The Festival of Spring Colours is taking place at the Vietnam Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism throughout February with a series of traditional cultural activities.
Visitors to the festival can learn how to cook delicious dishes from different ethnic groups. (Photo: langvanhoavietnam.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Festival of Spring Colours is taking place at theVietnam Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism throughout February with aseries of traditional cultural activities.
The festival is held annually to welcome the spring and to honour ethniccommunities' identity, promote solidarity among them and offer a traditionalfestive atmosphere to tourists as well.
Some 100 representatives of 15 ethnic groups from 13 localities throughout thecountry will host activities each day during the month.
The festival climax will be on February 11 and 12 with the Kate Festival of theCham group, tree planting, folk cham do ho singing and performing Xoe Thai - aUNESCO recognised intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
The Kate Festival is one of the biggest and most unique cultural activities ofthe Cham. It features a host of activities and ceremonies at ancient towers,with traditions including offerings to ancestors, musical performances, and thesigning of hymns praising kings who were prominent in the building anddevelopment of the Champa Kingdom and the Cham people.
Tree planting has become an annual Vietnamese custom each Lunar New Year sincePresident Ho Chi Minh initiated the campaign, contributing to environmentalprotection, socio-economic development, and national defence and security.
Since then, tree planting has been practised whenever a lunar new year comes.It will take place over half an hour at the Thai ethnic village.
Some 60 Thai artists from the northern province of Son La will perform Xee Thai.The dance expresses the solidarity, democracy and collectiveness of the Thaipeople.
The group dance xoe at spring festivals, crop festival and weddings, which hasbeen considered a cultural symbol of the northwest region.
Xoe Thai performances will begin at 2.30pm on February 11 and 9.30 and 2.30pmon February 12.
There will be folk games, traditional dishes, typical delicacies of variousethnic groups and folk singing and dancing.
In addition, visitors to the festival can enjoy and learn how to cook deliciousdishes and specialties and make traditional handicrafts of the groups.
The festival offers an opportunity for ethnic groups to meet and exchangecultural values and daily life activities. It also contributes to honouring andpreserving the traditional culture of Vietnamese ethnic minorities./.
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Visitors to the festival can learn how to cook delicious dishes from different ethnic groups. (Photo: langvanhoavietnam.vn) 
