On the morning of February 21 (January 12, Giap Thin year), at Tam Chuc Tourist Area (Ba Sao town, Kim Bang district), Tam Chuc Pagoda solemnly organized Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024 with the theme "Connecting heritage". Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan attended with delegates and many tourists from all over the world.
Attending the festival were comrades: Vo Thi Anh Xuan, member of the Party Central Committee, Vice President; Nguyen Thi Doan, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Vice President, President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education; Le Thi Thuy, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Council; Dinh Thi Lua, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Truong Quoc Huy, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Trinh Thi Thuy, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Most Venerable Thich Thanh Nhieu, Permanent Vice President of the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Abbot of Tam Chuc Pagoda; representatives of leaders of central departments, ministries, branches, and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha; members of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; leaders of provincial departments, branches, and organizations; agencies and enterprises in the province; Venerable Monks, Venerable Monks, Venerable Monks, Buddhist monks, nuns, Buddhists, people and tourists from all directions.
The Spring Festival opened with the performance “Spring Festival Drums - When Spring Comes - Spring Festival”. After the festival drum performance, Venerable Thich Minh Quang performed a Buddhist chanting ceremony to pray for blessings, for everyone and every family to be warm, prosperous and happy.
Speaking at the Spring Festival, Most Venerable Thich Thanh Nhieu, Permanent Vice President of the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha - Abbot of Tam Chuc Pagoda emphasized the significance of the Tam Chuc Spring Festival. The Venerable expressed: Tam Chuc tourist area is located in Ba Sao town and Kha Phong commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province. This is a large tourism - cultural - spiritual complex connecting four provinces and cities: Ha Nam, Hanoi, Ninh Binh and Hoa Binh. Based on some relics found at the bottom of Tam Chuc lake and folk stories still circulating locally, it shows that more than a thousand years ago this was a Buddhist land, with the ancient and majestic Tam Chuc Pagoda and local people every year in early spring held a festival to pray for national peace and prosperity, favorable weather, and bountiful crops. This is also a gathering place for monks, nuns, and Buddhist followers from all over the world.
Over time, Tam Chuc Pagoda has been damaged and no longer exists, so since then the local people have not been able to maintain the annual festival activities at the beginning of Spring as before. With the attention of the Party, the Government and the Central ministries and branches, Ha Nam province has implemented the Tam Chuc Tourist Area project, focusing on restoring the heritage values of Tam Chuc land, typically building Tam Chuc Pagoda and the Spiritual Culture and Tourism Area. Every year, on the occasion of Tet, Tam Chuc Spring Festival is held to preserve and promote the cultural values of the locality, develop Vietnamese culture and people, meet the requirements of sustainable development of the country, and at the same time, help introduce and promote to domestic and foreign tourists the unique traditional cultural features of the Vietnamese people in general and Ha Nam land in particular.
In 2023, Ha Nam was honored by the World Tourism Awards as the “World’s Leading Local Cultural Destination”. Speaking at the Spring Festival, Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Truong Quoc Huy, on behalf of the provincial leaders, welcomed leaders and former leaders of the Party and State; leaders of central departments, ministries and branches; Vietnam Buddhist Sangha; distinguished guests and all people and tourists attending the Spring Festival.
He said: After more than 130 years of establishment and nearly 30 years of re-establishment of the province, with strong will and aspiration, Ha Nam province has achieved many great achievements. In 2023, the total product in the province is estimated to reach over 50,000 billion VND. The economic growth rate is estimated at 9.41%, ranking 5th in the Red River Delta and 8th nationwide. GRDP per capita reached 96.3 million VND, an increase of 11.2% compared to 2022. The economic structure has shifted in the right direction. In particular, the service and tourism industries have recovered strongly after the province implemented many promotional and stimulus activities, thereby creating high attractiveness and competitiveness.
With the motto of exploiting potentials and developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector, in recent years, the tourism development policy has been specified in the documents of the Provincial Party Congress, thematic resolutions, plans, projects of Party committees and authorities at all levels. Along with that, Ha Nam province focuses on promoting propaganda, promotion, and investment promotion in tourism through organizing and hosting many national and international events, creating strong resonance such as: Vesak Buddha's Birthday Festival 2019, Ha Nam Tourism Development Investment Promotion Conference 2023, Ha Nam Culture - Tourism Week 2023 and Vietnam - Japan Traditional Art Performance Exchange Program, Tam Chuc Spring Festival Opening Ceremony every year...
From the positive implementation results, the responsibility of all levels and sectors, and the efforts of enterprises, Ha Nam tourism industry has made strong development steps: the number of tourists coming to the province in recent years has continuously increased, with an average growth rate of 20 - 25%. The total number of tourists in 2023 is estimated at 4.4 million, with total tourism revenue estimated at more than 3 trillion VND. With its own rich and attractive cultural and historical values, in 2023, for the first time, Ha Nam was honored by the World Tourism Awards as "The World's Leading Local Cultural Destination", the image of Ha Nam has been enhanced, affirming its important and solid position on the domestic and regional tourism map.
In the coming time, Ha Nam province will continue to focus on implementing solutions to develop tourism quickly and sustainably, contributing to building Ha Nam province to become increasingly rich, beautiful, civilized, striving to achieve a fairly good level of development in the Red River Delta; towards becoming a centrally-run city, a smart, modern urban area, thereby contributing to the innovation and development of the country as the goal of the Ha Nam Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050.
In the general picture of Ha Nam culture and tourism, Tam Chuc scenic spot is a typical, unique heritage with outstanding value and diverse tourism resources, especially attractive with advantages in natural landscape as well as cultural value. With high-quality and synchronous infrastructure, technical facilities and services, Tam Chuc tourist area is an attractive destination for domestic and foreign tourists, creating a breakthrough for Ha Nam tourism industry, contributing significantly to the completion of the province's tourism development goals.
The opening ceremony of Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024 with many rich and diverse activities aims to continue and promote the fine cultural traditions of our ancestors, widely propagate and promote the image of the land and people of Ha Nam to a wide range of people, domestic and international tourists, contributing to preserving and promoting the values of Ha Nam's cultural heritage associated with sustainable tourism development.
At the Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024, Comrade Vo Thi Anh Xuan, Member of the Party Central Committee, Vice President presented flowers; Comrade Trinh Thi Thuy, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism presented the Cup "World's Leading Local Cultural Destination" to Ha Nam province.
Next, Comrade Truong Quoc Huy, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Most Venerable Thich Thanh Nhieu, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha, Abbot of Tam Chuc Pagoda, beat the drum and rang the bell to open the Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024. At the same time, Most Venerable Thich Minh Quang and Buddhists performed the ritual of praying for national peace and prosperity, for the country to be prosperous and peaceful, and for the people to be warm and happy.
The water procession ceremony - the most important spiritual ritual in the Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024 aims to express respect and gratitude to the Buddhas, Gods, Saints, Mothers and the wish for favorable weather and bountiful crops. The Organizing Committee arranged 7 large boats and 200 small boats carrying nearly 500 people to participate in the water procession. The boat group moved from the Vesak International Conference Center boat dock (Thuy Dinh) to the middle of Tam Chuc Lake to perform the sacred water collection ritual, then moved to the Tam Quan Noi dock to transfer water to 3 procession cars and carry out the water procession ceremony to Tam The Temple and Ngoc Pagoda.
Before the main festival day, on the evening of February 20, a fashion show, art performance and fireworks display took place at the Vesak International Convention Center. With the theme “Fashion Show Wishing on a Sacred Place”, the program introduced many collections of designers. Interspersed with art performances were famous singers such as: Tan Nhan, Phuong My Chi, Hoa Minzy, Double2T…
Some pictures at Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024:
News: Chu Binh, photos: Le Dung
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