Overseas Vietnamese from 23 countries attend Hung King's death anniversary

On April 25 (ie March 6 of the lunar calendar), a delegation of 75 overseas Vietnamese delegates from 23 countries around the world led by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs , Chairman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (SOCV) Pham Quang Hieu went to Phu Tho to attend the Hung Kings' Commemoration Ceremony - Hung Temple Festival in the year of Quy Mao 2023.

Overseas Vietnamese delegation offers incense at Thuong Temple (Photo: LA)

On the morning of April 25, the overseas Vietnamese delegation performed the incense offering ceremony to commemorate the Hung Kings at the Lower Temple, the Middle Temple and the Upper Temple. Unlike previous years, this year, after the incense offering ceremony, the overseas Vietnamese delegation held a ceremony to report their achievements and pay tribute to their ancestors, and offered incense and planted commemorative trees in the Gieng Temple area.

Overseas Vietnamese group plants star apple trees at Gieng Temple. (Photo: LA)

On the afternoon of April 25, the delegation continued to offer incense at the Temple of National Ancestor Lac Long Quan and then visited Hung Lo ancient village and watched Xoan singing performances.

Overseas Vietnamese delegation at the Temple of National Ancestor Lac Long Quan. (Photo: LA)

The Hung Kings' Commemoration Day is an annual program organized by the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with the People's Committee of Phu Tho province. After being interrupted in 2020 and 2021 and reduced in scale in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year's program of overseas Vietnamese attending the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day is organized on the same scale as before with many innovative contents.

The program aims to contribute to raising overseas Vietnamese's awareness of self-respect and pride in the nation's heroic traditions, showing gratitude to ancestors, demonstrating the morality of "remembering the source of water" and strengthening national solidarity.

Organizing a delegation of overseas Vietnamese to attend the Hung Kings' Commemoration Ceremony in 2023 also demonstrates the care, affection and responsibility of the Party and State for overseas Vietnamese, increasingly meeting their cultural and spiritual needs, encouraging generations of overseas Vietnamese to continue the good traditions of their ancestors, in line with the consistent policy emphasized in Conclusion No. 12-KL/TW of the Politburo : "Overseas Vietnamese are an inseparable part of the Vietnamese ethnic community".

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