Expect a civilized, safe and impressive festival season

Attractive Spring Festivals

The 2025 holiday season has begunwith Dong Da Mound Spring Festival - Commemorating the 236th anniversary of Emperor Quang Trung's great defeat of the Qing army, Huong Pagoda Festival (My Duc - Hanoi), Bai Dinh Pagoda Festival (Ninh Binh), Yen Tu Festival (Quang Ninh), Huong Tich Festival (Ha Tinh), Tam Chuc Spring Festival (Ha Nam) in 2025... with the theme "Sacred Convergence".

Along with that are folk and historical festivals such as the Gióng Festival (Hanoi), Bà Chúa Kho Temple Festival (Bắc Ninh), Đông Cương Temple Festival (Yên Bái)... Festival activities associated with the World Intangible Cultural Heritage "Practice of worshipping the Mother Goddesses of the Three Palaces and Four Palaces of the Vietnamese people" taking place in many localities such as the Liễu Hạnh Mother Goddess Temple system (Phu Giay Festival - Nam Định), Ông Hoàng Mười Temple (Nghe An, Ha Tinh), Ông Hoàng Bảy Temple (Lao Cai)... also attract a lot of pilgrims.

In the South, the Ba Den Mountain Festival with the theme "Tay Ninh Fragrance 2025" has opened; in the Central region, there is the "Ancient Capital Spring" Festival, opening a series of events in the National Tourism Year and Hue Festival 2025.

However, the most bustling, attracting millions of tourists and Buddhist pilgrims in the early days of Spring in the Northern provinces is still Hanoi - where the Huong Pagoda Festival takes place in 2025 with the theme "Huong Pagoda Festival - a tourist destination, culture, and Vietnamese traditions". Opening from January 6, the Huong Pagoda Festival will take place for 3 months until the end of March 6 of the lunar calendar... Immediately after the opening, crowds of people flocked to Huong Pagoda on the roads to Yen Stream, showing the attractiveness of this Buddhist scenic area.

This year's Yen Tu Spring Festival opens on January 10 (February 7, 2025) in Uong Bi city and will last for the first 3 months of the year. It is expected to welcome millions of Buddhists, people, and tourists to Yen Tu to attend the festival to worship, pay respect, and express gratitude to King Tran Nhan Tong and his predecessors who founded and developed the Truc Lam - Yen Tu Zen sect. At the same time, experience pilgrimage activities, learn about the cultural, religious, historical, and scenic values ​​in the land with so many heritages and historical relics associated with the Tran Dynasty such as Uong Bi, Dong Trieu, Ha Long - Cua Ong - Bach Dang... Tran Temple Festival (Nam Dinh - Thai Binh)... Along with that, Bai Dinh and Tam Chuc Pagoda Festivals... also strongly attract visitors and worshipers from all over the northern provinces.

Festival activities in our country take place all year round, but the most are still in Spring. Up to this point, despite the large number of visitors, the festivals have hardly experienced the phenomenon of jostling, pushing, fighting over gifts... like in previous years. Many festivals have focused on innovation, creating attractive destinations for tourists based on the foundation of traditional cultural values.

Before the festival season, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism also issued a document requesting localities to recommend measures to organize traditional festivals in accordance with their true nature, historical and cultural significance, and in accordance with good customs and traditions; eliminating or replacing customs that are no longer suitable to the trend of integration and development.

At the recent regular Government meeting in January 2025, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to step up propaganda and mobilization work, raise awareness and responsibility of all levels, sectors, localities, people and tourists, especially for cadres, civil servants and public employees to strictly implement legal regulations on organizing and participating in festivals, ensuring safety, health, savings, practicing civilized lifestyle, in accordance with the cultural traditions of the nation; absolutely not organizing and participating in widespread and wasteful festivals. Especially taking advantage of festivals to spread superstitions for profit...

Nghe An festivals attract tourists

As a link between the two cultural regions of the Northern Midlands - Delta and the Central region, Nghe An - Ha Tinh attracts a large number of tourists to many historical relics, famous cultural and spiritual tourist attractions to offer prayers for luck and peace, such as the Temple of King Quang Trung in Dung Quyet Mountain, Kim Lien National Special Relic Site, Dai Tue Pagoda (Nam Dan)... The system of Ong Hoang Muoi temples in Nghe An and Ha Tinh are also spiritual tourist attractions that attract thousands of visitors every day. Not only people in the province, but also many tourists from Thanh Hoa, Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong... visit and offer prayers for a favorable new year and abundant fortune.

With an age of nearly 1,000 years, Con Temple in Hoang Mai town is considered the "First spiritual temple" of Nghe An, one of the spiritual tourist destinations that attracts visitors from near and far to visit and pray for peace. In addition, there are also Chin Gian Temple, Nguyen Xi Temple, Ca Temple, Qua Son Temple... which are also destinations that attract people and tourists to visit and worship.

In the first days of Spring At Ty 2025, the festive atmosphere filled famous spiritual tourist attractions in Nghe An, attracting tens of thousands of tourists from all over to visit, worship, pray for peace, and hope for a new year of peace, luck, and prosperity.

According to the Nghe An Department of Tourism, during the 9-day holiday (from December 26, 2018 to the 5th of the 2018 Lunar New Year), the whole province welcomed about 430,000 visitors, of which 138,000 were overnight guests; total tourism revenue was estimated at 479 billion VND.

Nghe An cultural sector is strengthening propaganda, guidance, organization, inspection and examination activities to prevent and strictly and promptly handle violations of security, fire prevention and fighting, food safety and hygiene, and implementing civilized lifestyles during festivals, associated with protecting relics and scenic spots to ensure absolute safety for festival participants, so that this year's festival season can truly take place in a civilized, safe and impressive manner; preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, contributing to satisfying the cultural and spiritual needs of people in the province./.