Hoi An leaders receive certificate recognising annual Nguyen Tieu Festival as National Intangible Heritage (Photo: VNA)The festival celebrates the full moon of the first lunar month of the year.
The city’s Centre for Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation confirmedthe certificate was handed over on February 5, marking the fifth nationalintangible heritage after Thanh Chau bird's nest, Thanh Ha Pottery village,carpentry of Kim Bong village and Tra Que vegetable garden.
The centre said the festival was a major event in a series of cultural andritual activities among local people held during the first lunar month.
Local people often prepare for the festival from the seventh day of the monthwith ancestor worship and praying for peace at the communal houses of Cam Pho, OngVoi, Japanese Bridge, Ong and Ba Pagoda and Minh Huong commune house, as wellas the Fujian and Jiao Zhou clubs.
A night parade will take place in the Old Quarter with lanterns and a poetrecital at Cam Pho communal house as well as folk games at Kazik Park onFebruary 4-6.
Pagodas and communal houses will be open on two days and nights of the 15 and16 lunar days of January (which fall on February 5-6 this year).
Annual Nguyen Tieu Festival recognised as National Intangible Heritage (Photo: VNA)Every family wishes for a peaceful year with vegetarian food, rice, salt, wine,aloeswood, votive ancestral tablets and paper.
In boosting tourism promotion, Hoi An city has launched an online portal – Hoi Aninnovation city – on metaverse and bizverse showing the UNESCO-recognised Hoi Anin cutting-edge 360 virtual reality technology.
It will help visitors explore destinations of the world heritage site throughvirtual reality technology before travelling to Hoi An.
The Old Quarter of Hoi An was recognised as a world heritage by UNESCO in 1999along with My Son Sanctuary, and Hoi An-Cham Islands world biosphere reserve in2009./.
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