Artisans from Gia Lai province introduced to visitors its cultural characteristics through several art activities including Gong performance, folk singing, and dancing, brocade weaving, among others.

A gong performance of ethnic people from Gia Lai province.

Besides, visitors also had a chance to experience Gia Lai’s culture space through famous produces.

Nguyen Duc Hoang, Deputy Chairman of Gia Lai province’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology has two special areas, including commune house of Bana ethnic group, and sepulcher of the Gia Lai people, along with other activities such as new rice festival of J’Rai people and new communal house of Bana people.

Children enjoy the lion dance at the festival.

On the occasion, young visitors also had a chance to make folk toys of the Mid-Autumn festival such as star-shaped lanterns.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival

The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Hanoi in cooperation with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Gia Lai province will hold its annual Mid-Autumn Festival themed “Colors of Gia Lai Culture” on September 7 and 8 in the grounds of the museum.

Northern village making masks and drums for Mid Autumn Festival

Ong Hao Village is awash with colors and the smells of paint and paper mâché as villagers make masks and drums for children.

Mekong Delta expects 150,000 more tonnes from summer-autumn rice crop

This summer-autumn crop, the Mekong Delta – Vietnam’s biggest rice granary – expects to harvest 150,000 tonnes of paddy more than last year, according to an official from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

World’s artists to perform at HCM City Autumn Melody concert

The 2019 Autumn Melody will be held in Ho Chi Minh City from August 17 to 25.

Summer-autumn rice yield increases in southern region

The southern region expects to harvest an average of 5.66 tonnes of paddy per hectare in the current summer-autumn crop, 139 kilogrammes more than last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Plant Cultivation Department.

Source: VNA