Opening Ceremony of the 17th Vac Village Festival, 2016

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of March 16, at the Lang Vac archaeological site in Nghia Hoa commune, the Party Committee and People's Committee of Thai Hoa town held the opening ceremony of the 17th Lang Vac festival in 2016.

Attending the festival were representatives of leaders of some provincial departments, neighboring districts, leaders of the Town and ethnic people in Phu Quy area.

Carrying the bronze drum and bronze cauldron from the festival site to Lang Vac Temple.

Vac Village is an archaeological site discovered and excavated by archaeologists in 1972, 1973, 1980, 1981, 1990 with a scale of 20,000 m², excavation and exploration area of ​​nearly 1000m², in Nghia Hoa commune.

Visitors learn about the artifacts after excavations still preserved at Lang Vac Temple Area.

Vac Village is both a residential area and a burial site with hundreds of tombs discovered. During three explorations and excavations, nearly 700 artifacts of stone, bronze, and glass were discovered, including bronze. To date, the number of artifacts has increased to 6,000.

Comrade Le Tien Tri, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Town Party Committee, beat the drum to open the 2016 Vac Village Festival.

According to the collection of artifacts, the Lang Vac site has the characteristics of Son Vi culture and continues to the Dong Son culture period. Among the bronze artifacts recovered in Lang Vac, the most notable are 5 bronze drums and thousands of artifacts such as: bronze axes, glass jewelry, human statues, elephant statues, horses...

Because of these great archaeological values, the Lang Vac archaeological site has been ranked as a national monument by the Ministry of Culture.

Art performance at the opening ceremony of Vac Village Festival 2016.

A large number of people attended the 2016 Vac Village Festival.

The festival consists of two parts: the ceremony opens with the traditional beauty of the procession of the nine-handled cauldron and the worship ceremony at the Vac village temple to pray for national peace and prosperity, favorable weather, and bountiful crops.

The festival includes folk games, gongs, tug of war, throwing balls, card chess, pushing sticks, interspersed with new games to increase the diversity of the festival such as: art competitions, beauty pageants, cuisine, volleyball, etc. imbued with national cultural identity, attracting a large number of people and ethnic minorities to participate.

Calligraphy at the Festival attracted attention from the people.

After 16 times of organization, Lang Vac Festival has become a beautiful cultural feature. This is also an opportunity for the people of Phu Quy and tourists from all over to return to their spiritual roots, to the Lac Hong race, to enjoy spring festivals and satisfy the need to enjoy the cultural values ​​left by our ancestors.

The first folk game at the Festival.

The festival is also an opportunity for ethnic people in Phu Quy to gather, demonstrate the spirit of community solidarity, open their hearts and return to their roots, educate awareness of protecting and preserving relics, conserving and promoting traditional cultural and historical values, thereby building trust and pride in their homeland.

Pole pushing competition at the festival

Mixed male and female tug of war at the Festival.

This year, Vac Village Festival takes place from March 15 to 17, 2013 (ie February 7, 8, 9, Binh Than year).

Huu Nghia