Highlights of the expanded Hai Phong Chau Van performance festival

The 2025 Hai Phong Chau Van Performance Festival will take place on April 11 and 12 at the Hang Kenh Communal House historical site with the participation of 14 outstanding artists, folk artists, mediums, cung van groups, hau dang groups, and Senh tien dance teams from the provinces and cities of Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Thai Binh and Bac Giang .

Here, visitors and locals can immerse themselves in the spiritual space, traditional art and performance, to fully experience the range of emotions that are both solemn and sacred, joyful and exciting, and to appreciate even more the precious heritages left by our ancestors.

The performers are professional and enthusiastic.

The practice of Mother Goddess worship has a number of rituals such as worshiping ceremonies; spirit possession; singing and festivals, but the most typical and unique is the performance of Chau Van.

This is a form of music ceremony associated with the spirit medium ritual of the worship of the Mother Goddess of the Three Palaces. The most important of these is the worship of the Three Holy Mothers; the Heavenly Saints; human gods, and lucky gods; followed by generals who have contributed to the people and the country and are remembered by the people.

Performances at the festival.

Through the festival, we aim to arouse awareness of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, helping viewers better understand the Mother Goddess worship - a belief of indigenous origin, created by Vietnamese people on the basis of inheriting the Mother Goddess worship from the beginning with goddesses (often called Holy Mothers) associated with natural phenomena, the universe that our ancestors believed had the function of creating, surviving, protecting and sheltering human life such as: sky; earth; river; water; mountains and forests...

Ms. Tran Thi Hoang Mai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hai Phong city presented flowers to artisans participating in the Festival.

Since 2006, Hai Phong has organized many Chau Van Performance Festivals at locations such as the City Cultural Center; Thuong Doan Palace; Gam Temple (Tien Lang), Hai Phong Opera House, Viet Tiep Friendship Labor Cultural Palace, and the Trumpet House (Nguyen Du flower garden).

Hai Phong city is one of the cradles of Vietnamese Mother Goddess culture. In the city, there are hundreds of temples, shrines and palaces.

Artists from provinces and cities bring special performances.

This is also an activity to respond to and celebrate the 70th anniversary of Hai Phong Liberation Day (May 13, 1955 - May 13, 2025) and the Red Flamboyant Festival - Hai Phong 2025; to celebrate major holidays in April and May, the history of the city and the country.

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