A gaggle of French print and electronic-media journalists have been in the central city of Hue since the beginning of this month to report on culture and tourism in the heritage city.

They are from leading newspapers like Le Monde and L’Express and channels like France Television, TV Matin, and TV Escale.

With the help of Trinh Bach, a researcher of Hue culture, they have been exploring elements of the city’s culture, including popular and royal architecture, and interviewing craftspeople and people who lived when the last feudal dynasty was still ruling in the 1940’s.

Bach himself featured in a show on his work to restore traditional Vietnamese cultural values by the tourism channel TV Escale.

Bach is renowned for reviving lost crafts like palace-style hand embroidery, china-making, and wood and silver carving. He has also successfully restored the elaborate costumes worn by kings and queens of Nguyen Dynasty.

The TV shows on Hue will be broadcast in September.

 
(Source: VNA)