TAILIEUCHUNG - Thanh Hoa Identity from the Perspective of the Traditional Cultural Origin

The identity is seen as a cultural code that has been strengthening the community cohesion through the entire history. At the same time, it helps to create new jumps in development and disclose hindrances in the current context of comprehensive international integration. | Thanh Hoa Identity from the Perspective of the Traditional Cultural Origin Tran Thi An* Abstract: Xứ Thanh (Thanh Hoa Province) is a cultural sub-region with two prominent characteristics, including: the transition-based (from the geographical, historical, linguistic, and cultural perspectives) and the crystallization-based (mainly from the historical, cultural, and human perspectives). The two characteristics made a contribution towards formation of people’s identity in this “sacred land”, where the talent and spirit of many extraordinary people were tempered in various periods of the national history. The identity is seen as a cultural code that has been strengthening the community cohesion through the entire history. At the same time, it helps to create new jumps in development and disclose hindrances in the current context of comprehensive international integration. What we have to do about the regional cultural identity is to recognize the strengths and minimize the inertia-based hindrances, which tend to arise not only in the area of Thanh Hoa but also all over the country. Key words: Identity; culture; traditional; modern; Thanh Hoa; Xứ Thanh. 1. Introduction Thanh Hoa appeared for the first time as a lộ (an administrative unit like a province) at the time of the Ly Dynasty and was then founded administratively as a province in 1841 (at the ruling era of Thieu Tri, the Nguyen Dynasties). In reality, however, Thanh Hoa was formed and known as a cultural sub-region a long time ago in history. There have been many research works analyzing the cultural identity of this area [3, 6, 8, 9, 14, 17]. In this paper, I would like to re-affirm and highlight some marginal features to show the formation of this cultural sub-region, based on its natural and geographical conditions as well as its socio - humanity context and historical karma. Regarding to those factors, it is easy to realize the transition - based and the crystallization - based .

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• Thanh Hoa Identity
• The Perspective of the Traditional Cultural Origin
• Thanh Hoa Province
• The entire history Vietnam
• Comprehensive international integration
• International integration
• Urbanization in Vietnam
• Comprehensive development
• Economy and society
• Free trade agreement
• Global trade
• Trans Pacific Partnership
• Commodity trade
• ASEAN Economic Community
• Agricultural sector
• International economic integration
• Institutional framework
• Comprehensive security