Vinh City - Bustling New Year's Eve Festival of the Year of the Dragon 2012

(Baonghean.vn) -At this sacred moment of transition from the old year to the new year, everyone, no matter where they are or what they are doing, feels elated with many hopes for a new year of good health, prosperity and success.

Thanh Vinh - New Year's Eve, on many main streets such as Nguyen Trai, Le Loi, Quang Trung, Phan Dinh Phung, Lenin, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Truong Thi, Le Mao, Ho Tung Mau..., the lighting system is decorated with many colorful lights, creating more sparkle and brilliance for New Year's Eve and warming the hearts of spring travelers in the chilly spring weather.

At 8:00 p.m., it was drizzling in Vinh City, but streams of people from all over the streets still flocked to the city center to enjoy spring and participate in street festival activities - organized for the first time by the Vinh City People's Committee in coordination with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Nghe An. With the main stage at the intersection of Truong Thi and Ho Tung Mau streets, lion dances, dragon dances, roller skating, hip hop dances, and youth rhythm performances... created a bustling and exciting atmosphere for the street festival on New Year's Eve, exciting the hearts of those who participated in spring festivals tonight.

Going out on New Year's Eve is not only a hobby of young people but also attracts people from all walks of life, from the elderly to teenagers and children. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Binh, in Hung Dung ward, shared: "In recent years, on the last day of the old year, after the New Year's Eve meal, our family prepares the New Year's Eve offerings to go out on spring. Going out on New Year's Eve this year is very interesting, bustling, exciting, promising a new year full of joy and happiness."

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee beat the drum to open the New Year's Eve party of the Year of the Dragon 2012.



Comrade Nguyen Trung Chau - Vice Chairman of Vinh City People's Committee read the opening speech of the New Year's Eve festival.



Opening performance.



Performance program of Nghe An Folk Song Troupe.



Lion dance performance.







The performances of rhythmic gymnastics, roller skating, and hip hop dance attracted many viewers.

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A large number of people from all walks of life watched the program in the rain.



Foreign visitors also enthusiastically followed the festival program.







Fireworks at Ho Chi Minh Square.



Crowds of people go to see fireworks on New Year's Eve.

Leaving the street festival space, right at Ho Chi Minh Square - the destination of many people in the city and neighboring localities on New Year's Eve in recent years is also crowded and bustling. Enjoying the sweet melodies of spring, the bustling New Year, many songs and dances praising the Party, praising President Ho Chi Minh, praising the country, the homeland's renewal at the moment when the earth and sky and people's hearts are entering spring, everyone is happy and impressed by a meaningful spring gift in spiritual life performed by the Center for Preservation and Promotion of Nghe An Folk Heritage and the Huong Sen Song and Dance Troupe.

It was past 11pm in Vinh City, spring was coming and the weather was getting colder, the spring rain was getting heavier. It seemed that not many people present at Ho Chi Minh Square were concerned, they all lingered to wait for the sacred New Year's Eve moment in the sacred space under Uncle Ho's Monument, with good wishes for a new year with new victories, a new path of development. The New Year's Eve Festival of the Year of the Dragon 2012 ended in the bustling sound of spring, in a colorful fireworks display, like a spring wish for Uncle Ho's beloved homeland, a new year full of youthful energy, and comprehensive victory on the path of innovation.

Minh Chi -Photo: Sy Minh