April 24, 2018 | 20:44 (GMT+7)
Phu Tho bustling with Hung Kings Temple Festival activities
PANO – Activities in celebration of the Hung Kings Festival 2018 began on April 23 (March 8 in the lunar calendar) in the campus of the Special National Relic Site of Hung Kings Temple and various other communes, wards, and townlets of the city of Viet Tri, Phu Tho province.
The activities include palanquin processions from communes, wards and townlets to the Hung Kings Temple, book and art exhibitions, Chung (square) and Day (round sticky rice) cake-making contests, Xoan (Spring) singing, incense offering, art performances, to name just a few.
The People’s Army Newspaper Online would like to present a number of images of these activities.
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According to the organizing panel, by the end of April 22 (March 7 in the lunar calendar), more than 1.5 million people had visited the Hung Kings Temple. |
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Xoan singing, an element of the intangible cultural heritage of human kind, held at the cultural camp event within the campus of the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site. |
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Chung and Day cake-making contest is a special cultural feature at the annual Hung Kings Temple Festival. |
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Delicious Chung cakes offered to Hung Kings |
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The festival helps promote the origins and folklore of the nation as well as images of Phu Tho province and its tourism sector, to potential investors and everybody nationwide. |
Translated by Huu Duong