PANO - A chung cake (traditional Vietnamese rice cake) wrapping program for the needy in 2016 will take place on January 30th and 31st at the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Minority Groups in Ba Vi District on the outskirts of Hanoi.

The event is expected to attract the participation of 500 people, including Buddhists from Phap Van and Khai Nguyen pagodas, youths from Son Tay town, Co Dong, Yen Binh and Yen Bai communes and troops of Army Officers Training School 1 to wrap 1,200 chung cakes for wounded and sick soldiers, orphans, ethnic minority people, and needy people in Son La, Ha Giang, and Cao Bang provinces, as well as victims of agent orange.

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Launched for the first time last year, the program aims to introduce special cultural features of Vietnamese traditional Tet (Lunar New Year) festival to both domestic and international friends, making contributions to preserving and promoting invaluable traditional cultural values of the country.

It is also an opportunity to promote Vietnam’s great unity and encourage the needy and ethnic minority people to have a warm and comfortable Tet.

During the program, artisans from Uoc Le hamlet, Tan Uoc commune, Hanoi, will guide the participants in wrapping the square-shaped cakes. In addition, organizers will prepare ingredients to make some traditional cakes of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam and introduce their Tet celebration customs.

A “neu” tree (planted by Vietnamese and Vietnamese ethnic minority people in their courtyards on the occasion of New Year festival to pray for peaceful, happy, and prosperous New Year for people) will be planted in the Culture-Tourism Village of Vietnamese Ethnic Minority Groups in Dong Mo hamlet, Son Tay.

Translated by Tran Hoai