Hung Temple Festival 2024: All is ready for the main festival day
The worship team of Chu Hoa commune (Viet Tri city) performed the offering ceremony to the Father Lac Long Quan according to traditional rituals. (Photo: Ta Toan/TTXVN)
Until next time, every Hung King's Anniversary - Hung Temple Festival will attract millions of people in the country and overseas Vietnamese to return to their homeland. At this time, all preparations for the political association are being urgently completed.
In particular, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong, said that this year's festival will be the longest ever with many socialized activities. unprecedented large-scale movement.
Build a standard Ancestral Commemoration ceremony for the whole country
– Could you please tell us about the new features and basic activities of this year's Hung Temple festival season?
Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong: Hung King's Commemoration - Hung Temple Festival and Dat To Culture and Tourism Week 2024 have been taking place since April 10, and will last 4 days longer than previous years.
This year's festival season, we aim to build an exemplary Ancestor's Anniversary celebration for the whole country. Accordingly, the ceremony part is solemn, respectful, ensuring safety and the festival part also organizes many cultural, sports, tourism activities and events to serve the large number of people and tourists attending the festival. Hung Temple and Dat To Culture and Tourism Week in 2024.
In particular, within the 10 days of the festival, we will increase the socialization of performance events, folk arts and a series of night art programs in Viet Tri city to serve a large number of tourists. guest.
Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong. (Photo: Mai Mai/Vietnam+)
In particular, a series of festival activities in communes and areas surrounding Hung Temple such as Hung Lo ancient communal house and Bach Hac-Ben Got tourist area will be expanded to an unprecedented large scale and attract a large number of villagers as well. like tourists from everywhere. Besides the historical landmarks of the Hung Temple Historical Relic Area, visitors will experience and immerse themselves in unique cultural activities such as the Hung Lo village festival and Tam Giang temple festival. -Bach Hac is associated with the accumulation of water at the confluence of rivers...
– At this time, how is the locality prepared for the Hung Temple Opening Ceremony, ma'am?
Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong: Regarding the preparations for the Hung King's Commemoration Anniversary - Hung Temple Festival, the Provincial People's Committee has paid attention to directing the branches to ensure safe, friendly, hospitable organizational conditions, forming a memorable tourist destination. good impression for tourists.
The main day of Hung King's Commemoration Festival on March 10 is coming, currently the work is from ensuring security and order, traffic flow, to controlling food safety and hygiene as well as beautifying the urban campus and regulations. Service shop planning in the historical Hung Temple area and Viet Tri city has been tightened.
With accommodation establishments, we have also guided and thoroughly understood them to improve and improve the quality of services and products to ensure the best conditions to be able to welcome a large number of millions of visitors. flock to Hung Temple during the festivals of March 9 and 10.
Hung Lo Ancient Village Festival is part of a series of events of the Hung Temple Festival. (Photo: Mai Mai/Vietnam+)
Develop 4 key tourist destinations
– In the tourism industry development strategy, what types of products will the locality focus on?
Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong: We identify Phu Tho tourism as an important economic sector, focusing on four key tourism centers: Viet Tri city, Tan Son district, Thanh Thuy district, Ha Hoa and Tam Nong.
Among them, firstly, we focus on exploiting cultural tourism products, which are a potential and unique product line of Phu Tho tourism. On the other hand, we also develop community ecotourism, aiming to preserve the cultural heritage values of ethnic minorities associated with tourism development.
Second, we aim to develop and exploit sports tourism and golf tourism products to attract high-paying resort guests. In particular, ecotourism will aim to exploit the ecological value of Xuan Son National Park as well as Long Coc tea hill.
In the coming time, we also hope to form many unique tourism products and attract many potential investment businesses with strong resources to Phu Tho, to form many areas, Effective and quality tourist attractions, adding many unique and highly competitive products to attract tourists to Phu Tho.
Xoan singing performance at Hung Lo ancient communal house. (Photo: Linh Tam/Vietnam+)
– How effective has the development of the Hung Temple night tour in the festival season product line that the locality is deploying been for city tourism, ma'am?
Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong: In fact, we have built a pilot night tour model for Hung Temple before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, then the pandemic broke out, causing this night tour activity to be interrupted. On the occasion of Hung King's Anniversary - Hung Temple Festival this year, the locality also restarted the night tour to serve visitors.
Hopefully in the coming time, with communication, improvement and renewal of products at the Hung Temple historical relic site, the night tour will contribute to creating a highlight, attracting tourists to participate in the local tourism experience. direction.
– So how has the preservation and exploitation of the value of tangible and intangible cultural heritage associated with tourism development in the province been promoted, ma'am?
Ms. Vu Thi Hoai Phuong: Recently, Phu Tho has determined the goal of developing cultural tourism as one of the typical types, characteristic of Dat To tourism associated with the Hung King era of building and defending the country. Therefore, the tourism industry is very interested in scientific research topics to build models and promote cultural heritage values associated with tourism.
For example, forming a model to serve visitors in Hung Lo ancient village associated with Phu Tho Xoan singing has attracted a large number of domestic and international tourists. In particular, we also welcome river tourists every month with a steady flow of visitors until 2026.
Organize a "flag party" in Hung Lo village during the Hung Temple Festival. (Photo: Mai Mai/Vietnam+)
International tourists are very impressed with the type of ancient village Xoan singing at Dinh Hung Lo associated with the traditional village of making banh chung and experiencing ancient houses, as well as a series of experiential activities imbued with the cultural identity and people of the village. Hung Lo ancient.
And the second model that we developed on the outskirts of the Hung Temple historical relic site associated with the festival city, returning to the roots of the Vietnamese nation, is the Bach Hac-Ben Got cultural historical relic site, This place is associated with the legend of water procession at the confluence of rivers.
In recent years, we have successfully built two community cultural tourist sites, Hung Lo Communal House and Bach Hac-Ben Got, to become two recognized provincial-level cultural tourist sites.
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