Spring festival Thăng Long-Hà Nội opens
February 20, 2010 3:15 PM GMT+7
VGP – A solemn spring festival imbued with national identities was opened in Hà Nội this morning in order to honor Việt Nam’s thousand-year-old capital city.
The festival was
kick-started with an incense-offering ritual in commemoration of Emperor Lý Thái
Tổ who set up the imperial capital in Thăng Long (Hà Nội now) in 1010.
A procession
at the New Spring Festival of Thăng Long-Hà Nội, February 20, 2010 – Photo:
VGP/Mai Hồng
Many
art performances were carried out to showcase the long-standing civilization of
the Vietnamese nation and Thăng Long-Hà Nội as well.
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| A performance of drum-players at the New Spring Festival of Thăng Long-Hà Nội, February 20, 2010 – Photo: VGP/Mai Hồng |
The festival, with many traditional
folk festivities and cultural, sport and tourist activities, will be organized
in all districts of Hà Nội in the first quarter.
By Phương Hạnh
