Vietnam’s 1st UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Performance to open this month
The first-ever UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Performance Festival will be held in the northern province of Phu Tho, featuring art troupes from 13 provinces and cities in the three regions of Vietnam. Troupes from Hanoi will perform ca tru (ceremonial singing) and rituals of Giong Festival of Soc Temple and Phu Dong Temple. Other cultural items to be showcased included don ca tai tu (southern folk music), xoan singing at Phu Tho, and Cham pottery. The festival consists of Intangible Cultural Heritage Performance and Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition. People flock to Hung Temple Festival. Photo: Ngoc Tu/The Hanoi Times According to Ho Dai Dung, Vice Chairman of the Phu Tho People’s Committee, there include performances of xoan singing, Inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2019, in three types: Worship singing, Ritual singing, and Festive singing. In additio...