(HBO) - The cultural and performance activities have not only been exciting in typical residential areas such as Bai, Men Boi, but they have also been spreading widely in other villages, from Tro, Go Che, Muon, Mo to Lo, Lap, Chieng . Nine out of the nine hamlets have all established and maintained the activities of entertaining teams with about 12 to 15 members for each team.
The performance team
of the elderly people in Me Boi hamlet, Kim Lap commune (Kim Boi) are
performing the dance "The Stroke of the countryside” on the Muong folk music in
the Festival of the Great National Unity.
Mr. Bui Van
Tin, the Vice Chairman of the Communal People's Committee says that after
merging, in the commune there are 9 hamlets with 2,003 households, and Muong
ethnic people account for 98%. Over the past time, with the attention of the
Party Committee and the authorities, the cultural, entertaining and sports
movements among the people have been promoted. In addition to the resolution on
the economic development, the communal Party Committee issued the resolution,
and the communal People’s Committee has a plan to promote the cultural and
entertaining movement associated with preserving the identity of the Muong
ethnic group.
On the
occasions of festivals, New Year, celebrations and important days of the year,
the commune has been maintaining the exchanging activities, the public
performances to attract and arouse the movement. Every year, there is a
mechanism to support part of the budget to encourage the helmets’ performance
teams to participate in practice. In addition, in the contests and festivals,
the locality also has gifts to promptly encourage, praise and reward the
performance teams.
From the
cultural movement and mass culture, the commune has selected the core cultural
nuclei to participate in contests and performances at the district’s level. At
the same time, through the lyrics, the dances and the performances of Muong
gongs with its own unique features, the conservation and preservation of the
cultural identity among the people has been promoted, and it has been more and
more popular and spreading. Thereby, it has been contributing to encouraging
the spirit of enthusiastic production labor, building a new countryside,
building a cultural life in the residential area. In 2020, the average income
per capita of the commune is estimated at 26 million VND. Through the review,
80% of households have met the standards of the cultural family.
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.