of ethnic groups/ethnic groups.

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, each with its own lifestyle and way of dressing. Although there is now a slight saturation, there is still a distinction that can be recognized just by looking at it. The traditional costumes of each ethnic group have a cultural beauty, a unique identity in each region of the country, but all of them blend together to depict the beauty and cultural depth of the cultural picture of the 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.

Scene of the book launch event. Photo: Van Toan

"Each costume presented in the book is a work of art that combines many elements: shape, craft techniques, colors and folk knowledge. More deeply, it can contain stories about culture, history, art, and is an expression and crystallization of the quintessence of ethnic culture" - Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House, Truth, emphasized.

At the book launch ceremony, delegates had the opportunity to interact with the book's author and comrade Nguyen Thai Binh , Deputy Director of the National Political Publishing House Truth, thereby clarifying the contents related to the topic, readers, special features of the book; the journey to complete the work from the time it was an idea, the difficulties, special memories and experiences of the author; the significance of publishing the book; the Publisher's perception and assessment of the book's differences compared to other book genres; the Publisher's plan in 2025 for travel books, travelogues, similar to this book...

To popularize and spread the valuable content of the book to a wide range of readers, in parallel with publishing traditional paper books, the Truth National Political Publishing House will publish an electronic version, serving readers on the website https://sachquocgia.vn/.

PV

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