Visit the village of Vietnamese ethnic groups to experience traditional folk culture

In order to create a useful summer playground for children with activities that are close and closely related to the daily lives of ethnic minorities introduced by the cultural subject itself, from July 1-31 at the Vietnam Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village (Doai Phuong commune, Hanoi), July activities will take place with the theme "Going to the Village to experience traditional culture."

This playground also promotes the role of responsibility to the community, aiming to introduce the culture and customs of the people, along with experiential activities at the "common home" of the community of 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups.

Accordingly, more than 100 people of 16 ethnic groups (Nung, Tay, Mong, Dao, Muong, Lao, Thai, Kho Mu, Ta Oi, Ba Na, Xo Dang, Gia Rai, Co Tu, Raglai, E De, Khmer) with the participation of 11 localities where people are active daily in the Village will participate in the July event.

Ethnic minorities will introduce traditional culture with subjects that are active daily in the Village, with the highlight being that visitors will learn about architecture, costumes, folk songs and dances, rituals, festivals... and types of performances, musical instruments, and folk games.

Each village is an experiential activity, cultural subjects interact with visitors in the process of creating products for players to bring home gifts. During that process, visitors are introduced to cultural life, stories associated with ethnic communities so that children can better understand the traditional values of ethnic groups as well aseducate love for the homeland, the desire to learn and experience.

On the morning of April 28, 2025, in Hanoi , Ms. Le Thi Bich Tran, wife of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Ms. Ishiba Yoshiko, wife of the Japanese Prime Minister visited the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism and danced xoè with ethnic people in the North. (Photo: VNA)

In particular, on weekends, the Khmer people will hold a Rain Bathing Robe Offering Ceremony (also known as the Rains-Entering Ceremony). This is a ritual that has existed since the time of the Buddha, before monks enter the three-month rainy season retreat, they are allowed to receive a "Rain Bathing Robe" to use during their stay.

On this holiday, Buddhist families gather at the pagoda to offer the monks necessary items and the indispensable offering is the large candles that Buddhists bring to the pagoda to light continuously for 3 months of entering the rainy season. This day marks the beginning of the rainy season at a pagoda. Buddhists at the Khmer pagoda prepare to offer the necessary items to the monks during the rainy season, hoping for a peaceful rainy season.

Besides, there are activities such as: The folk song and dance program "Echoes of the origin" of the ethnic people is operating daily in the Village; introducing and teaching traditional musical instruments of ethnic groups (especially for villages with strengths in performing traditional musical instruments such as Ba, Xo Dang, Tay...).

According to information from the organizers, traditional cultural experience activities are also organized enthusiastically with folk games: playing mandarin squares, checkers, bamboo puppets... in indoor spaces; walking on stilts, dancing on bamboo poles, swinging, seesaw... in outdoor spaces. Through some simple games, students not only experience, learn, explore nature and animals, contributing to training thinking skills, creativity, dexterity but also strengthening friendship and family love./.

(Vietnam+)

Source: https://www.vietnamplus.vn/ve-lang-cac-dan-toc-viet-nam-trai-nghiem-van-hoa-truyen-thong-dan-gian-post1047375.vnp