Ho Chi Minh City: Opening of Nghinh Ong Festival - Can Gio 2025

VHO - On the morning of October 5 at Can Thanh Park (Can Gio Commune, Ho Chi Minh City), the Great Flag Raising Ceremony - Opening of the Whale Festival - Can Gio 2025 took place.

Before attending the Flag Raising Ceremony, the Organizing Committee of the Nghinh Ong Festival - Can Gio 2025 solemnly held a Visiting Ceremony at the Rung Sac Martyrs Cemetery and the Rung Sac Heroic Martyrs Temple.

Organizing Committee of the Festival to visit the Rung Sac Martyrs Cemetery and the Rung Sac Heroes Martyrs Temple

The Memorial Ceremony is an annual activity with profound humanistic meaning, demonstrating the tradition of remembering the source of the Party Committee, government and people of Can Gio commune to commemorate and show gratitude for the heroic sacrifices of the heroic martyrs.

Nghinh Ong Festival - Can Gio 2025 takes place from October 5 to 7 in Can Gio commune, aiming to preserve and promote traditional cultural values ​​of the locality, contributing to building and developing an advanced Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity.

In particular, focusing on preserving the unique cultural features of coastal people, strengthening propaganda and education on love for the profession, love for the homeland, the sacred sea and islands of the Fatherland.

Secretary of the Can Gio Commune Party Committee Nguyen Ngoc Vu spoke at the ceremony

Speech at the Flag Raising Ceremony - Opening of the Festival Nghinh Ong - Can Gio 2025, Secretary of the Can Gio Commune Party Committee Nguyen Ngoc Vu said: "The festival has profound humanistic meaning, is an occasion for the community to remember the ancestors of the profession, show gratitude to the ancestors who opened up the land, and at the same time strengthen solidarity and love for the sacred sea and islands.

With careful preparation from the local government and the community's cooperation, the Nghinh Ong Festival - Can Gio 2025 is expected to become a key cultural and tourism event, contributing to bringing the image of Can Gio, the only island of Ho Chi Minh City, closer to domestic and foreign tourists.

Ceremony at the Great Flag Raising Ceremony - Opening of the Whale Festival - Can Gio 2025

On this occasion, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Vu called on all Can Gio residents to demonstrate the spirit of hospitality, cultural behavior, creating a joyful and exciting atmosphere to welcome tourists with the spirit of: Civilization - Friendliness - Affection - Cultural behavior - Environmental protection.

Since then, we have worked together to overcome difficulties, love our jobs, stick to the sea, go offshore, and strive to get rich to contribute to building and developing Can Gio commune to become more and more beautiful, civilized, and affectionate.

According to annual tradition, every Mid-Autumn Festival - the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, Can Gio commune organizes the Whale Festival with folk rituals praying for national peace and prosperity, favorable weather and healthy entertainment activities in a bustling, joyful atmosphere.

The festival features many practical activities, with content imbued with traditional folklore and cultural, artistic and sports activities.

Nghinh Ong - Can Gio Festival started in the year of Quy Suu 1913 until now, it has been 112 years. This year, the 112th anniversary of Nghinh Ong - Can Gio Festival being recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Festival still retains its values ​​and is increasingly welcomed by the people.

The festival is an occasion for people to remember the merits of their ancestors who reclaimed the land, gradually built a life and formed a new lifestyle suitable and adapted to the natural conditions of Can Gio land.

Young people compete in sack jumping

This year, the Festival is being held by the Organizing Committee of major holidays in Ho Chi Minh City with many practical activities, content imbued with traditional folklore and attractive and novel cultural, artistic, sports, commercial and tourism activities, expected to attract tens of thousands of people and tourists to attend.

Immediately after the Flag Raising Ceremony - Opening of the Festival Nghinh Ong - Can Gio 2025, there were sports competitions such as bicycle racing, petanque, sack racing, physical games, etc.

This evening, October 5, at Can Thanh Park, there will be an art performance, a Lion - Lion - Dragon performance and a ceremony to celebrate the achievements of Can Gio fishermen.

Some pictures at the opening ceremony:

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