(HBO) – Visiting Mai Chau district on autumn days, visitors could enjoy music and dance performances everywhere in jubilant atmosphere.
The
district now has 183 art troupes, 138 of them were set up by the district
People’s Committee and receive an annual aid worth 2 million VND. In hamlets,
villages and community-based tourism areas in particular, 2-5 art troupes with
12-15 members regularly practise and perform. Ha Van Tuan, Director of the
district Centre of Culture and Sports said the district recently successfully
held a local art show 2017, attracting more than 340 artists from 21 troupes of
communes and townships. They made 60 performances of songs and dances extolling
the Party, Uncle Ho and soldiers, the tradition of heroic fighting by the Vietnamese
nation through generations, and patriotism. Most of performances were
thoroughly prepared and left deep impression on the audiences. Via art shows,
mass music performances have proved to increase in both quantity and
quality.
Photo caption: A performance at Mai Chau
district’s art show 2017
Apart from joining music performances as
requested by authorities, almost all art troupes work voluntarily and actively
popularise the Party’s policies and guidelines and State laws to the public.
Thanks to support of the Party units, local authorities and private resources,
art troupes equipped themselves with audio and light equipment, costumes, and
instruments and actively composed scripts, directed and set the scene for their
performances, which attracted many audiences. At present, grassroots art
troupes play a crucial role in maintaining, preserving and upholding folk songs
and dances, many of them draw elderly artists who still remember folk songs by
the Muong, Dao, Thai ethnic groups and pass them on to younger
generations.
Not only being held during the New Year
festival, local festivals are organised regularly, attracting numerous people
from young to old ones. From mass art troupes, the district Centre of Culture
and Sports chose outstanding artists and formed art troupes to join art shows
held by the province. At the provincial art show 2017 held in mid-August, Mai
Chau district’s art troupe brought to the stage excellent performances, which
were welcomed by audiences and won A prize./.
The People’s Committee of Lac Son district held a ceremony on April 28 to receive the provincial relic certificate for the ancient rock carving site at Suoi Co stream, located in My Thanh commune.
A special music show titled "The country is in the fullness of joy” has been held at Hoa Binh Square in Hoa Binh city in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification (April 30, 1975–2025).
The People's Committee of Lo Son commune, Tan Lac district, has organised the local annual traditional stream fishing festival on April 19 - 20.
As a land deeply intertwined with human history and Vietnam’s millennia-long journey of nation-building and defence, Hoa Binh is often revered for its epic tales and legends.
Residents of Hoa Binh boast a rich cultural identity, reflected in their unique language, traditional attire, customs, and folk melodies – described as "sweet as honey, clear as a mountain stream.”
Lac Son district’s Vu ban town held the 2025 Truong Kha temple festival on April 12–13 (the 15th–16th days of the third lunar month). Since its revival in 2019, the festival has been organised every three years, preserving valuable intangible heritage while meeting the community’s cultural and spiritual needs.
