Keo Pagoda Festival in Autumn in Thai Binh province attracts many tourists

NDO – After 8 days of organization, the Festival at the special national relic Keo Pagoda, Vu Thu district, Thai Binh province has ended with many positive signals, in which the number of tourists coming to the festival has increased each year.

According to the Organizing Committee of the Autumn Keo Pagoda Festival, it is estimated that during the festival days (from October 12-19, 2024), the locality welcomed from 160,000 to 170,000 people to visit, worship, sightsee and participate in the rich and diverse activities of the festival.

According to statistics, 5/8 days of the festival have cultural and artistic activities, OCOP Fair takes place in the evening. This is the right time and very ideal to attract tourists to the main festival of the year.

Releasing flower lanterns at the Keo Pagoda Festival in Autumn in Thai Binh. (Photo: Nguyen Thuyen)

Talking to Nhan Dan Newspaper, Ms. Pham Thi Binh, Deputy Head of Keo Pagoda Relic Management Board, said that in addition to practicing traditional beliefs such as worshiping, carrying the Saint's palanquin, spirit mediumship or organizing folk games during the day, in recent festivals, the Organizing Committee has paid special attention to exploiting more time and space to experience festival activities in the evening.

According to Ms. Binh, at this time the festival often has its own color, more sparkling and magical, helping visitors to Keo Pagoda have a completely different feeling than during the day, like being lost in a fairyland, a heritage land with its own unique features.

Performing puppetry in worship of the Saints, a unique cultural activity at the Keo Pagoda Festival in Autumn. (Photo: Nguyen Thuyen)

These are traditional water puppet shows of Nguyen Xa puppetry troupe; exchanges between Cheo Clubs from Khuoc village (Dong Hung district), O Me 2 village, Tan Phong commune, La Uyen village, Minh Quang commune and Sao Den village, Song An commune (all in Vu Thu district).

It is also a magical lantern festival with spiritual colors, praying for national peace and prosperity, bountiful harvests, peace and prosperity for everyone and every family. And besides, it is impossible not to mention the OCOP Fair with the largest scale ever, gathering 130 booths of entities inside and outside the province.

Duck catching competition on the lake during the Keo Pagoda Festival in Autumn. (Photo: Nguyen Thuyen)

Ms. Tran Thi Minh Yen, Principal of Vu Thu Town Primary School, said that in the past 2 years, the Keo Pagoda Autumn Festival has become more profound and exciting because of the many rich and attractive experiential activities that have taken place, but have not lost the traditional festival spirit of the residents of the Red River rice-growing region.

According to Ms. Yen, at present, it is necessary to balance the preservation of traditional features and old customs while still accepting and adapting new things to suit the trend. Keo Pagoda Festival is taking steps in this direction, creating great attraction for people and tourists from all over the world.

According to Professor of History Le Van Lan, who has been invited for two consecutive years to be an advisor for the opening art program of Keo Pagoda Festival, the organizing committee has been very successful in cleverly allocating and spreading out the festival activities at different times (daytime, evening); the festival space is also widely organized in places in the Keo Pagoda National Monument, creating balance, harmony and bringing a full festival atmosphere to the feelings of each visitor.

About the heritage land of Keo Pagoda Festival in Autumn. (Photo: Nguyen Thuyen)

The general feeling of people attending the Keo Pagoda Festival this fall is that the organization is well-organized and orderly; the environment and landscape are clean and airy. The kiosks selling goods located along the lake were removed by the local government, creating more space for the Keo Pagoda relic.

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