(HBO) - Over the past years, to carry out Directive 41-CT/TW, issued by the 11th-tenure Party Central Committee’s Secretariat on February 5, 2015, on enhancing the Party’s leadership over the management and organisation of festivals, the culture, sports and tourism sector of Hoa Binh province has worked hard to uphold and bring into play traditional cultural values.


A tutelary god palanquin procession in the Khai ha (going to the field) festival in the Muong Bi area of Tan Lac district.

Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Luu Huy Linh said thanks to the attention of provincial leaders and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as well as efforts of local authorities, the preservation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage values have been stepped up.

There are hundreds of spring festivals across Hoa Binh at present, including over 40 festivals of local ethnic minorities restored recently such as the Khai ha Muong Bi Festival in Tan Lac district, the Xen Ban and Xen Muong festivals of the Thai ethnic group in Mai Chau district, the Gau Tao Festival of Mong people in Mai Chau, and the Long Tong Festival of Tay people in Da Bac district.

Under the provincial administration’s directions, local relic sites have been restored and upgraded. Nineteen of the 68 relic sites in the province have been rated so far while the management, protection, and promotion of values of these places have been associated with the organisation of festivals.

Party committees, authorities and organisations from the provincial to grassroots levels have taken action to enhance their leadership over the management and organisation of festivals. The target is to organise local festivals in a solemn, economical, and effective manner that is in line with fine customs and traditional cultural values so as to meet people’s cultural and spiritual demand. They expect that by doing so, festivals in Hoa Binh will attract more visitors, thus better preserving and bringing into play cultural identities of ethnic minority groups in the province./.

 


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