VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCES ----------------------------------------------------- TRAN KIM CUC DOI SON CULTURAL SPACE, DUY TIEN DISTRICT, HA NAM PROVINCE MASTER’S THESIS Major: Vietnamese studies Hanoi-2012 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCES ----------------------------------------------------- TRAN KIM CUC DOI SON CULTURAL SPACE, DUY TIEN DISTRICT, HA NAM PROVINCE MASTER’S THESIS Major: Vietnamese studies Code: 60 31 60 Supervisor: Assoc.Lam Thi My Dung Hanoi-2012 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to express my gratitude and deepest respect to Assoc.Lam Thi My Dung, my supervisor, who enthusiastic instruct and conveysbasic knowledge to me, as well as contributes valuable ideas to help me complete this thesis. I would like to sincerely thank the Management Board, the teachers, and staff of the Institute of Vietnamese Studies and Development Sciences, Vietnam National University. They have created the best conditions for me to participate in the learning process and complete successfully my MA course. I am also thankful to the People’s Committee of Doi Son commune for creating the best conditions for me to complete my research trip.
I would like to especially thank Mr. Le The Quan (one leader of People’s Committee of Doi Son commune), Mr. Dinh Van Nuong (one leader of Doi Tam village, Doi Son commune), Mr. Thich Thanh Vu (monk of Long Doi Son pagoda), Mr.
Pham Chi Khang (one of two experts of Doi Tam drum village) that enthusiastically provide me information and statistic data during my fact-finding time. I would like to express my sincere thanks to the people of Doi Son commune for their enthusiasm in supplying me information during my field work in these areas. Finally, I would like to thank my family and friends who always care, share, motivate and encourage me. Hanoi, Date: 09/05/2012 Sign Full name Tran Kim Cuc LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com COMMITMENT I hereby declare that the researched results in this thesis are absolutely honest.
Information and results published in this thesis are my researching work. If there is any shortcoming, I will bear all responsibilities before the training unit and the law. Hanoi, Date: 09/05/2012 Sign Full name Tran Kim Cuc LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF OF TABLES. 3 LIST OF FIGURES.
Reason for selecting the topic. Sciencetisic signification and graptical signification. History of research. Object and Scope of Study.
Purpose and study methodology. Structure of the thesis. 14 Chapter 1: THE FORMING FACTORS OF DOI SON CULTURAL SPACE .1 The theory of cultural space .2 Approaching Doi Son cultural space .1 The natural elements .2 Conditions of history and residents .3 The socio-economics conditions .4 Political-Economic-Social Center .5 The combination of material and spiritual culture. 39 Chapter 2: THE SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF DOI SON CULTURAL SPACE .1 The specific characteristic of material culture .1 Overview of material life .2 The specific characteristics of spiritual culture .1 Overview of spiritual cullture .4 Religions and beliefs.
74 CHAPTER 3: DOI SON CULTURAL SPACE IN SON NAM CULTURAL SUB- AREA .1 The name“Son Nam” and “Son Nam cultural sub-area” .1 Place name “Son Nam” .2 The delmitation of Son Nam cultural sub-areas .2 Son Nam culture in Doi Son culture .1 Natural and socio-economic conditions. 80 1 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.3 Differences of Doi Son cultural space in Son Nam cultural sub-area.4 The position and role of Doi Son cultural space in Son Nam cultural sub-area. The general conclusions. 103 2 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF TABLES Table 1.1: Table of planting rice of Doi Son commune (Unit: ha).2: Table of raising of Doi Son commune (unit: con).1: Structure of the economic of Son Nam sub-area in 2010 (unit: %) (Source: Reports of the provinces in 2010) 3 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1.1: The Map of Doi Son commune (http://maps.1: The Map of Son Nam sub-area in four defence areas of Thang Long capital (http://vi.org) 4 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.
Reason for selecting the topic Nowadays, when the life becomes more modern, much traditional values have been eroded. However, the true culture values will still exist and develop forever. There are many cultural studies are implemented and our thesis is one of them. We would like to help people to understand more about a small part of Vietnamese culture.
In Doi Moi period, our Party very appreciated the field of Art- Culture and saw it as an important tool in ideological work. Our Party concentrated on building an advance culture but respecting the national character. The research of Doi Son Culture will help people to understand more about this place, which contributes to promote the national culture and reserve the national ancient foundation. Cultural Space is not a new sector in cultural research.
Scientists still study to unite the concept of cultural space. At present, the studies of local cultural space are not much; so that the Study of Doi Son cultural space could add more neccessary knowledge about a new cultural space to the abundant diverse cuture of Vietnam. Then, we can give an overview to complete the process of scientific research about cultural space. The writer expects to bring the full knowledge about Doi Son cultural space, forming factors, the region of absorbtion and diffusion, etc.
to all readers. Doi Son is the land brings many precious cultural values inside. However, even local people who is living here does not know about the values of archaeology, history, culture of Doi Son. There were no real studies about this region, just some basic knowledge.
Therefore, Doi Son culture needs to be researched carefully, objectively and completely as a real cultural space. The writer was born and grown up in Ha Nam province having some knowledge about native culture. With the love of country and the passion of cultural learning, we decided to implement and explore this subject. We look forward this thesis can provide an overall and multi-dimensional view about “Doi Son cultural space”.
5 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. Sciencetisic signification and graptical signification Sciencetisic signification: Cutural space research in general and regional culture research in particular is a meaningful work. Regional culture is a kind of cultural space. And the diversity of regional cuture is the most typical in the diversity of cuture.
Doi Son cultural space research will help us to know cultural zoning exactly and orient the process of cultural research. Graptical signification: Cultural space research will contribute to increase awareness, inherit and develop the local traditional culture in the modern society. This is a great meaningful doing for the life of Doi Son people today. Doi Son cultural space reflects many aspects of belief, custom, habit, thought, emotion and soul’s depth of people.
Research of Doi Son cultural space will affirm the traditional values that Doi Son people have created and preserved for many generations. Moreover, it also contributes to promote Doi Son cultural space to other regions in the country. History of research *History of cultural space study *In the world: Cultural space has been mentioned for a long time. However, until late 19th century and early 20th century, the scientific theories of cultural space appeared in the world.
In the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century, L. Taylor were leaders of evolutional school; the book “Xã hội cổ đại” by L. Morgan was published in 1934, the book “Văn hóa nguyên thủy” by E. Taylor was published in 1939.
Two authors mentioned directly the cultural similarities and differences. Through the materials on myths, kinship systems and some other cultural phenomena, they had initially explained the cultural similarities starting from the common origin as well as the exchange and interaction among nations. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, theory of cultural diffusion in Western Europe appeared, including three major schools: culture- history 6 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail.com in German- Austrian , “age and area” in North America, cultural diffusion in the UK. The theories went into the aspects of interaction, cultural influences, especially from the diffuse center to the places, creating the dynamics of cultural development.
This book represents the “Khuếch tán- Đại từ điển Bách khoa Xô Viết” by Perxik AI, published in 1972. Theory of cultural diffusion in each school offering its own opinion, but are intended as Perxik wrote, “to explain the development of culture and civilization is not an independent evolution, but the original or even by borrowing or by the cultural achievements of the migration of the ethnic make up” [36, pg. Early twentieth century, theory of American cultural area appeared, with two representatives who were CL. The typical book is “American Indian” of CL.
Wisler, published in 1922. According to this theory, the culture of each ethnic group was formed in the course of history associated with a natural environment, certain social. Studying a cultural region must research from a combination of cultural factors, they combine into a unified whole can not be separated. Theory “cultural center” is a region of power absorption, diffuse large culture, affecting more peripheral areas.
This is one of the most important points in CL. Wisler’s theory of cultural area. He said the culture in center always bear the more typical characteristics than culture outside the center. This theory was considered a significant advance of scientific knowledge with issues of cultural similarities and existing space of cultural factors.
The theory of cultural- historical region was born in the first half of the twentieth century with the representation is MGLevin, NN Trebocxarop. This book represents the “Dân tộc, chủng tộc và văn hóa” by N. Trebocxarop, published in 1971. They introduced the concept of cultural- historical region.
Accordingly, the similarities in geographical environment, the original and historical relationship between ethnic groups are conditions for the formation of common characteristics. Cultural characteristic of the cultural- historical region is a set of cultural elements linked organically together. They are showed clearly in material culture and spiritual 7 LUAN VAN CHAT LUONG download : add luanvanchat@agmail. They said that cultural-historical region is a historical category, which forms and changes in different historical periods.
They also divided the cultural-historical levels, they are: domain, region, subregion, area, sub-area. Born in the early twentieth century was the theory of socio-cultural (Russia), with representatives SP.Tonstop, MG Levin, N. Trebocxarop…the theory of socio- cultural of Soviet scholars in “Type of economy -culture and history-ethnography region” of Levin MG and Trebocxarov, published in 1955. This theory explains the phenomenon of cultural convergence.
They introduced the concept of socio-cultural “an overall economic and cultural characteristics formed in the history of different people, at the same level of economic- social development and living in the same natural geographic environment” [55, pg. Through the cultural theories above, we find these theories and schools reflect the evolution of human awareness of cultural space, that means the cultural similarities and differences. The theory of the cultural region has started from the conception of the evolunists and propagators. After that, the theories of cultural forms and the cultural area of American anthropological schools, especially the cultural-historical theory of Soviet school had made shapes and completed the theory of cultural region.
This theory has recognized the cultural issues on the basis methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism. It was initially viewed the cultural phenomena in the relationship with economic- social foundation and in specific history of each nation, each region. This was an important step in the process of awareness and explanation the cultural similarities and differences among different communities and regions. *In Vietnam, the issue of cultural space research is the development through other stages.