‘Bai Choi’ singing (a popular folklore style of singing in the central and south central regions of Viet Nam), has been added to the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
A festival featuring the worship of Mother Goddesses will bring many folk artists from across the nation to Ha Noi on November 9-13.
Hundreds of artists from 16 art troupes gathered at the second Van singing festival which opened in the northern province of Bac Giang on October 25.
The Giong Festival began in Phu Dong Village, Gia Lam District, Ha Noi, on May 2 or the seventh day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, attracting many tourists.
A Vietnamese saying goes “Thang Tam gio Cha, thang Ba gio Me” (the Father’s Death Anniversary Falls in the eighth lunar month and the Mother’s in the third lunar month). This shows gratitude respectively to “Duc Thanh Tran” (Saint Tran) and “Thanh Mau Lieu Hanh” (Mother Goddess Lieu Hanh) as the Vietnamese thousands of year-old religious philosophy says “uong nuoc nho nguon” (remember its source…
(TITC) - The 2nd National Don Ca Tai Tu Music and Song Festival with the theme “Don ca tai tu music and song of the South – Preservation and Development” will take place from 8 to 12 April 2017 in Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong Province with the participations of art troupes from 21 provinces/cities nationwide.
A ceremony marking an official UNESCO certificate of recognition for "Practices Related to the Viet Beliefs in the Mother Goddesses in Three Realms" as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity was held last night at the Phu Giay worshipping complex in the northern province of Nam Dinh.
(TITC) - Tugging is a longstanding and popular form of community activity in rice farming cultures in East Asia and Southeast Asia, typically the Republic of Korea, Cambodia, Philippines and Viet Nam.
The northern midland province of Phu Tho is aiming to hold a hugely successful Hung Kings Temple festival in 2017, heard a conference to review planning for the festival on March 15.
“Hat Xoan” (Xoan singing), a celebrated art form in Viet Nam’s northern province of Phu Tho, which was recorgnised by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage in need of urgent safeguarding, is expected to be recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity by 2017.
(TITC) - Since September 2015, the art program themed “Performance of Vi and Giam folk songs of Nghe Tinh - Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity” will be organized free for visitors in Kim Lien Relic Site (Kim Lien Commune, Nam Dan District, Nghe An Province).
The central province of Nghe An is implementing a series of measures to preserve and promote the value of Vi-Giam folk singing, an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.