There are still many "errors" in festival activities.

Missing the point

Pu Nha Thau Temple Festival in Ky Son District has long been considered a typical festival of the Western Nghe An region. For generations,The festival is considered a place for people to express their spirit and identity through activities in both the ceremony and the festival.. Every year, the Pu Nha Thau Temple Festival is always eagerly awaited by local and foreign people. In 2019, after being restored and embellished, the landscape in the temple area was decorated more spacious and beautiful, convenient for visitors to attend the festival. Like previous years, the rituals of the ceremony such as the proclamation ceremony, the procession ceremony, the buffalo sacrifice ceremony, the great sacrifice... were all carried out relatively methodically from the procession of the palanquin and the tablet to the buffalo return for the sacrifice.

This year, the festival at Pu Nha Thau Temple Festival has many changes such as: Reducing the number of camps of some units, adding the part of drinking rice wine and lighting a campfire in the beauty pageant night... However, these activities are not in the script. According to Ms. Vi Thi Quyen - Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ky Son district, these are just fun activities to help people connect more. However, these additions and subtractions do not make the festival more attractive because what people and tourists from all over the world want and wait for is to be able to transform and participate in the main parts of the festival.

The festival consists of three main parts: the ceremony, the sports and cultural performance, and the beauty pageant. In particular, for the festival, people are not enthusiastic about the games of to mac loc, crossbow shooting, and con throwing; nor are they interested in the camping part because every year the scenarios are boring, but it takes a lot of effort and time to prepare. "The local product fair in particular is highly expected by the Organizing Committee because most of the communes register for tangible cultural products such as bags, scarves, and brocade skirts of the Mong, Thai, Kho Mu, and Lao people... However, there are still many shortcomings in the management and planning of the fair area, so the feedback is not positive," said Ms. Vi Thi Quyen.