(HBO) – Thanks to the support from central and local authorities, communes in Hoa Binh province have continued mobilising and spending resources on cultural development so as to improve rural residents’ living standards.
Tan
Vinh commune of Luong Son district has been equipped with a large stadium which
has met local residents’ demand.
In the first nine months of 2021, communes
completed financial documents for 235 cultural works whose construction started
in 2020, including six communal cultural centres, seven communal stadiums, and
222 cultural and sports centres of hamlets.
So far, 75 of the 129 communes in Hoa Binh have
met Criterion No. 6 on cultural infrastructure in the national target programme
on new-style rural area building.
Besides, to satisfy Criterion No. 16 on culture,
local communes have been working to promote the building of civilised families
and villages, thereby greatly contributing to the movement that calls on all
people to stay united to develop a civilised lifestyle and build new-style
countryside. Their efforts have also helped improve many social aspects in
rural areas.
As a result, 116 of the 129 communes in the
province have met Criterion No. 16 on culture./.
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.