(Van Ho) From March 15-17, in Chieng Khoa commune, Van Ho district, the 2024 Ban Flower Festival will be held. This year's festival is organized at the district level to promote the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" associated with preserving and honoring the traditional cultural identities of ethnic groups in the area.
Solidarity dance at the Ban Flower Festival
Accordingly, the Bang Muong Temple ceremony will be held on the morning of March 15 at the Bang Muong Temple Historical and Cultural Relic, Khoong village, Chieng Khoa commune, with rituals to invite the local god, river god, mountain god, and Ban to join in the fun and bless the villagers with prosperity, happiness, and the success of the Festival. The opening ceremony will take place at 7:00 p.m. on March 15 at the Chieng Khoa Commune Stadium with a special art program and excerpts from the Festival so that visitors and people can better understand the story of Ban. Within the framework of the Festival, there will be many attractive activities such as the Ban Flower Beauty Contest; exhibitions introducing traditional culture, tourism products, and local agriculture; exchanges and competitions in sports and folk games such as throwing con, crossbow shooting, stick pushing, tug of war, cockfighting, men's volleyball; Fishing competition; processing and displaying traditional dishes and highland culinary culture space.
Currently, preparations for the Festival are being urgently carried out by Van Ho district. The construction of detailed scripts, selection of actors and rehearsals for the art program are being accelerated by professional agencies. Plans to ensure security, order, traffic safety, fire prevention and fighting, food hygiene and safety, etc. are also being carefully prepared.
The Ban Flower Festival is one of the typical cultural activities that is maintained and organized annually, during the blooming season of Ban flowers, contributing to promoting the image of Ban flowers, Bang Muong Temple Festival associated with the potential and strengths of tourism development of the district to a large number of domestic and foreign tourists, attracting investment resources, making tourism a spearhead economic sector of the district, creating momentum for growth and economic restructuring according to the goals of the Resolution of the 2nd District Party Congress and the Action Program of the District Party Executive Committee on tourism development for the period 2020 - 2025.
Lan Anh