On January 20, President Tran Dai Quang, his wife and a delegation of overseas Vietnamese offered incense to the Hung Kings at the Hung Kings Memorial Area - National Historical and Cultural Park (District 9, Ho Chi Minh City).
This is an activity under the program "Spring Homeland 2017" for overseas Vietnamese on the occasion of returning to their homeland to celebrate the Spring of Dinh Dau 2017, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City.
At exactly 1:45 p.m. on January 20 (December 23), the President and more than 50 outstanding overseas Vietnamese from all over the world visited the Hung Kings Memorial in Ho Chi Minh City, offered incense to the Hung Kings, and commemorated the contributions of our ancestors in building the country.
The program also aims to strengthen the relationship between Vietnamese people in the country as well as Vietnamese people living and working around the world.
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| Overseas Vietnamese were delighted to meet and visit the memorial site of the Hung Kings, the ancestors who built the country, with the President. |
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| Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang happily chatted with Dr. Tran Hoang Minh (American nationality), who studied at the University of Houston (USA) and graduated from the University of Queensland (Australia), and chose to return to Vietnam to work at Go Vap Hospital (Ho Chi Minh City). |
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| More than 50 outstanding overseas Vietnamese joined President Tran Dai Quang to offer incense to the Hung Kings. |
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| President Tran Dai Quang and overseas Vietnamese enter Dai Hung Bao Dien to offer incense. |
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| The President, his wife, central and Ho Chi Minh City leaders and overseas Vietnamese offer incense |
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| Burn incense for our ancestors who built the country. |
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| The incense offering ceremony was performed solemnly and respectfully. |
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| The President led a delegation to visit valuable historical artifacts from the time of the Hung Kings, which are displayed at the memorial site. |
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| Visit the exhibition area of sovereignty rocks taken from the islands in Truong Sa and Hoang Sa |
After the incense and flower offering ceremony to the Hung Kings, President Tran Dai Quang and overseas Vietnamese will offer incense to President Ho Chi Minh and participate in the traditional carp release ceremony into the Saigon River.
On the afternoon of January 20, the President will meet with prominent overseas Vietnamese. In the evening of the same day, the President will meet with a large number of overseas Vietnamese returning home to celebrate Tet, wish them a happy new year and beat the drum to open the Spring Festival in the art performance program “Spring Homeland 2017” with the theme “City named after Uncle Ho - Shining Aspiration”.
According to Dan Tri
