More than 3 weeks until Lunar New Year, but many localities and units in Ha Tinh have planned to organize cultural and sports events to celebrate the Party and the New Year of the Dragon 2024.

A corner of Ky Anh town center has been decorated with many banners and beautiful LED lighting systems.

These days, Ky Anh Town has begun to implement many plans for cultural activities to celebrate the Party and the New Year of the Dragon 2024.

Accordingly, the locality will coordinate to organize the following programs: Charity Tet Giap Thin Spring 2024 (expected to be held on January 20, 2024), Tet Sum Vay - Spring Connecting for Union members in the area (expected to be held on January 22, 2024), Spring Newspaper Festival, photo exhibition, launching of the publication "Ky Anh Town Integration and Development" (expected from January 29 - 31), Countdown Program to Welcome the New Year 2024 and fireworks display on New Year's Eve with the theme "Urban Spring Colors" (expected to take place on the evening of February 9).

In addition, there are many other cultural events in early spring, the highlight of which is the 647th anniversary of the death of Lady Nguyen Thi Bich Chau (1377 - 2024) - opening the local spiritual cultural festival in 2024.

Ms. Ho Minh Hang - Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Ky Anh Town said: "Cultural programs, events and activities aim to bring a joyful atmosphere at the beginning of spring, encouraging people to enter the new year with many new successes. We are coordinating with agencies, organizations and localities to deploy tasks for events and activities to take place on time, ensuring requirements".

The Hai Thuong Lan Ong Festival in 2024 will take place with many exciting cultural activities. Photo: Visitors come to offer incense at the tomb of the great physician Le Huu Trac.

As part of a series of events and activities to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great physician Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac (1724 - 2024), who was recently honored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Huong Son district has planned to organize the Hai Thuong Lan Ong Festival in early spring of Giap Thin 2024.

The festival is expected to be held from February 15 to 24, with many activities such as: opening ceremony, traditional boat racing on Ngan Pho River, Minh Tu mountain cross-country race, incense offering ceremony, procession and memorial service for the 233rd death anniversary of the great physician, national peace and security ceremony, district-wide men's arm wrestling competition, folk games...

Mr. Tran Anh Nam - Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Huong Son district said: "This year's Hai Thuong Lan Ong Festival will be held with many activities invested in both scale and depth. In which, the focus is on spreading the heritage values ​​left by the Great Physician, promoting and attracting people to participate in the festival.

In particular, the procession will focus on traditional forms and rituals by replacing the palanquin carrying the portrait with a palanquin carrying the tablet; the festival activities focus on improving the physical and mental health of the people... We have coordinated with localities to actively carry out preparations for the festival to take place successfully."

The grounds of Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac church have been cleaned and beautified.

In order to create an atmosphere of celebrating the Party and the New Year of the Dragon 2024, other localities such as Ha Tinh City and Duc Tho District have also planned to organize many exciting cultural and sports activities. In particular, Ha Tinh City will coordinate with the Ministry of National Defense to organize fireworks displays, with an expected 500 high-altitude fireworks at Thanh Sen Square on New Year's Eve; organize the Temple of Literature Festival on March 24, 2024 (ie February 15 of the lunar calendar) and many cultural activities in wards and communes...

Thanh Sen Square (Ha Tinh City) has been decorated to welcome the Spring of Giap Thin 2024.

Duc Tho district will organize the 4th Open Club Table Tennis Tournament, scheduled to take place on January 20-21; the traditional boat racing festival on La river, scheduled to take place on February 17...

A highlight in the plan to organize cultural activities of some localities on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year is the art programs to celebrate the Party and celebrate Spring. In particular, the programs of the districts: Thach Ha, Nghi Xuan... will attract the participation of famous artists from all over the country, who are children of Ha Tinh homeland.

Boat racing on La River to celebrate spring 2023. Photo courtesy of Duong Chien.

Notable among them is the art program celebrating the Party and the spring of 2024, organized by Thach Ha district on the evening of January 29, at the outdoor stage of the district's Cultural - Communication Center. The program featured performances by two singers Thanh Quy and Thanh Tai.

In Xuan Hoi commune (Nghi Xuan), through the connection of singer Thanh Tai, on the evening of February 6, a tribute music night called "Singing in the homeland" will take place, with the participation of many artists and singers such as: Meritorious Artist To Nga, Meritorious Artist Tien Lam, Thanh Tai, Thanh Quy, Quynh Anh, Ha Quynh Nhu...

Poster of the music night program "Singing in the homeland" will take place in Xuan Hoi commune (Nghi Xuan) on the evening of the 27th of Tet.

Along with the localities, on this occasion, the Ha Tinh Traditional Arts Theater (NTTT) and the provincial Cultural - Cinema Center also built and practiced many programs to serve the people. In particular, the provincial NTTT Theater built an art program to serve at the meeting, connecting overseas Vietnamese in Ha Tinh with their homeland on the occasion of the traditional New Year; an art performance program at the Huong Tich Pagoda Festival, opening the 2024 tourism year.

The Provincial Cultural - Cinema Center builds a mobile propaganda art program to serve the people, soldiers, and people in remote areas before, during and after the Lunar New Year 2024; an art gala program to celebrate the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2024)...

Implementing the document of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the direction of the province on strengthening leadership and direction in implementing tasks before, during and after the Lunar New Year of Giap Thin in 2024, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Tinh has issued an official dispatch on strengthening the management and organization of cultural, sports, tourism and festival activities to celebrate the Spring of Giap Thin 2024.

In particular, the Department requested the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns across the province to strengthen the implementation of State management of festival activities in the area; direct functional units and local authorities to develop plans to ensure that cultural and sports activities take place safely, civilly and economically... Events take place in accordance with the Party's viewpoints, policies and guidelines in the field of culture and arts. Thereby creating a new atmosphere, new motivation, encouraging and motivating cadres, party members and people of all walks of life to enjoy Tet and welcome spring enthusiastically.

Mr. Tran Xuan Luong

Deputy Director of Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Tinh

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