December experience the Highland Market - Welcome the New Year 2025 at the Cultural Village

(Fatherland) - From December 1, 2024 to January 1, 2025, at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism , December activities will take place with the theme "Highland Market - Welcome New Year 2025" to introduce early spring culture with rituals, festivals, customs and practices, thereby helping visitors better understand the traditional and unique cultural features of ethnic groups...

The activity involved more than 100 people from 16 ethnic groups (Nung, Tay, Dao, Mong, Muong, Lao, Thai, Kho Mu, Ta Oi, Ba Na, Xo Dang, Gia Rai, Co Tu, Raglai, E De, Khmer) with the participation of 11 localities where people are active every day (Thai Nguyen, Hanoi , Ha Giang, Hoa Binh, Son La, Thua Thien Hue, Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Ninh Thuan, Dak Lak, Soc Trang). Mobilizing about 65 more ethnic groups, including 25 Mong people from Dien Bien province from December 28 and 29, 2024; 20 Mong, Dao people; 20 Thai people from Thanh Hoa province from December 31, 2024 to January 1, 2025.

The Village's December activities had the participation of more than 100 people from 16 ethnic groups.

The series of activities to welcome the New Year 2025 includes many events such as: Re-enacting the Nao Pe Chau festival of the Mong people, Dien Bien province; Folk song and dance program "Mong village happily welcomes Tet"; Folk song and dance program "Joy of welcoming the New Year"...

In "Highland Market - Welcome New Year 2025" will recreate the colorful cultural space of highland ethnic groups happily meeting, looking back on the past year and the joyful preparation to welcome the new year 2025 at "Common House" with the theme "Highland Market - Welcome New Year 2025".

With the highlight "Highland Market - Welcome New Year 2025", the market space scene is a combination of the joyful atmosphere of going to the market, dancing with the panpipes, pounding rice cakes with Mong ethnic boys and girls; folk songs, folk dances, folk games (pushing sticks, tug of war, throwing balls...), ethnic cuisine, local products, traditional crafts with the colors of the Mong, Dao, Thai ethnic groups (Thanh Hoa) and the Northern ethnic groups operating daily in the Village...; Introducing and performing the Panpipe dance of the Mong ethnic group, Thanh Hoa province; Introducing and performing the traditional crafts of the highland ethnic groups; The folk song and dance program "Colors of the market" of the ethnic communities in the Northern highland market space; Reenacting the "New Rice Celebration" Ceremony of the Thai ethnic group, Thanh Hoa province; Reenacting an excerpt of the Good Luck Festival of the Mong, Dao, Thai ethnic groups in Thanh Hoa province.

During the weekend activities in the Village, the activities of the people who work daily along the route are enhanced, linked to the space of trees and flowers at the end of the year and the beginning of the new spring; the exchange program "Wild Sunflowers" of the ethnic groups of the Central Highlands who are operating in the Village; the exchange program "Mustard Flower Season" of the ethnic groups of the North who are operating in the Village...

The highlight of "Highland Market - Welcome New Year 2025" is the scene of the market space, which is a combination of the joyful atmosphere of going to the market, dancing with the panpipes, pounding rice cakes with the Mong ethnic boys and girls.

In addition, the Village on this occasion also has some indispensable games such as: playing chess, playing hopscotch, playing checkers, playing bamboo puppets, walking on stilts, dancing on bamboo poles, playing swings, seesaws, space to experience painting statues, painting sand paintings, bamboo dragonflies, wooden paintings, wooden fish, painting pictures, experiencing ethnic costumes...

Through some simple games, students can participate in activities to experience, learn, and explore nature and animals, contributing to training thinking skills, creativity, and dexterity, while also strengthening friendship and family love. With this space, students will have more stops, more experiences, and more joy in their journey to visit the Ethnic Villages./.

Source: https://toquoc.vn/thang-12-trai-nghiem-cho-phien-vung-cao-chao-nam-moi-2025-tai-lang-van-hoa-du-lich-cac-dan-toc-viet-nam-20241201205231553.htm