Many special events will be held within Hung Kings Temple Festival 2023
(BNP) - The Hung Kings Temple Festival 2023 and the Culture and Tourism Week of Ancestral Land 2023 will be held from April 20 to April 29 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism coordinated with the People's Committee of Phu Tho province.
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This year’s festival will highlight the values of two provincial cultural heritages that have been recognised by UNESCO as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, namely the worship of Hung Kings and xoan folk singing.
Besides traditional rituals like incense offering and the palanquin procession, the Hung Kings Temple Festival and the Culture and Tourism Week of Ancestral Land 2023 will include performances of intangible cultural heritages of Viet Nam honoured by UNESCO, and the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the implementation of the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
A conference on promoting cultural heritages in association with tourism development and a photo exhibition of Viet Nam’s legendary capital lands will also take place within the nine-day festival.
Visitors to the Vietnamese ancestral land will be immersed in numerous sports and cultural activities, like the swimming contest, a football and a volleyball tournament, xoan singing and water puppetry performances.
To those interested in tourism, food and fashion should not miss the Chung cake cooking or Day cake pounding contests, food festival, the Northwestern Tourism Fair, children’s Ao Dai (traditional long dress) festival, the Cultural Camp and Art Festival to celebrate the legacy of the Hùng Kings and a tourist trip to explore the ancestral land.
This year's festival activities will be closely linked with tourism to attract visitors while widely promoting the potential and strengths of Phu Tho’s cultural tourism resources.
