More than 60 clubs participate in Hue Festival 2014 Ornamental Bird Festival

On the morning of April 13, in Hue City, the Hue Cultural Center organized the Ornamental Bird Festival - Hue Festival 2014. With the aim of preserving and enriching traditional cultural beauty, the Festival attracted hundreds of artisans from more than 60 Ornamental Bird Clubs nationwide.

This festival has the participation of more than 600 starlings and white-eyes from more than 60 bird clubs nationwide.

Coming to this year's Festival, there are a total of more than 600 starlings and white-eyes, carefully raised and domesticated by artisans.

More than 600 colorful bird cages attended the Festival.

After the opening ceremony, the "showing off your figure and voice" contest of the birds participating in the Festival began with three rounds of scoring. In each round, the judges will carefully evaluate by listening to the birds' singing and lowering the cages of the eliminated birds.

In the first round, to increase the level of competition, each judge can knock down an unlimited number of cages in 15 minutes, but at least five cages must be eliminated. In the second round, the bird cages on the outside will be brought inside, replacing the eliminated cages. In the ten minutes, each judge will eliminate at least five more bird cages that are not "qualified". The third round will follow the same rules as the second round.

After three qualifying rounds, the organizers expect there to be only about 200 birds left, divided into four groups, to select the Top 40, Top 30, Top 20 and Top 10 rankings. Of these Top 10, the four birds with the strongest singing voices will be carefully selected by the judges for the First, Second, Third and Fourth prizes. The six birds with the weakest "singing voices" will receive the consolation prize and the Top 10 prize.

Unlike previous times, this year, the organizing committee paid special attention to the issue of fairness in the evaluation of the birds' singing voices participating in the Festival. After each round, the judges were only allowed to read the results and remain seated, the cage lowering team would be responsible for lowering the cages. In addition, the organizing committee also arranged for supervisory teams to closely monitor and supervise.

The members of the cage-hanging team are preparing for the bird competition.

According to a member of the Organizing Committee, this is to completely avoid cheating and taking advantage of the "shyness of strangers" of the two types of birds: starlings and white-eyes.

The festival is a community cultural activity, imbued with social character, contributing to preserving and enriching the traditional cultural beauty of bird keeping in Hue in particular and Vietnam in general.

From early morning, thousands of people gathered at Hai Ba Trung High School (Hue City) to watch the Festival.

According to NDĐT