The festival is one of the activities within the project “preserving and promoting the beautiful cultural values of the ethnic minority groups associated with tourism development”.

The Organizing Board awards Team prizes to the participating delegations at the Festival.

The event gathered more than 150 Tay and Nung artisans, actors, actresses and instrumentalists who are living, studying and working in 5 districts of Son dong, Luc Ngan, Luc Nam, Yen The and Lang Giang. Each delegation has maximum 30 members to perform singing, dancing and instrumental programme.

The performance of Luc Ngan team.

In the end, the Organizing Board awarded 2 excellent prizes, 7 A prizes, 8 B prizes and 8 C prizes and 3 A prizes and 2 B prizes for the entire delegations. The A prizes for the teams of Luc Ngan, Son Dong and Lang Giang districts. Besides, Hoang Thi Son (born in 1951) of Luc Nam delegation was honoured as the oldest actress, Chu Phuong Quynh (born in 2016) in Lang Giang district and Ly Thi Ngoc Nhung (born in 2016) in Luc Ngan district were awarded as the youngest participants.

“Bac Giang- Noong’s hometown” performance of Luc Nam team.

The festival is a good opportunity for the artisans and artists to exchange and share experience in practicing and spreading the values of the arts of Then singing and Tinh gourd lute performance contributing to building and developing the progressive Vietnamese culture imbued with ethnic identities, strengthening the national solidarity block and building an advanced and healthy cultural environment.

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Unique Lau Then ritual of Tay ethnic people

(BGO) – Then practice of the Tay, Nung and Thai in Vietnam" was officially inscribed by UNESCO in the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2019. Bac Giang was among 11 localities housing this form of heritage.

Then singing - special ritual practice of ethnic minority groups

“Then” is an essential ritual practice in the spiritual life of the Tay, Nung, and Thai ethnic minority groups in the north of Vietnam.

Practices of Then receive UNESCO certificate for Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

A ceremony was held in the northern province of Tuyen Quang on September 3 night to receive a UNESCO certificate accrediting Practices of Then by Tay, Nung and Thai ethnic minority groups in Vietnam as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.