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This year's Giong Festival at Phu Dong Temple will be held over five days, from May 6th to 10th, at the Phu Dong Temple National Special Monument site and nearby tourist destinations.
According to the Organizing Committee, within the framework of the Giong Festival and Phu Dong Tourism Week 2022, many vibrant cultural activities will take place, such as: the opening of the rural market at Phu Dong Green Park; the first Phu Dong Paper Flower Festival; the opening of shopping and dining establishments meeting standards for serving tourists; the opening of OCOP (One Commune One Product) booths; the launch of the Phu Dong Giong Festival Tourism Cooperative; experiencing sightseeing programs at Phu Dong Green Park ecological area; Quan Ho folk singing at the puppet theater; performances of traditional art forms such as Quan Ho, Cheo singing, and Tuong singing; along with other tourism promotion and development programs.
Many unique cultural activities will take place within the framework of this year's festival.
At the opening ceremony of the Festival (held on the evening of May 6th), the Phu Dong Temple historical site also received the decision recognizing it as a "Phu Dong Tourist Destination".
The Phu Dong tourist area encompasses the entire Phu Dong commune, covering an area of 1,182 hectares, and possesses numerous resources for tourism development, such as the Phu Dong bougainvillea-growing village and the Green Park complex of historical and cultural relics. Among these, the Giong Temple complex has been recognized as a special national historical site.
Giong Festival at Phu Dong Temple
In addition to the welcoming art program, Gia Lam district also officially launched the Gia Lam tourism e-portal at the following address:https://dulichgialam.com/The Gia Lam tourism app marks a positive transformation for Gia Lam tourism in applying technology to the development, management, and promotion of local tourism to a wider audience of people and tourists.
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The Gióng Festival at Phù Đổng Temple is a Battle Festival, initiated and organized by King Lý Công Uẩn during the Lý Dynasty; it takes place from the 7th to the 9th of April in the lunar calendar every year to reenact the heroic battles of Saint Gióng - the son of Phù Đổng village - against foreign invaders from the North.
The festival has been preserved and passed down essentially intact from generation to generation by the people of Phu Dong; it is a folk theater, taking place in a vast space with thousands of main roles played by the people; aiming to educate about the patriotic traditions, national pride, and love of peace of the Vietnamese people.
With its immense contributions, in 2010, the Giong Festival at Phu Dong Temple (Gia Lam district), along with the Giong Festival at Soc Temple (Soc Son district), was inscribed by UNESCO as a Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
