General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and the People offer incense and commemorate to the Hung Kings
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Earlier on April 14, 100 teenagers showed off in Viet Tri city, Phu Tho province, at a singing competition of Xoan, a local folk music performed in the first months of a lunar year.
The Phu Tho provincial Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism published a DVD featuring 10 ancient Xoan songs performed by young artists. Their performance was recorded at traditional spaces which host rituals using Xoan songs. Chief organizer Ha Ke San said, “This DVD differs from previous publications in which Xoan is sung by young people who are responsible for preserving Xoan singing for future generations. The media provides the easiest way for foreigners to learn about Vietnam. This is part of an effort to get UNESCO to reclassify Xoan singing, now a world intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent protection, as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.”
Festival goers will see artifacts highlighting different cultures of different regions, such as Khanh Son rock gongs of Khanh Hoa province and a couple of 400-year-old wooden vases that weigh a ton.
The event will include a photo exhibit featuring relic sites, ceramic products made by the artisans of Bat Trang village, Hanoi, and bronze products made by the smelters of Phu Tho province. Art performances will embellish the festival.
