Watch water puppetry in Phu Quoc

The show "Vietnamese Puppetry - Spring Festival" in Phu Quoc is the first water puppet show on the beach in Vietnam.

“Spring Festival” is designed to recreate the quintessence of the working life, production, beliefs and culture of Vietnamese people, especially during the New Year.

8 performances take viewers into the endless flow of Vietnamese culture, told by folk artists about village festivals, legends of the Dragon and Fairy's children, conical hats, wet rice agriculture , the worship of the Three Palaces... through the language of puppetry and traditional music.

Colorful puppets under the control of artists create unique and lively art performances.

The performance "Telling stories of harvest days" with the appearance of buffalo and farmers delighted the audience.

“Spring Festival” is not only about water puppetry, but also combines various types of performances such as puppetry, dance and singing. The musical performances also introduce visitors to other theatrical arts such as Cheo singing and Chau Van singing.

The combination of music and traditional art performances brought many emotions and experiences to the audience. Especially the performance “Telling the story of the harvest day” with the appearance of the buffalo and the farmer made many visitors burst into applause.

Meanwhile, the performance “Duyen dang quai thao” overwhelmed the audience with its performance effects, when the dancer appeared on a giant hat with graceful, cloud-like choreography that made the audience unable to take their eyes off.

Dancers perform on conical hats.

"Hello Vietnam" is the show's closing performance, remixed with four traditional musical instruments: flute, erhu, gourd, and tranh, combined with ao dai and conical hat dance, carrying the message of greeting from Vietnamese people to friends and tourists around the world .

Cate, a tourist from the US, shared: “The program is very interesting. I have heard a lot about Vietnamese puppetry, especially water puppetry, but have not had the opportunity to see it. I am so lucky that today my family came to Phu Quoc to watch and learn more about puppetry and Vietnamese culture through puppetry.”

Jing Xiang, a tourist from Taiwan (China) expressed her excitement after the show: “The show was so beautiful and elaborate, from the water stage to the costumes and puppets. I really admire the artists who controlled them so skillfully and soulfully.”

To create an attractive, novel program that preserves traditional cultural features, Sun Group cooperates with the Vietnam Puppetry Theater to stage and design the program to serve domestic and foreign tourists.

Vietnamese puppetry is one of the performances invested by Sun Group at the entertainment complex with a total investment of 4,000 billion VND in Hoang Hon town, with the desire to preserve and promote Vietnamese cultural identity to Vietnamese people and international tourists.

After each performance, visitors can also interact with the artists, experience water puppetry, puppet parades around the beach and Vui Phet night market...

Water puppetry is a traditional folk theatrical art form born from the unique creativity of the Vietnamese people. It was born about 10 centuries ago in the Red River Delta (some say that water puppetry was born during the construction of Co Loa citadel, in 255 BC).

Foreign tourists enjoy watching water puppetry in Phu Quoc.

This type of art is often performed on holidays, village festivals, happy days, and New Year's Day, using puppets to perform plays on the water. Water puppetry is also considered a unique intangible cultural feature of Vietnam.

Water puppetry is gradually fading away, so the show "Vietnamese Puppetry - Spring Festival" has brought a cool breeze of traditional culture in the European space of Hoang Hon town.

With a series of unique tourism products and continuously invested iconic works, Hoang Hon town is becoming one of the most attractive places for tourists on Phu Quoc pearl island.

The stage of the show "Vietnamese Puppetry - Spring Festival" recreates the water temple of Thay Pagoda - a unique architectural and artistic relic from the Ly Dynasty, creating a highlight between the modern and poetic space in Hoang Hon town.

Water puppetry has different characteristics from normal puppetry, which is using water as a stage (called puppet house or water pavilion), behind which is a backdrop (called a y mon panel). Around the water puppetry stage are decorated flags, fans, parasols, votive gates... on the stage are puppets (made of wood) that perform thanks to the control of people behind the backdrop through a system of poles, strings... Water puppetry performances also cannot lack the supporting sounds of drums and firecrackers...