At the opening ceremony (Photo: VNA) Speakingat the opening ceremony of the 5th Peach Blossom Festival on January 15 night,standing vice chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and head of theorganising committee of the festival, Duong Xuan Huyen, highlighted the meaningof the annual event.
Hesaid that over the years, the peach blossom festival has become a typical,outstanding and original cultural activity and tourism product, attracting alarge number of domestic and foreign visitors who come to admire the beauty ofpeach blossoms in every spring and on the occasion of Tet.
Healso emphasised that the activities in the festival, together with theaffection of the Lang Son people, will offer visitors with many attractive and unforgettableexperiences.
“Theimage and brand of peach blossoms in Lang Son land will really become anostalgic and earnest invitation for visitors to return,” he added.
Thenatural condition of the province is perfect for many beautiful, unique andrare peach varieties like bell peach blossom or white peach blossom. Eachspring, the whole land is covered with blooming peach trees that are grownaplenty across villages, hillsides and on street corners. It is also amust-visited destination for tourists when Tet approaches and those who seekbeautiful peach blossom branches to decorate their houses.
Aimingto preserve and promote the cultural and economic values, as well as honouringindigenous peach trees and peach growers, the People's Committee of Lang Son provinceapproved the project on preserving and developing the value of peach trees onOctober 31, 2018 and held the first peach blossom festival.
Avariety of activities imbued with local culture will take place within theevent, including contests of the most beautiful peach garden and the mostbeautiful peach tree, performances of traditional art forms like sli, lượn orthen singing, lion dance of Tày and Nùng ethnic groups, exhibitions of springbooks and newspapers, introduction of local specialties and dishes of theprovince that have entered the list of Vietnamese top 100 specialties 2022,like Mau Son Wine or pork roast with mắc mật (clausen indica) leaves.
The peach blossom festival will last until February 19./.
VNA
