The Organizing Committee of the 2024 Lotus Village Festival offered flowers and incense to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh.
(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of May 11, before the opening ceremony, the Organizing Committee of the 2024 Lotus Village Festival held a flower and incense offering ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Square, Uncle Ho's Memorial House in the Kim Lien Special National Relic Site and Chung Son Temple - the ancestral temple of President Ho Chi Minh.
Attending the ceremony were comrades: Ho An Phong - Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Bui Dinh Long - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Festival Organizing Committee; leaders of the Department of Culture - Sports and affiliated units; leaders of the Department of Culture - Information; Centers of Culture, Sports and Communication of districts, cities and towns.
President Ho Chi Minh has passed away, but his great career and noble example will live forever with the mountains and rivers of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh's thoughts, morality and style have always been the ideological foundation and compass for all actions, illuminating and guiding the Vietnamese revolution from one victory to another.
The 2024 Sen Village Festival will be organized at the provincial level, with the following events: Incense offering ceremony at Uncle Ho's shrine and flower offering in front of Uncle Ho's statue in Ho Chi Minh Square, Vinh City and a parade to Uncle Ho's hometown; Flower and incense offering ceremony at Uncle Ho's memorial house at Kim Lien National Special Relic Site and Chung Son Temple - the ancestral temple of President Ho Chi Minh.
The festival includes activities: Cavalry performance, trumpet music, play performance about Uncle Ho; Sen Village Singing Festival in Nghe An province; Volleyball tournament and Traditional martial arts tournament; Street performance "Lotus blooming season home"; organizing folk games associated with Uncle Ho's childhood activities; Art program "From Sen Village to Ho Chi Minh City".
This year's festival has an additional Marathon "Journey to Lotus Village" hosted by Win Vietnam Sports Company Limited and Vietnamnet Newspaper, in coordination with the Department of Culture and Sports, and related departments and branches.
In 2024, the Sen Village Festival will be held for the 42nd time. This is an important political and cultural activity, expressing the gratitude and respect of the people for President Ho Chi Minh; propagating and educating Ho Chi Minh's ideology; introducing and promoting the culture of Sen Village, Nghe An homeland to friends and domestic and foreign tourists about the image of a dynamic, friendly land, always open to opportunities for cooperation and development.
In the sacred atmosphere, at the worship room, Uncle Ho's Statue in Ho Chi Minh Square, Vinh City; Uncle Ho's Memorial House in Kim Lien National Special Relic Site, the leaders of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Nghe An Province and the Organizing Committee, together with the delegates respectfully offered flowers, incense, reported their achievements, commemorated, expressed their infinite gratitude and deep respect for President Ho Chi Minh; respectfully commemorated his ancestors at Chung Son Temple.