The festival's activities are organized joyfully and healthily in close association with tourism, in order to introduce, promote and honor the values of the unique cultural heritage of the land of the ancestors.
The Hung Kings Commemoration Ceremony and Dat To Culture-Tourism Week in 2023 have been carefully prepared by Phu Tho province to ensure a solemn, solemn and respectful ceremony with a profound community character.
The festival's activities are organized joyfully and healthily in close association with tourism, in order to introduce, promote and honor the values of the unique cultural heritage of the land of the ancestors.
The ceremony is solemn, the festival is diverse
According to the Organizing Committee, the Hung Kings Commemoration Ceremony in 2023 will feature many activities to introduce and boldly promote the cultural heritages of Phu Tho province, especially the two Representative Cultural Heritages of Humanity recognized by UNESCO. It was named "Hung King Worshiping Belief" and "Phu Tho Xoan Singing" for people to understand more about the unique cultural values of Dat To.
Especially, in the days of Hung Kings Commemoration Ceremony and Dat To Culture-Tourism Week in 2023, the province will organize many traditional ceremonies such as: Incense offering ceremony in memory of Hung Kings; The death anniversary of Duc Quoc To Lac Long Quan; Incense offering ceremony to Mother Au Co; Incense offering ceremony at relics worshiping Hung Vuong and famous people and generals of Hung Vuong period in the province; Incense offering ceremony of districts, cities and towns at Hung Temple; The palanquin procession to Hung Temple is organized by communes, wards and towns in the vicinity of the relic.
At the historical site of Hung Temple and Viet Tri city, on April 21-29 (March 2-10 of the lunar calendar), sports and cultural activities will continue to take place such as: Opening ceremony " Hung Temple Festival and "Cultural-Tourism Week of the Land of Ancestors" in 2023" and "Week of Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed by UNESCO" at Hung Vuong Square, Viet Tri city; International Conference "Forum of Tourism, Culture, Heritage and Sustainable Development in Vietnam."
On this year's Hung Kings Commemoration Ceremony, visitors will be able to watch swimming competitions and stand-up paddleboard shows at Van Lang Park Lake; Football Tournament Hung Vuong Cup at Viet Tri Stadium; Volleyball tournament of strong national teams competing for Hung Vuong Cup in Viet Tri city.
In addition, visitors can attend many other events such as the Northwest Tourism Fair in 2023 and the Dat To Food Culture Festival at the Hung Temple Historic Site; Trade fairs and trade fairs in the Northeast region and contests for making Chung cake, pounding banh giay at Hung Temple Historic Site; performing drumming and drumming at the Hung Temple Historic Site; exhibition "Cultural Heritage, Tourism of the capital regions of Vietnam;" performing Water Puppetry for the Anniversary of Hung Kings at the Hung Temple Historic Site; performed ao dai and set a Guinness Vietnam record; competing in traditional sports to serve the Hung Kings Commemoration Anniversary.
Mr. Le Truong Giang, Director of the Hung Temple Historic Site, said that the relic site has been identified as the largest and oldest Hung King worshiping practice center in the historical development of the people. Vietnamese ethnicity.
After more than 10 years of UNESCO recognizing "Hung King worship in Phu Tho" as Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Phu Tho province has increased investment in conservation and restoration of many religious relics. worship Hung Vuong in the area.
Hung Temple Historic Site is spaciously invested with functional areas such as Hung Temple National Forest, Festival Center Area, Hung Vuong Tower Area, Hung Vuong Cultural Tourism Village, Hung Vuong Cultural House, etc. North and South souvenir tree planting area...
The organization of the Hung Kings Commemoration Ceremony and cultural and tourism activities aim to honor the cultural heritage values of the nation, affirming the great value of the two World Cultural Heritages as the "worshiping beliefs" Worshiping Hung Kings" and "Singing Xoan Phu Tho."
Linking heritage with tourism development
Mr. Nguyen Dac Thuy, Director of Phu Tho Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that this year's festival activities will be closely linked with tourism activities, creating attractiveness and attracting tourists. , widely promoting the potential and strengths of Phu Tho cultural tourism resources.
Especially, on this year's Hung Kings Anniversary, visitors from all over the world will enjoy the program "Old Village Xoan Singing" held at the Hung Temple Historic Site.
At the temples and communal houses of ancient Xoan villages in Kim Duc and Hung Lo communes, Viet Tri city, localities will organize Xoan singing performances during the days of Hung King's death anniversary. This is a unique art form, discovered since the time when Hung Vuong founded the country, only in the land of Ancestral Phu Tho and has become the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
To help visitors discover, experience and feel deeply, on the occasion of the death anniversary of the ancestors, Phu Tho province has put into operation many attractive tours and routes to Hung Temple.
The tours and routes are all associated with rich cultural traditions, history, famous landmarks and two Representative Intangible Cultural Heritages of Humanity in Phu Tho area.
Many tourist routes have attracted tourists such as Quoc To Temple Lac Long Quan-Historical Area of Hung Temple-Mieu Lai Len-Hung Lo Ancient Village; Historic Site of Hung Temple - Hung Lo Ancient Village - Xuan Son National Park - Thanh Thuy Hot Mineral Water Resort; Hung Temple Historic Site - Tam Giang Temple Relic Cluster - Dai Bi Pagoda - Mau Co Temple Au Co Ha Hoa...
To attract tourists on the occasion of the Hung Temple Festival, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has connected with the Tourism Associations of the provinces and cities; effectively implemented the tourism development cooperation program in 8 Northwestern provinces to expand with Hanoi city, creating many attractive tourist links to attract tourists such as "Journey to the source," “Linked Tourism - Northwest Arc,” “Hanoi-Phu Tho Daily Tour;” International river tourism program with the form of "Cultural heritage tourism-experience craft villages"...; linking with Ho Chi Minh City and the Southeast provinces to welcome tourists from Noi Bai airport to visit tourism, stay in Phu Tho and visit the Northwest provinces.
Along with that, the Department continues to accompany and support businesses in the area to invest in developing new tourism products, upgrade facilities, service quality, train human resources to organize activities. safe and efficient travel; strengthen promotion, publicity and implementation of stimulus policies to attract international and domestic tourists.
Nguyen Dac Thuy, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that in the coming time, the province will continue to focus on preserving and promoting tangible and intangible cultural heritages, especially two cultural heritages. Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity “Phu Tho Xoan Singing” and “Hung King Worshiping Beliefs in Phu Tho;” associate the conservation and promotion of cultural heritage values with tours and routes to experience the spiritual culture of the Ancestral Land, actively contributing to promoting sustainable socio-economic development./.
From 20/04/2023 - 29/04/2023