Art performance at the opening ceremony (Photo:baoquocte.vn) Bac Giang (VNA) – The Tay Yen Tu (West Yen Tu)Spring Festival and the Culture - Tourism Week 2023 of the northern province ofBac Giang took place at the Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecological tourism complexfrom February 2 – 6.
The events were attended by Member of the Party CentralCommittee, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper, Deputy Head ofthe Party Central Committee's Commission for Information and Education, and Chairman of the VietnamJournalists’ Association Le Quoc Minh, and Secretary of the provincial PartyCommittee Duong Van Thai, and crowds of Buddhist followers and visitors.
In his speech at the opening ceremony on February 2, Vice Chairman of the provincialPeople’s Committee Giang Mai Son said the Tay Yen Tu tourism complex, locatedon the path of propagating the Dharma of the founders of the Truc Lam Yen TuBuddhist sect, holds a special position for developing cultural, spiritual,ecological, and relaxation tourism.
The Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival and the Bac Giang Culture - Tourism Week featured 15 main activities and a wide range of cultural, sport, and tourism events. (Photo: toquoc.vn) Given this, Bac Giang is developing a tourism space andworking with nearby Quang Ninh and Hai Duong provinces to compile a dossierseeking UNESCO recognition of the Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son, Kiep Baclandscape complex as world heritage.
The recognition will help promote tourism as well aseconomic, cultural, and social development in the region, the official noted,Son said.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Dao Cuongrequested Bac Giang to continue to raise public awareness; put culture on parwith economy; coordinate with the ministry to organise the 3rd National TourismConference; mobilise all resources to invest in tourism development; anddevelop new tourism products.
The Tay Yen Tu Spring Festival and the Bac Giang Culture -Tourism Week featured 15 main activities and a wide range of cultural, sport,and tourism events, which will be held in Son Dong, Yen Dung, Luc Nam, and LucNgan districts.
Notably, a procession of the set of woodblocks carved withthe poem “Cu tran lac dao phu” took place on February 2, bringing the set fromVinh Nghiem Pagoda in Yen Dung district to Thuong Pagoda in the Tay Yen Tucomplex.
The woodblocks on “Cu tran lac dao phu”, written in the Nomand Han (Chinese) scripts, are among the Buddhist woodblocks kept at the VinhNghiem Pagoda that were listed as documentary heritage in the Memory of theWorld Programme for the Asia-Pacific region.
The 70km-long procession aimed to honour the ideologicalvalues of the Truc Lam Yen Tu Buddhist sect and re-enact the sect founders’path of propagating the Dharma. It was recognised by the Vietnam RecordsOrganisation (VietKings) as the biggest of its kind held in Buddhist rituals inVietnam./.
