Kim Boi district has worked to preserve and promote the cultural trait of the local Muong ethnic minority group, taking them as a mission to popularise and effectively carry out the Party’s guidelines and the State’s regulations.
Artisan Bui Tien Xo is
instructing members of the Muong gong club in Thao Ca hamlet, Vinh Tien commune
how to play chieng (gong).
The district has directed competent sectors and
branches to enhance communications work to raise public awareness of policies
on preserving and promoting cultural heritage. Besides, it has paid due
attention to safeguarding traditional folk games, honouring artisans, families
and community with standout contributions to the preservation work, and promote
the restoration of traditional festivals such as Muong Dong festival, Lap
communal house festival, and Sim pagoda festival.
The culture and information bureau proposes the
district organise art performance programmes and create traditional cultural
space to preserve and develop the culture.
According to head of the bureau Nguyen Thanh Ha,
a number of practical measures have been rolled out to keep the Muong ethnic
culture alive such as arranging training classes for cultural officials and Mo
Muong artisans, debuting the club to preserve and promote Mo Muong cultural
heritage, and organising contest and festivals.
Besides, the district has listed local
intangible cultural heritage, handed the items on younger generations and
honour artisans, she said, adding the State has bestowed the artisan title on
nine folk artists, including seven Mo Muong, one Muong folk singing and one
Muong gong artist.
Meritorious artisan Bach Thi Dao in Beo hamlet,
Xuan Thuy commune, has had a strong passion for Muong folk songs since she was
a little girl. She established a Muong folk singing and gong club in 2017 with
a view to teaching local kids about the Muong tradition.
Statistics showed that there are 45 shamans in
Kim Boi district who have a great deal of knowledge and a deep insight into the
Mo Muong values. They have conducted Mo Muong rituals in line with current
regulations to preserve and promote its values.
In the coming time, Kim Boi district will
continue communications work to raise public awareness of the preservation of
the traditional values, and encourage communes and town to establish cultural
clubs and honour those who make contributions to safeguarding the local
cultural treasure.
The People’s Committee of Lac Son district held a ceremony on April 28 to receive the provincial relic certificate for the ancient rock carving site at Suoi Co stream, located in My Thanh commune.
A special music show titled "The country is in the fullness of joy” has been held at Hoa Binh Square in Hoa Binh city in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification (April 30, 1975–2025).
The People's Committee of Lo Son commune, Tan Lac district, has organised the local annual traditional stream fishing festival on April 19 - 20.
As a land deeply intertwined with human history and Vietnam’s millennia-long journey of nation-building and defence, Hoa Binh is often revered for its epic tales and legends.
Residents of Hoa Binh boast a rich cultural identity, reflected in their unique language, traditional attire, customs, and folk melodies – described as "sweet as honey, clear as a mountain stream.”
Lac Son district’s Vu ban town held the 2025 Truong Kha temple festival on April 12–13 (the 15th–16th days of the third lunar month). Since its revival in 2019, the festival has been organised every three years, preserving valuable intangible heritage while meeting the community’s cultural and spiritual needs.
