Discover the unique features of the Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival 2025

Khám phá nét độc đáo tại Lễ hội mùa thu Côn Sơn - Kiếp Bạc năm 2025 - Ảnh 1. — A corner of the Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival - Photo: Hai Phong Newspaper

Promote and market tourism in Con Son - Kiep Bac

The Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival in 2025 is the first unique and typical traditional cultural event of Hai Phong City after the merger, commemorating the 725th death anniversary of National Hero Tran Hung Dao and the 583rd death anniversary of National Hero and World Cultural Celebrity Nguyen Trai.

At the same time, honor, promote and publicize the event of the Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son and Kiep Bac relic and landscape complex being recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage, contributing to raising awareness and responsibility of officials and people in practicing, preserving and promoting the value of national cultural heritage.

Through activities at the festival, tourism resources will be introduced and promoted, tourism and trade will be promoted, tourism and service development of the Con Son - Kiep Bac relic site and the city will be promoted, and the Con Son - Kiep Bac relic site will be oriented towards becoming an international tourist site.

The 2025 Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival is expected to be held from October 1 to 12, 2025 (ie from the 10th to the 21st of the eighth lunar month).

Khám phá nét độc đáo tại Lễ hội mùa thu Côn Sơn - Kiếp Bạc năm 2025 - Ảnh 2. — Kiep Bac Temple Area - Photo: THANH CHUNG

Standardize rituals worthy of world heritage status

The difference at the Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival in 2025 is that the rituals and festival activities have been upgraded in scale, and the rituals have been standardized to be worthy of world heritage status.

At the Kiep Bac relic site, the festival space is extended from the Kiep Bac temple gate to the Luc Dau river. The art program is staged combining performing arts, singing, dancing, music, circus and 3D mapping-layer mapping visual arts... modern, majestic, recreating the glorious feats of arms and people of the Tran dynasty, especially of the National Duke and Commander-in-Chief Hung Dao Dai Vuong, on the land of Van Kiep.

At the same time, promote and publicize the outstanding global values of the five component relics of the world heritage site in the west of Hai Phong as well as the typical cultural values of Hai Phong city.

In addition, the Culture, Tourism and Trade Promotion Week, in addition to expanding its scale, organizing booths to display, introduce, and promote culture, tourism, trade promotion, OCOP products, typical agricultural and handicraft products, traditional craft villages, and unique cuisine of localities inside and outside Hai Phong City, also organizes demonstration activities and introduces product manufacturing processes for visitors to experience.

At the same time, organize performances and exchanges of cultural and artistic activities, traditional folk arts to serve the people and tourists during the Culture, Tourism and Trade Promotion Week.

In particular, the program introducing new tourism products is built on 3 themes: the experience tour "A journey of 5 world heritage destinations", the experience tour "Following the footsteps of the Three Patriarchs of Truc Lam" and the tour "Discovering the heritage of Con Son, Kiep Bac".

The content introduces tourism products exploiting 5 relic sites: Con Son Pagoda, Kiep Bac Temple, Thanh Mai Pagoda, Kinh Chu Cave, Nham Duong Pagoda belonging to the World Heritage Complex of Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son, Kiep Bac and accommodation, food and beverage, and experience services according to the above 3 themes.