Opening of Hung King's Commemoration Day 2025

Vice Chairman of Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huy Ngoc, Head of the Organizing Committee of Hung Kings' Commemoration Anniversary and Culture - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land 2025 spoke at the opening ceremony.

At the opening ceremony, Vice Chairman of Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huy Ngoc said that within the framework of the Hung Temple Festival and the Cultural - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land this year, Phu Tho province organized a series of unique cultural, sports and tourism events. In particular, the art program "Echoes of the Origin" is an important highlight, a bridge connecting the past with the present, the origin with the development of the country. The program is imbued with national spirit, arousing love for the homeland and country, bringing each Vietnamese child back to the sacred origin.

Vice Chairman of Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huy Ngoc, Head of the Organizing Committee of Hung Kings' Commemoration Day and Culture - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land 2025, beat the drum to open the festival.

After the opening ceremony, the art program “Echoes of the Origin” recreated the image of “The horse hoofs of Saint Giong passed through hundreds of ponds and marshes, Ninety-nine elephants contributed to build the Hung King's Ancestral Land”. The vibrant and heroic atmosphere expressed through the singing and dancing in the program affirmed Phu Tho as the Ancestral Land, the cradle of Hung King's culture.

The performance opens the series of events of Hung Temple Festival and Culture - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land in the year of At Ty 2025.

Over thousands of years of history, Phu Tho today is considered a cultural museum of the Vietnamese people with extremely deep and bold imprints, a rich and diverse system of tangible and intangible cultural heritages associated with the Hung King era. Along with the system of historical and cultural relics, traditional festivals and unique national intangible cultural heritages, Phu Tho is honored to own two cultural heritages: Hung King Worship and Phu Tho Xoan Singing, which have been recognized by UNESCO as representative intangible cultural heritages of humanity.

The art program is elaborately and uniquely staged.

The Hung Kings' Commemoration Anniversary and the Cultural - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land in the year of At Ty - 2025, organized by the People's Committee of Phu Tho province from March 29 to April 7 (from March 1 to 10 of the lunar calendar) at the Hung Temple Historical Relic Site, Hung Vuong Square, Viet Tri City. Within the framework of the festival, there are many unique activities, carrying the spirit of the Hung era, inherited and continued in contemporary society. In particular, the ceremony takes place solemnly, respectfully, following the national cultural tradition with the incense offering and flower offering rituals of the delegations and people.

The art program is elaborately and uniquely staged.

The festival includes many cultural, sports and tourism activities creating a joyful and healthy atmosphere, imbued with the cultural identity of the origin. Highlights include: Art program to open the Cultural - Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land 2025; Ancestral Land Book Fair; Special exhibition introducing documents and artifacts from the Hung King period; Cultural camp and exhibition, promotion and introduction of local products and products; Phu Tho mass art and folk song festival; Xoan singing performance of ancient villages; Banh Chung wrapping and cooking contest, Banh Giay pounding contest; Hung Vuong Cup Volleyball Tournament for strong teams, Marathon "Back to the source"...

News and photos: Ta Toan (Vietnam News Agency)

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