Nearly 800 artisans participate in Gia Lai province's Ethnic Culture Festival

The festival takes place over 2 days (April 12 and 13) with main activities such as: recreating community living space, performing gongs, folk songs, folk dances, traditional musical instruments; performing gong tuning techniques, performing ethnic costumes, walking on stilts, relay sack jumping and pounding rice with a pair of pestles.

The Duc Co district artisans brought the image of the national gate (Le Thanh international border gate) and the 30th milestone to the Festival. **Photo: Hoang Ngoc**

Many unique traditional rituals are recreated such as: victory celebration, communal house worship, new rice celebration, buffalo stabbing, grave abandonment, water drop offering, longevity celebration, wedding ceremony, thanksgiving, water procession to the village...

The festival gathered nearly 800 artisans from 6 ethnic groups, mainly Bahnar and Jrai. **Photo: Hoang Ngoc**

In particular, on the night of April 12, the art program “Echoes of the Roots” will take place - the highlight of the festival, demonstrating the spirit of solidarity and unity among ethnic groups. The art program will be livestreamed by Gia Lai Electronic Newspaper on the Newspaper's Fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/baogialai.net

The event is organized annually by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to preserve and promote national cultural identity, and is also a meaningful activity towards the 50th anniversary of Southern Liberation Day (April 30, 1975 - April 30, 2025), the 79th anniversary of Uncle Ho's letter to the Congress of Southern Ethnic Minorities (April 19, 1946 - April 19, 2025) and the Day of Culture of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups (April 19).