Many artists participate in "Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival 2024" as ambassadors - Photo: TTD
2024 marks the 10-year journey of the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival . The number of people participating in the festival's activities is increasing, proving the spread and love of the people for Ao Dai.
The 2024 Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival, themed I love Vietnamese Ao Dai , will take place from March 7 to 17. This year's festival will feature more than 50 Ao Dai designers and festival ambassadors.
Preserve and maintain the beauty of Ao Dai
Mr. Nguyen Van Dung - Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee - said that the success of the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival over the past 10 years is the result of the perseverance, persistence, constant learning, innovation and creativity of departments, units and individuals.
He suggested that the Department of Tourism, Department of Culture and Sports, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ho Chi Minh City Women's Union and the organizing committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival continue to promote and have more creative and attractive ideas in the long journey ahead.
Looking back over 10 years, Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa - Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism - felt moved to receive love from all levels and sectors, including designers, image ambassadors, especially foreign diplomatic agencies in Vietnam...
" The Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival contributes to the preservation and maintenance of cultural features. This is the motivation and also the theme we wish to carry out in the following seasons. Above all, the Ao Dai has entered life in the most natural way, becoming increasingly close and familiar," Ms. Anh Hoa told Tuoi Tre .
Next year, the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival will honor the community's contributions to the city's development. There will be Ao Dai performances for female workers, janitors, vendors, and small traders in the markets... Because all silent contributions deserve to be honored.
"From the 11th year, we will coordinate to make the ao dai more popular abroad. It is not only in Ho Chi Minh City during festivals or Tet that you see the ao dai, but the ao dai is present everywhere. Seeing the ao dai means knowing Vietnam.
It is a journey that requires perseverance and creativity. However, we believe that we can do it with unity and joint efforts" - Ms. Anh Hoa shared.
More than 5,000 people perform in Ao Dai on Nguyen Hue walking street (HCMC) - Photo: TTD
Early desire is legacy
Activities and programs related to Ao Dai are considered vivid and practical evidence to establish a dossier to propose Ao Dai as a national intangible cultural heritage, aiming for it to be a world heritage.
The Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival was born, maintained, and lasted for 10 years, and will certainly exist and become a traditional activity of Ho Chi Minh City, the pride of the city named after Uncle Ho.
Ms. Le Tu Cam - President of Ho Chi Minh City Cultural Heritage Association - Photo: HO LAM
Ms. Le Tu Cam - President of the Ho Chi Minh City Cultural Heritage Association - assessed that the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival , entering its 10th year, has more diverse activities, especially in depth.
The depth here is that the designers introduce many traditional ao dai collections.
"Ao dai is not a type of clothing that is difficult to wear, cumbersome or makes the wearer inactive.
But there will need to be specific criteria to describe the ao dai such as: what kind of skirt is considered an ao dai, the ao dai must be worn with two-legged pants, the ao dai must have sleeves, and the neckline can be as desired (high, low, or even wide for comfort, suitable for Vietnam's climate).
I hope the State will soon recognize the ao dai as a national intangible cultural heritage, moving towards recognition by humanity" - Ms. Le Tu Cam told Tuoi Tre .
According to Ms. Anh Hoa, to become an intangible cultural heritage, the ao dai must become an indispensable part of people's lives.
"The organizers of the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival want to spread that spirit and beauty," Ms. Hoa emphasized.
MC Quynh Hoa performs Ao Dai at "Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival 2024" - Photo: NVCC
MC Quynh Hoa has been accompanying the Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival as an ambassador for six years. Quynh Hoa said this is a great honor for her.
MC Quynh Hoa said she has been to 45 countries and always brings ao dai.
"In 1994, Hoa first wore the ao dai abroad when she was a senior student at the Foreign Trade University in Ho Chi Minh City, attending the World Youth Festival. Many people saw Hoa wearing the ao dai, knew she was from Vietnam, friends and tourists all wanted to take pictures. Hoa felt very proud" - Quynh Hoa said.
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