Do Son Island Festival 2024 takes place from March 10 to March 18

(Haiphong.gov.vn) – On the morning of March 10 (February 1, Giap Thin year), Do Son district held an incense offering and flag raising ceremony for the 2024 Dau Island Festival. Comrade Le Khac Nam, Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee attended the program.

Immediately after the incense offering ceremony to inform the gods took place at Nghe Temple in Van Huong Ward; the Organizing Committee of the Dao Dau Festival performed the flag raising ceremony to open the festival at Dao Dau. This is a traditional spiritual and cultural ceremony, opening the Dao Dau Festival, Do Son. The flag raising ceremony is held with the meaning of not only praying for "good weather", "national peace and people's peace" but also reminding the younger generations to preserve the morality of "remembering the source when drinking water", remembering the homeland; respect and gratitude to the ancestors who had the merit of "opening mountains and breaking rocks", establishing the land of Do Son; arousing pride in the homeland and country throughout the process of construction and development.

The leaders performed the opening ceremony.

Preparations are given special attention by Do Son district, especially ensuring absolute safety for incoming and outgoing boats picking up passengers. With 6 watercrafts, carrying from 18 to 45 passengers, all strictly carry out registration, inspection, licensing procedures and have certificates to receive tourists . Each vehicle is equipped with life jackets for each passenger. Transportation service prices and tickets to visit scenic spots are publicly listed right at the pier at 90,000 VND/person.

People and tourists are given environmental protection bags.

The new point of this year's Festival is that with the message "Join hands for Hon Dau Island - a destination without plastic waste", the Organizing Committee prepared thousands of environmental protection cloth bags to distribute to groups and tourists bringing gifts and food to the island, encouraging people and tourists to bring their trash back to the mainland. On the environmental protection cloth bags are printed messages reminding visitors "Take nothing but pictures", "Leave nothing but footprints" so that Hon Dau Island is always bright - green - clean - civilized.

A large number of local people and tourists attended the festival.

After the flag-raising ceremony to open the festival this morning, at 8:00 a.m. on March 11, 2024 (February 2, Giap Thin year), the Festival Organizing Committee will organize the procession and display of the lute; from 4:00 p.m. on March 18, 2024 (February 9, Giap Thin year), the opening ceremony will be held; from 11:05 p.m. on March 18, 2024 (the night of February 9, Giap Thin year), the main incense offering ceremony will be held.

In addition to traditional ceremonies, there are cultural activities imbued with national identity, including: Chess Festival taking place on March 10-11, 2024 (ie February 1-2, Giap Thin year); and the 2nd Do Son Open Hat Van and Chau Van Festival taking place on 2 evenings on March 17 and 18, 2024 (February 8 and 9, Giap Thin year). The program is staged by Distinguished Artist Hoang Gia Nhat (ie Hoang Gia Bon) - Head of Long Son Temple (Co Chin Suoi Rong Temple, Do Son), Head of Hai Phong Mother Goddess Worship Club. The outdoor stage is elaborately and uniquely designed, with the participation of 9 artisans and mediums from the northern provinces and cities, promising to bring impressive performances, helping the audience understand more deeply the spiritual cultural values in "The practice of worshipping the Mother Goddess of the Three Realms of the Vietnamese people".

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