(HBO) - After the implementation time of the social gap to prevent and control Covid-19 epidemic, the sports and cultural clubs of the elderly in Hoa Binh City have been put back into operation from the end of April.
According to the Representative Board of the City's Elderly
Association, after the merger, there have been 130 sports and cultural clubs in
the city, attracting over 3,500 members to participate in regular training. The
activities of the clubs include soft volleyball, table tennis, badminton,
chess, walking and nourishing mind. Additionally, on the occasion of holidays
and Tet holidays, the elderly members have actively been responding to the cultural
and arts activities. Thereby, it helps to create a rewarding playground,
training and improving health to live cheerfully, healthily and happily.
Along with the sports and cultural clubs, the city has been
maintaining the operation of three intergenerational clubs with more than 150
members, helping each other in Phuong Lam, Tan Thinh and Thinh Minh wards. The
elderly people are the core of these clubs, which has been contributing to
actively supporting the lives of the members and the community, effectively
implementing the emulation movement "Old age - good example” of the Elderly
Association.
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.