The unique thing about the festival heritage in Ba Che is that it all takes place in ethnic minority areas and is enthusiastically responded to by the ethnic communities.
Opening of the 3rd San Chay Ethnic Cultural Festival of Ba Che District in 2024.
In Ba Che district, there are currently many unique festivals, such as: Golden Tea Festival, Dong Chuc Communal House Festival (Luong Minh Commune), Ban Vuong Festival (Nam Son Commune), San Chay Ethnic Cultural Festival (Thanh Son Commune), Highland Cultural Fair (Luong Minh Commune), Tay Ethnic Cultural Festival, Lang Da Communal House Festival (Thanh Lam Commune), Ong Temple - Ba Temple Festival (Nam Son Commune)... These festivals have contributed to promoting the image of Ba Che land and people associated with typical cultural features and local characteristics to a large number of people and tourists inside and outside the province.
Notably, starting from 2020, the Ban Vuong festival, an important traditional festival in the spiritual life of the Dao people, was held for the first time. The festival recreates the "crossing the sea" journey of the Dao people to settle in a new land and the ceremony to commemorate the ancestor Ban Vuong, praying for favorable weather, good crops, prosperity and happiness for descendants. In addition to spiritual worship activities, the festival aims to preserve cultural heritage and promote tourism potential through cultural characteristics and beauty in costumes, rituals, beliefs, and cultural activities of the Dao people in particular, and ethnic groups in Ba Che district in general. At the same time, it is an opportunity for artisans and the Dao community to meet, exchange experiences, raise awareness and consciousness in preserving and promoting traditional cultural values of the Dao people in the period of national integration and development.
At all festivals, there is a solemn ceremony with common rituals, such as: Offering ceremony, erecting the pole, carrying the palanquin, worshiping the pole, digging holes to sow seeds, plowing the fields in early spring, planting competitions... The festival is lively and joyful with art programs, competitions in traditional sports such as tug of war, stick pushing, crossbow shooting, stilt walking, wooden clogs, volleyball, Chung cake wrapping, Cooc Mo cake, Day cake pounding, introducing and selling OCOP products and local agricultural products. In the Ong Temple - Ba Temple festival, there is also a water procession, palanquin procession, incense offering, fish release, OCOP product exchange, men's and women's boat rowing competitions, Chung cake wrapping, tug of war, stick pushing, blindfolded drumming, bamboo pole dancing.
Fire dancing ritual in Ban Vuong festival (Nam Son commune, Ba Che district).
Ba Che district also organizes many ethnic cultural festivals and highland markets. The activities of the highland cultural markets were registered in early 2024, attracting over 8,400 visitors to exchange and trade at the markets. For example, the highland cultural market in Luong Minh commune has been maintained with its own characteristics of a highland market, operating on the 4th, 14th, and 24th of the lunar calendar every month. Visitors can buy agricultural products, medicinal herbs, OCOP products, experience dishes with unique characteristics of the highlands, visit the reservoirs of 4 highland communes, and visit Dong Chuc communal house port.
Or Dap Thanh market is maintained on the 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st, 26th of the lunar calendar every month. Coming to the market, visitors can buy agricultural products, medicinal herbs, local OCOP products, experience dishes with unique characteristics of the highlands, experience rafting activities on Ba Che river, admire the beautiful landscape of Dap Thanh mountains and forests. Along with that, there are many propaganda art programs - film screenings, circus performances, exhibitions of propaganda paintings serving politics in Dap Thanh commune, Don Dac commune, attracting more than 800 people to watch and cheer.
Festival tourism is gradually becoming an attractive tourism product in Ba Che district. In 2024, the district attracted over 35,000 visitors, mainly festival visitors. The number of overnight visitors accounted for over 7,200. Visitors mainly came to the festival, sightseeing and mainly came from the following provinces and cities: Hai Phong, Hai Duong, Hanoi, Hung Yen, Bac Giang, Lang Son, Yen Bai, Thai Binh, Thanh Hoa... These numbers are a positive sign for the preservation and promotion of festival heritage values, contributing to the sustainable development of the local economy./ .
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