The special gifted "Gong performance" of Lac Son High School.

This is an extra-curricular activities organized by Hoa Binh Department of Education and Training to create a useful and attractive playground, helping students expand their knowledge and improve their life skills. The effective implementation of the education of the national patriotism, the national pride and self-respect has helped them to have the awareness of preservation and promotion of the provincial ethnic cultural identity, contributing to performing the comprehensive educational goals in schools.

At the same time, it has also helped improving the responsibilities of the officials and teachers in the education of the national culture, love, the pride and self-respect with the provincial cultural identity for students. It has promoted the role of the Board of the school authorities, the mass organizations, the head teachers, the subject teachers, the teachers as the Secretary of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in organizing the extra-curricular activities and training the life skills.

In the contest, the teams went through four sections: greeting, performing the national costumes, learning the knowledge and aptitude.

At the end of the contest, the Organizing Committee assessed that the schools had serious, careful and effective care and investment for the contest. The quality sections of the contest showed the love, the exploration and the understanding of Muong ethnic culture of high school students in Lac Son district. In particular, the contest has many special gifted performances imbued with the cultural identity of Muong ethnic people, which are shown very smoothly and impressively such as Muong ethnic lullaby, gong performances and folk traditional instrumental concerts.

The Organizing Committee awarded the first prize to Lac Son High School and Quyet Thang High School, the second prize to Lac Son Ethnic Minority Boarding High and Secondary School, Ngoc Son Ethnic Minority Boarding High and Secondary School. The third prize was awarded to Dai Dong and Cong Hoa High Schools.

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