Can Tho shows water lanterns and Ca Hau boats

This is one of the activities of the Ooc Om Boc Festival - Ngo Boat Racing in Can Tho city in 2025.

Can Tho City performs Water Lantern (Loi Protip) and Ca Hau boats.

Speaking at the performance, Mr. Nguyen Minh Tuan, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Can Tho City, said that according to the Khmer people's concept, the Water Lantern releasing ritual in the Ooc Om Boc Festival is imbued with the beliefs of agricultural residents and religious colors, in which the Khmer people want to express their gratitude to nature for blessing people to live and work peacefully and bring many good things.

The Water Lantern Performance aims to honor traditional cultural values, contribute to raising awareness in preserving and promoting the cultural heritage values of the Khmer people, and meet the needs of people to enjoy spiritual culture in the period of integration and development.

At the same time, it also demonstrates the Party and State's concern for implementing ethnic policies, promoting the potential and strengths of ethnic minorities in the city in conjunction with the policy of economic , cultural and social security development.

The performance of releasing water lanterns and Ca Hau boats is an activity within the framework of the Ooc Om Boc Festival - Ngo boat racing in Can Tho city in 2025.

According to the Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Can Tho City, the performance of releasing water lanterns and Ca Hau boats will contribute to making the activities in the Ooc Om Boc Festival - Ngo Boat Racing in Can Tho City, 2025 more exciting, rich and diverse.

In particular, this is also an opportunity to promote and introduce the image and people of Can Tho city with many unique cultural heritages and traditional festivals imbued with cultural identity to tourists and people inside and outside the city.

Source: https://congluan.vn/can-tho-trinh-dien-tha-den-nuoc-va-ghe-ca-hau-10316455.html