ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL VALUES OF TILE-ROOFED BRIDGES IN THE NORTHERN DELTA REGION IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE

Abstract

In almost every region of the country, the presence of spans, bridges are considered as indispensable presences that, depending on the terrain of each village, they perform everyday functions as serving travel, connecting space and time, serving people’s daily living and livelihood needs. Those spans and bridges are always associated with the spiritual life, with the cultural living environment of a certain resident community. They become cultural symbols for the mark of a village, besides the “banyan trees, water wharf, communal house yard”, and sometimes, each bridge body also bears historical - cultural imprints / vestiges, with cultural, aesthetic - artistic characteristics, values of religious beliefs of each region. The tiled bridge system in Vietnam in general and the Northern Delta region in particular has unique architectural and sculptural artistic values, embodied in folklore expressed through the talented hands of ancient artisans.

Each bridge in a different space plays an important role in the indigenous cultural life in the countryside where it was born. From the current state of existence of the tile-roofed bridges in the Northern Delta region, it is essential to solve the core issues of scientific significance and practical application, raise the problem of dealing with the artistic and cultural values of the tile-roofed bridge to confirm the artistic and cultural values of folk architecture and sculpture in contemporary society.