The Quan Ho singing class in the summer of 2025 organized by Bac Ninh Quan Ho Folk Song Theater attracted a large number of teenagers and children in the province to participate.
Realizing the responsibility of preserving the Quan Ho folk song heritage, for many years, the Hoai Thi Quan Ho Club, Lien Bao (Tien Du) has not only focused on teaching the Lien Anh and Lien Chi in the Club but also opened classes every summer. In 2025, the club's summer Quan Ho class for young people was opened from the beginning of June with more than 20 young people and children in the village participating in singing lessons on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings at the village communal house. Over the past 10 years, with the dedication and enthusiasm of experienced and talented artisans such as Nguyen Thi Lanh, Bui Thi Sinh... have taught hundreds of young people and children in the village with Quan Ho melodies with old and new lyrics, helping the young generations of Hoai Thi have a useful and practical summer and appreciate the value of their homeland's heritage.
Since 2009, when Quan Ho folk songs were recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, with her love for Quan Ho and the desire to pass it on to the younger generation of her hometown, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Thai has established and gathered children from 3 villages: Lung Giang, Lung Son, Due Dong (Lim town) to teach Quan Ho to children. The effective activities of the Quan Ho singing class for young children have attracted more and more children to participate. In 2018, the Lim town Quan Ho Club for Children was established, attracting more than 30 children to participate. To date, there are more than 50 members, many of whom are from 8 to 10 years old and are typical artists in their schools and classes.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Thai, Head of the Lim Town Quan Ho Children's Club, shared: During the summer, the Club continuously teaches Quan Ho every day of the week to the children. To help the children have a passion for Quan Ho and actively practice the singing, it is not only the dedication and enthusiasm of the Board of Directors, including the sisters: Nguyen Thi Lieu, Nguyen Thi Loi... but also the great contribution of the musicians in the Club, Nguyen Van Ngoc, Do Ba Hieu, Nguyen The Bep, who give the children the first rhythm and beat in learning to sing Quan Ho.
With the dedication of previous generations, many children in the Lim Town Quan Ho Children's Club won First, Second, and Third prizes at the provincial "Quan Ho Young Singers' Singing" competition. At this competition in 2025, the club had two children, Nguyen Phuong Quyen and Nguyen Hai Yen, 10 years old, winning Second prizes.
Not only clubs and localities actively teach Quan Ho to teenagers and children during the summer, but recently the Bac Ninh Quan Ho Folk Song Theater also organized a Quan Ho Folk Song singing class for teenagers and children in 2025 with nearly 200 children participating. In order to improve the quality of Quan Ho singing classes, right from the beginning of the summer, the Professional Department (Bac Ninh Quan Ho Folk Song Theater) has planned to guide Quan Ho clubs in the province to organize Quan Ho singing classes for teenagers and children. According to the Professional Department's assessment, this year, the number of teenagers and children participating in Quan Ho singing classes at clubs throughout the province is higher, especially the rate of boys registering to study has increased compared to previous years, this is a good thing in teaching Quan Ho. From these young Quan Ho seeds, it will signal the next generation in the clubs to have a balanced ratio of men and women in the future.
One generation teaches the other, the love of Quan Ho is naturally formed in the lifestyle of each family and community. From the young Quan Ho clubs established in all villages and hamlets of Bac Ninh, to the free classes, so that children can understand the beauty of Quan Ho through the transmission of love and passion of the previous generation of Lien Anh and Lien Chi... all have made the vitality of Quan Ho strong and flourish. In the locality, in the summer, children can immerse themselves in Quan Ho, and in the school year, they also have Quan Ho singing lessons. Bac Ninh Quan Ho folk songs have been taught in schools from primary to high school across the province since the 2011-2012 school year. Since then, cultural activities on holidays, anniversaries... in schools often have Quan Ho songs by young Lien Anh and Lien Chi.
With the passion and enthusiasm of the artisans and the dedication and responsibility of those working in cultural work, the transmission of heritage has been expanded in many different forms and scales of transmission. The movement of learning to sing Quan Ho is no longer limited to the scope and space of Bac Ninh province but is increasingly developing and spreading to many communities in provinces and cities in the country as well as internationally. Up to now, Bac Ninh has expanded from 44 original Quan Ho villages to 261 practicing Quan Ho villages and nearly 400 Quan Ho clubs. It is the respect for Quan Ho from families to communities that has helped the source of Quan Ho flow and reach far.
Minh Huong
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