Festivals are part of cultural heritage, traditional festivals in Quang Ninh are shared copper create, preserve, and pass on from generation to generation. The rich and unique festival system is a valuable human resource for Quang Ninh to develop its heritage economy.
According to statistics, in Quang Ninh province, there are currently 76 traditional folk festivals, mainly concentrated in spring, creating attractive festival tourism products for visitors. Some typical festivals include: Yen Tu Festival, Cua Ong Temple Festival, Tra Co Communal House Festival, Bach Dang Festival, Long Tien Pagoda Festival, Quan Lan Communal House Festival, Dam Ha Communal House Festival, Ba Men Temple Festival, Tien Cong Festival...
These festivals are at the provincial level, even at the regional or national level, some of which have been recognized as national intangible cultural heritages such as: Tien Cong Festival, Cua Ong Temple Festival, Tra Co Communal House Festival, Quan Lan Communal House Festival, Bach Dang Festival... Quang Ninh has a terrain and space that includes all three regions: mountainous region, plain region and island region. Such terrain conditions have created unique cultural features, specifically here are rich and diverse festivals with many different large and small scales.
In terms of time of organization, festivals in Quang Ninh also have similarities with traditional festivals of the Vietnamese people. These festivals mainly take place in spring and are associated with the rhythm of ancient agricultural production in the spring-autumn cycle. Statistics of festivals in some localities of Quang Ninh show that festivals taking place in spring account for 30/46 festivals. Meanwhile, festivals taking place in summer have 12 festivals, followed by 2 festivals in autumn, and 2 festivals in winter.
In addition to the Yen Tu Spring Festival which lasts for 3 months, there are many other special festivals in Quang Ninh, which are shorter in duration, such as the Tien Cong Festival which takes place from January 4-7, with the festival centering at Tien Cong Temple, Cam La Commune, Quang Yen Town. The festival commemorates the Tien Cong who had the merit of gathering people to reclaim land and establish villages on Ha Nam Island. During the festival, there is a procession to commemorate the merit of the Tien Cong who reclaimed this land.
Another special feature is that most of the festivals mentioned above are closely related to the sea space. According to statistics, festivals associated with sea culture are more numerous and dominant than those in the inland areas. This This is also understandable because Quang Ninh is a land that is heavily influenced and affected by the sea, so the cultural activities and lifestyle of the residents still preserve many sea elements, which are vividly expressed in traditional festivals. Festivals in the island areas account for 43%, followed by coastal areas at 37%, and festivals in the inland areas at 20%.
Traditional festivals in Quang Ninh are part of the cultural heritage that the local community has created since ancient times. Awakening the potential of the above festivals combined with other heritage values will become endogenous cultural resources and bring a new look, creating strengths in economic development, specifically festival tourism, cultural industry, and heritage economy. This is an advantage for economic development based on heritage combined with the advantages bestowed by nature. In particular, special attention is paid to placing festival heritage in the cultural space of the Northeast region.
The important thing to develop the heritage economy is that festivals cannot stand alone, but must have a system connection, regional connection with other heritages and connection with entities outside the festival. These are important factors to maintain the identity and expand the space of festival heritage. Therefore, to enrich the experiences, help visitors immerse themselves in traditional festivals, Quang Ninh has been building additional tourism products to complement festival tourism. These are the components that make up the complete heritage economic picture in Quang Ninh, in which the highlight is festival heritage.
In connecting festivals, Quang Ninh prioritizes the approach to the sea and islands, exploiting the potential of sea tourism, maximizing the advantages bestowed by nature, experiencing being a fisherman, participating in processing products from the sea, enjoying seafood cuisine, developing homestays on the islands, building check-in points on the islands...
At the same time, Quang Ninh also actively promotes the value, advertises the image of the festival and elevates it to a complete tourism product to integrate into the development of the heritage economy, in order to realize the roadmap to turn heritage into assets. Promoting the value of festival heritage has received the participation of many sectors and fields, in which the role of the festival's subject, the people, is respected. A good environment, a fertile land has been created for the festival to develop, aiming to better exploit the value of the festival with the heritage economy.
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