HBO – The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hoa Binh province has just organised the 2017 Popular Art Festival. The opening ceremony was attended by Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Chuong.
The biennial event aimed to preserve
the traditional cultural values and identities, contributing to promoting the
lands, people and cultural traditions of local ethnic groups.
This also formed part of activities
to mark the 72nd anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19),
the National Day (September 2), and the 72nd traditional day of the
Culture and Information sector; and the 70th anniversary of the
province’s armed forces.
According to organisers, the two-day
event included numerous attractive performances which were carefully prepared,
attracting crowds of spectators.
The Muong ethnic minority’s Gong dance "Nhom dat nhom Muong” of the Tan
Lac team wins A prize at the festival.
The organizing board presented
20 A prizes, 24 B prizes, and
12 C prizes for outstanding
performances.
Six A prizes were awarded to six
teams from Hoa Binh city, Lac Thuy, Tan Lac, Yen Thuy, Mai Chau, and Cao Phong
districts. Five other teams received B prizes, namely Lac Son, Kim Boi, Luong
Son, Ky Son and Da Bac districts.
In the evening of March 28th, in Hoa Binh, the Department of Grassroots Culture (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) coordinated with the provincial Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the city to organize a mobile propaganda contest to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7th, 1954 - May 7th, 2024) with the theme "Returning to Dien Bien”. There ứa the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; the representatives of the leaders from a number of departments, branches and numerous veterans and Hoa Binh people.
In responding to the movement of "All people stay united to build cultural lifestyle”, over the years, Kim Boi district has conducted many practical and effective activities to promote solidarity and mutual support among the local community in sustainable poverty reduction and building cultural lifestyle and a healthy cultural environment, and maintaining national cultural identity.
Hoa Binh Pedagogical College has just held the closing ceremony of the training class and issued the certificate of the language of Muong ethnic people to the oficials, civil servants and public employees of courses I and II in 2023.
Hoa Binh is an ancient land home to limestone mountains running along the southeast direction and in parallel with Truong Son Mountain Range in the West, forming many basins and valleys with a rich diversity of fauna and flora. Humans came to reside here in the pre-historic period, creating the world-famous Hoa Binh Civilisation.
The Dao ethnic minority group in Hoa Binh province has preserved many unique cultural identities, especially rituals and belief. In particular, Nhay (dance) festival is the most important ritual with a long history, vividly reflecting the religious life of the local Dao people.