My Tho City: Traditional Chol Chnam Thmay New Year Meeting 2025

Attending the meeting were Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tien Giang province Huynh Van Hai; Permanent Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of My Tho City Trinh Van Loi.

For the Khmer people, the traditional Chol Chnam Thmay Festival is a New Year festival held in mid-April every year (usually from April 14, 15 to 16). Usually, on these days, Khmer people gather at the pagoda. At the pagoda, monks organize ceremonies with different rituals and meanings.

Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tien Giang province Huynh Van Hai presents gifts to Khmer ethnic people.

The traditional Chol Chnam Thmay festival represents the Khmer people's concept of the cycle of the year; it aimsto educate people about filial piety, solidarity, and love for each other. It is also an occasion for people to meet each other to share blessings, congratulate, visit, discuss, and exchange experiences about the future. In addition, Chol Chnam Thmay festival is also an occasion for the Khmer people to express their dreams of happiness, their awareness of goodness, and their gratitude to their ancestors, grandparents, and parents during the year.

In My Tho city, the Khmer ethnic group has about 54 households, with 159 people, most of whom live in Trung An and Tan My Chanh communes, wards 9 and 10. These are households that have lived in residential areas for many years.

At the meeting, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of My Tho City Bui Van Bao informed about the city's socio -economic situation, the work of mobilizing ethnic minorities in the city to participate in the construction of new rural areas and civilized urban areas... Representatives of the Khmer ethnic group also spoke, expressing their feelings when the Party and State paid attention to and organized a warm meeting; at the same time, promised to continue to unite with the people in the residential area to participate in building My Tho City to be more and more civilized and modern.

On this occasion, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of My Tho City presented 41 gifts to Khmer people in difficult circumstances, each gift worth 300,000 VND (including rice, instant noodles and necessities), contributing to helping people reduce difficulties in life.

DAO HUY

Source: https://baoapbac.vn/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/202504/tp-my-tho-hop-mat-tet-co-truyen-chol-chnam-thmay-nam-2025-1038915/