On March 13th, as part of the pre-festival activities, Vo Nhai district organized the 7th Ethnic Minority Arts Festival with the theme "Vo Nhai - The Flavors and Colors of the Highlands".
Nearly 300 actors and artists from 15 troupes representing communes and towns in the district participated in the festival, presenting 45 performances that reflected the distinctive and typical cultural characteristics of the ethnic groups in the mountainous Vo Nhai district.
According to the plan, at the Vo Nhai Festival, visitors will experience many unique activities such as: cultural camps, rural markets, bonfires, bamboo pole dancing, and cultural performances of ethnic minorities... In addition, there will be traditional sports and folk games such as: throwing the ball, blindfolded duck catching, tug-of-war, and crossbow shooting…
One of the new features of this year's festival is that visitors will be able to experience Market 4.0 – cashless payment at stalls in the rural market area. In addition, there will be many attractive cultural and artistic activities aimed at promoting tourism and showcasing the potential of Vo Nhai district.
First held in 2014, "Vo Nhai: The Roots of Culture" is the largest cultural festival in the locality and is held annually. Since 2023, the festival has been organized on an even larger scale, contributing to opening up opportunities for socio -economic development in the Vo Nhai highland region.
Vo Nhai is the only mountainous district in Thai Nguyen province, home to eight ethnic groups living together. This area is the birthplace of humankind and the cradle of the Vietnamese revolution.
Notably, the Mai Da Nguom archaeological site (Than Sa commune) – a dwelling place of ancient Vietnamese people – is noteworthy. Excavation pits at the Mai Da Nguom site reveal a stratigraphic layer with four distinct cultural strata. Characteristic stone artifacts of the Bac Son, Hoa Binh, and Son Vi cultures are found in the first and second layers; the third layer contains purely tools characteristic of Nguom culture; and the fourth cultural layer contains tens of thousands of stone tools. These archaeological discoveries have helped archaeologists determine that Than Sa, and Vietnam in general, has a Paleolithic archaeological culture (Than Sa culture).
Due to its significant scientific importance and special position in understanding the evolutionary history of prehistoric humans in Vietnam in particular and mainland Southeast Asia in general, the Than Sa archaeological site was classified as a National Heritage site by the State in 1982.
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