The Red Flower Festival is considered an indispensable artistic “specialty” of Hai Phong city, attracting many visitors to attend every year.
The Origin of the Red Flower Festival
With more than 9,000 phoenix flowers planted on the streets of the popular corner throughout the city, over the past 40 years, Hai Phong has been fondly called by many people with the dear name “red phoenix flower city”.
Red phoenix flowers all over the streets of Hai Phong when the summer comes
Moreover, the phoenix flower with its distinctive red color is also an endless source of inspiration for how many artists’ souls compose words, verses or paintings for life. For example, the poem “Red Flower Time” by poet Thanh Tung was composed by musician Nguyen Dinh Bang to a song of the same name to tell about the memories with the phoenix flower, which made people’s hearts excited.
Therefore, starting in 2012, Hai Phong decided to organize the Hoa Phuong Do festival on main roads and famous tourist spots, to honor the land, people and aspirations of the city. city, at the same time contributing to promoting tourism of Port origin in particular and the country of Vietnam in general.
The second biggest festival in Hai Phong
In particular, this festival is an annual event held during the phoenix flower blooming season around mid-May, but there is no fixed date, and the theme will also be changed each year to bring a new one. batch, attract tourists.
Interesting spots at the Red Flower Festival
As the second biggest event of the year in Hai Phong city, so before the Hoa Phuong Do festival takes about a week or even a month, all the streets, roads from big to small in the city. was very bustling and bustling by the bright red propaganda banners lined the way. At the same time, the pavement was also cleaned, the two sides of the road were fitted with barriers to ensure the safety of everyone during the crowded festival.
The scene was brilliant before the festival
In addition, strips of lights in blue, red, and yellow colors are also fully hung on the phoenix trees, so that every night when night falls, they glow like a mysterious fairy-tale world.
The Hai Phong Red Phoenix Flower Festival will start with the Carnival parade of famous domestic and domestic art groups in colorful, eye-catching costumes on flower cars, from the streets to the central hall at the theater. large , with a majestic stage with bright lights and giant glowing red phoenix petals.
After that, the singers will perform the song “The City of Red Flowers” while the dancers form phoenix blocks from silk ribbons, fans or bright red litchi flowers, combined with the effect of light and sound, making viewers unable to take their eyes off.
The scene shimmering in the festival
In particular, the highlight of the Hoa Phuong Do traditional festival is the low-level fireworks display for 15 minutes at the opening and at the end of the program, brightening the sky and bringing an atmosphere. As joyful and eager as Tet holidays.
Attractive fireworks display
Not only that, in addition to the majestic entertainment programs, in this festival there are many other interesting activities such as: Dragon boat racing in Hai Phong city extended on Gia river with the participation and the neck of hundreds of thousands of people, performing lion – monk – dragon or performing art installation and bicycle parade on the red phoenix flower routes.
As for art lovers, art exhibitions, photographs, fine arts, books, calligraphy and exchanges with poets, musicians or artists on the theme of phoenix flowers, people and landmarks Hai Phong city will be an extremely attractive activity.
Exhibition of pictures about land and people of Hai Phong
Even the international introduction of Hai Phong Hoa Phuong Do festival is also shown at Hai Phong tourism seminars, showing reality movies about the land and Hai Phong people or exchanging sports activities between embassy officials with sports centers in the city.
Moreover, the festival also has a culinary cultural exchange program in Hai Phong with other countries. So no need to go far, or go to many places, just come here is you can do just one tour food tour super delicious in origin port as well as enjoy the specialties extremely attractive on the world gender already.
Lots of delicious dishes
Revealing, on this holiday, the tourism industry of Hai Phong city also offers a discount from 10 to 40% for services across the city: from hotels, dining to sightseeing tours … There is also a great deal of savings in the special art show while traveling, and nothing better than that.
If you want to discover the unique cultural beauty of Hai Phong Port, you must definitely not miss the Red Flower Festival .
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