(HBO) – The national great solidarity festival was held in Boi Ca residential area in Nam Thuong commune in Kim Boi district on November 5. This is the first commune in Kim Boi district had hosted the event this year. The festival was attended by leaders of the provincial Fatherland Front Committee, provincial Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the district, and Presidents of the Fatherland Front Committees of 16 communes and towns in Kim Boi.
Local people in Boi Ca residential area in Nam
Thuong commune stage art performance to welcome the national great solidarity
festival.
Boi Ca has 362 families with 1,607 people, 92
percent of whom are Muong ethnic minorities. They have joined hands to
effectively carry out the campaign "The whole people unite to build new-style
rural areas and civilised urban area”. Along with shifting cultivation and
developing services, local people have paid due attention to outlining rational
planning as well as contribute to the construction of 0.9 kilometre of
rural roads and inter-field roads.
This year, local income per capita is estimated
at 40.5 million VND (1,749 USD), while poverty rate is expected to fall to 1.1
percent (four households). Some 81 percent of the households have solid houses.
In addition, all children in the residential area are enabled to go to school,
and there is no students dropping out of school.
Asmany as 292 households achieved the
"cultural family” title, accounting for 80.6 percent of the local families, and
the "sport family” title was bestowed on 58 percent of them.
Significant improvements have been seen in the spiritual
and material lives of local people.
The residential area also set up two
conciliation groups and one security group to promote solidarity and ensure
social order in the locality.
In 2021, the residential area expects over 85
percent of the households achieving the "cultural family” title, and will work
to carry out 27 criteria to build a cultural residential area.
At the festival, organisations, families and individuals
were lauded for their significant contributions to building the residential
area. A commitment to implement an emulation campaign in 2021 was signed as
well.
The district’s Vietnam Fatherland Front and provincial
Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Agribank) presented houses to two
impoverished families in the residential area./.
From March 10th – 11th, the People's Committee of Cao Phong town (Cao Phong) coordinated with the Relics Management Board to organize the traditional festival of Thuong Bong Lai Temple in 2024.
As spring comes, people in Phu Nghia commune in particular and Lac Thuy district in general flock to Tien Pagoda festival to enjoy festive activities during the annual event.
Khai Ha festival is a long-standing traditional folk festival with the largest scale of Muong people in Hoa Binh province. In 2022, Khai Ha fesstival the Muong minority in Hoa Binh province was recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2023 and 2024, the festival was held on the provincial scale, getting together 4 major Muong regions (Bi, Vang, Thang, Dong) to participate, and it has been an opportunity for the quintessence of Muong ethnic culture to converge and shine.
With a great passion for national art, outstanding artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan in Voi area, Ba Hang Doi town in Lac Thuy district, has developed and promoted a Muong ethnic cultural space with over 2,000 artifacts which are familiar in the daily life in the Muong ethnic people.
Along with the process of integration and development, traditional cultural identities of the Muong ethnic community in general, and Muong ethnic people in Tan Lac district in particular, are at risk of falling into oblivion. Therefore, many clubs have been established in the locality to preserve and promote the beauty of the ethnic group’s cultural identities.
Held every three years, the swing festival in Muong Voi, Vu Ban town in Lac Son district is "one-of-a-kind". From the 5th to the 7th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Dragon, thousands of residents and tourists flocked to the locality to experience the unique cultural festival.