报告题目：Wood and Wood Utilization of Some Ethnic Minorities in Central Highlands (Southerm) of Vietnam
报告时间：2016年3月22日
报告地点：尼泊尔加德满都 尼泊尔学院
报告嘉宾：Kien Nguyen Trong，越南林业大学

摘要：

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, is located from Nourtherm to Southerm of Vietnam, in which the largest is Kinh ethnic. Central Highland located at Southerm of Vietnam, where some ethnic minorities have been lived. The life of them has enclsose relationship with forest and wood from forest. This paper researched on the way to utilize wood of some ethnic in the Central Highland of Vietnam, in Gialai and Kontum province.

The research showed this ethnic used wood mainly in architecture and grave house. In architecture, The Rong house is the most famous architecture, it is a symbol of the culture of Central Highland, an age-old and stable culture. The bigger the house, the wealthier the village is. It is a pride of the whole village. The Rong house can only be found in villages in Gialai and Kontum provinces. It is a large, imposing, beautifully decorated stilt house built in the middle of the village. It is where community activities take place, reception of guests, meetings, wedding ceremonies, or praying ceremonies.

The Rong House of each ethnic group has its own architectural style, design, and decor. In the village, it is often the biggest house roofed and having 8 big wood columns. The connection of wood frame house is used by tenon. The wood ussually used for house is high quality wood. In the grave house, according to aged old customs of ethnic minority groups in the Central Highland, after the burial of the deceased they built house to shelter from rain and sunshine. The grave house is surrounded with a wooden fence within there is a wooden statue resembling a human being, a bird or an animal. Expressiveness and shape of the statue reflects the daily activities and cultural of human, like as couples embracing, pregnant women, and people in mourning, elephants and birds.

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