Visitors from all over flocked to Hung Temple in huge numbers ahead of the main festival.

The Hung Temple Festival and the 2024 Ancestral Land Culture and Tourism Week were organized with many diverse activities. Prior to the main festival day, thousands of visitors from all over the country flocked to the Hung Temple historical site.

For every Vietnamese person, the Hung Kings Commemoration Day - Hung Temple Festival has become a symbol of national unity. Therefore, every year in the third lunar month, Vietnamese people from all over the country eagerly return to the ancestral land of the nation: Hung Temple in Phu Tho. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

Although the main festival is still a few days away, a large number of locals and tourists from all over have flocked to Hung Temple to participate in the activities of the Ancestral Land Culture and Tourism Week in the Year of the Dragon 2024. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

Colorful scenes in the cultural exchange space of the Ancestral Land Culture and Tourism Week in the Year of the Dragon 2024. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

This is where traditional folk games of the ethnic minorities in Phu Tho are recreated. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

The Hung Kings Commemoration Day - Hung Temple Festival and Hung Land Culture and Tourism Week 2024 will take place from April 9-18 (corresponding to the 10th day of the 3rd lunar month) at the Hung Temple Historical Site in Viet Tri city and other districts, towns, and cities throughout the province. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

In addition to cultural exchange activities, the ceremonial part of this year's Hung Temple Festival includes: the Commemoration Ceremony for National Ancestor Lac Long Quan and the offering of incense to Ancestress Au Co on April 14th (6th day of the 3rd lunar month); the Hung Kings Commemoration Ceremony on April 18th (10th day of the 3rd lunar month); and the offering of incense to commemorate the Hung Kings by districts, towns, and cities in the province from April 9th to 18th (1st to 10th day of the 3rd lunar month). (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

At this year's Hung Temple Festival and Ancestral Land Culture and Tourism Week, locals and visitors from all over not only witnessed activities commemorating and paying tribute to the Hung Kings but also experienced and participated in many unique cultural, sports , and tourism activities. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

Besides the solemn and respectful ceremonies, this year's festival also features an art program themed "The Convergence of the Nation" and high-altitude fireworks; a cultural camp and exhibition showcasing and promoting products; a folk art and Phu Tho folk song festival; an exhibition of artifacts, world documentary heritage, books, newspapers, and photographic documents; a competition for wrapping and cooking banh chung (traditional Vietnamese rice cakes) and pounding banh giay (traditional Vietnamese rice cakes); a performance of Xoan singing from ancient villages; an art exhibition themed "Homeland, Country, and People of Phu Tho"; a trade fair and display of Phu Tho OCOP products… (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

The Xoe dance of the Muong ethnic group in Phu Tho. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

Tourists and locals in Phu Tho province join in the traditional bamboo pole dance as part of the Ancestral Land Culture and Tourism Week in the Year of the Dragon 2024. (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)

The organizers said the program also includes physical activities, sports, and traditional folk games; the Xoan Festival - Heritage Region art program; the opening of the Hung Temple Spirituality Marathon 2024 "Returning to the Source"; the inauguration of a bas-relief depicting President Ho Chi Minh speaking with officers and soldiers of the Vanguard Army; and art performances of folk songs and some recognized intangible cultural heritage forms... (Photo: Nhat Lam/Vietnam+)