Ready for Ba Thu Bon Festival

The People's Committee of Trung Phuoc town (Nong Son district) urgently decorated the area around the Lady's palace. TTT

Prepare carefully

In recent days, people in Trung An group (Trung Phuoc town) have been busy decorating with lanterns, flowers, and ornamental plants, creating a clean and beautiful landscape around the Lady's palace area.

People of Trung An Group (Trung Phuoc town, Nong Son) take care of ornamental plants in Ba's palace. Photo: TTT

Mr. Vo Hung Khanh - Head of the Thu Bon Palace Relic Management Board shared that the residential group soon organized a meeting, established a ceremony committee, a reception committee, assigned members to serve logistics, built a specific scenario for the festival, and ensured a thoughtful and safe reception for residents and visitors.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thach (Trung An group) said that women in the village met to prepare fruits, cakes, and offerings to offer to the Lady, and assigned cooking tasks to serve tourists.

Trung Phuoc town decorated 70 fishtail flags, billboards, cross-street banners, lanterns, and flower streets along the main roads in the district center and the road to the Lady's Palace, and set up 3 miniature landscapes around the Lady's Palace grounds, creating interesting "check-in" and sightseeing spots for tourists.

Nong Son district invests in construction and landscaping of the road leading to the Lady's Palace. Photo: TTT

Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy - Vice Chairman of Nong Son District People's Committee said that in preparation for the festival, the locality invested nearly 4 billion VND to build an embankment to prevent landslides at Dinh Ba, level the ground, pave stones, widen the sidewalk from National Highway 14H to Dinh Ba, plant trees around the campus, etc.

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In Duy Xuyen district, the road from Nam Phuoc intersection to Ba Thu Bon mausoleum (Duy Tan commune) has many billboards promoting Ba Thu Bon festival. Around Ba mausoleum, there are cheerful flags and flowers, the landscape is airy and clean. The locality has stepped up propaganda and promotion to people and tourists on Facebook, Zalo, Radio - Television...

Many banners about the Ba Thu Bon Festival are decorated by localities on National Highway 14H. Photo: TTT

Mr. Nguyen Cong Truong - Vice Chairman of Duy Tan Commune People's Committee said that in recent days, along with hanging banners, billboards, and fishtail flags to promote the festival, the locality also mobilized people to hang the national flag on the occasion of the festival. The commune established an organizing committee with 19 members and 13 sub-committees.

Diversified activities

Also according to Vice Chairman of Duy Tan Commune People's Committee - Nguyen Cong Truong, this year, the festival area faces many difficulties due to the implementation of the Song Thu bridge project, but the locality and people are still determined to organize the festival as thoughtfully and magnificently as possible.

The rituals were performed by the two localities in accordance with tradition. Photo: TTT

Besides the ceremony organized according to traditional rituals, the festival also has many activities such as singing Bai Choi, Tuong singing, boat racing, volleyball, traditional martial arts performances and other folk games.

The traditional boat race is held as every year. Photo: TTT

“The locality organized a home economics competition with 7 village women’s associations and school women’s groups participating in demonstrations of wrapping and cooking several types of cakes. The highlight was making gingerbread right at the Lady’s mausoleum area to promote and introduce to tourists,” said Mr. Truong.

Festival activities are widely promoted. Photo: TTT

Within the framework of this year's Ba Thu Bon festival, the locality organized many cultural and artistic activities such as the Cham culture art program, Echo of the Thu River, singing and singing Bai Choi, boat racing, folk games, athletics, and chess. Notably, the new ritual of the sacred fire procession was also included in the program to make the ceremony more solemn.

With the careful preparation of local authorities and the active response of the people, we believe that this year's Ba Thu Bon Festival will be a success, becoming an attractive cultural event, attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world to attend. Thereby, contributing to the preservation and promotion of the unique values of the festival - a type of national intangible cultural heritage.

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