“ Vietnam Holidays “ - The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology will organise a series of interesting events to celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays from February 19-21, promising an enjoyable experience combining traditional images, sounds and foods of Vietnam’s diverse people and regions.
The grand opening ceremony will be held on February 19 with a fireworks display and water puppet show.
The
events will provide Vietnamese and foreigners alike with knowledge of
the Lunar New Year celebrations and folk culture of the ethnic minority
people in different regions throughout the country.
The
programme will be enhanced with gong performances, musical instruments
and ethnic folk songs by 20 Gie Trieng ethnic people from the Tay
Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Kon Tum.
Tourists will
also have a rare chance to enjoy an ethnic bamboo dance of the Thai
ethnic people, the central province of Thanh Hoa. Twenty local artists
will come to the museum and perform their dance to celebrate the New
Year and completed rice harvest.
A water puppetry performance
will also take place on the occasion. Children will not only have a
chance to enjoy the performances, but also learn how to manipulate the
puppets under the instruction of puppeteers from the Hong Phong troupe,
based in the northern province of Hai Duong. There will be four daily
performances from February 17.
Visitors will be treated to
decorative calligraphy, featuring ‘lucky’ words such as Phuc, Loc and
Tho (happiness, prosperity and longevity) which are traditionally hung
in celebration of the new year.
Artists from Dong Ho Village
in the northern province of Bac Ninh will display their folk artworks
on do (poonah) paper and guide visitors in the art of print-making.
Visitors
can join traditional games and enjoy ethnic minority food specialities.
As it’s the Year of Tiger, games and a toy-making competition will
feature the theme of tiger such as tiger masks, clay and dough tigers.
Last year, the Tet Festival at the museum attracted 27,000 visitors, according to museum officer Tran Thi Thu Thuy.
Just
want to let you know that we had a marvellous trip to Vietnam ,Laos and all the
guides and sites were very well planned and organised so a big thank
you. Next trip will be Cambodia and possibly Vietnam and 6 days on a
beach location. We’ll contact you soon for our trip.
