Spectacular Cultural Performances at Hue Festival 2010

 

The 6th Hue Festival 2010 themed “Cultural Heritage with Integration and Development”, once again, impressively honors cultural heritage of the city with hundreds of exceptional cultural and tourist festivities take place during June 5-13, 2010. This year festival is a grant and spectacular event to showcase the unique cultural values of Vietnam and Hue ancient capital, especially Hue royal arts and other exotic art performances from different Vietnamese sub-cultures.

Nam Giao Offering Ritual

The Nam Giao Offering Ritual, one of the main featured festivities this year, took place at 7:45 pm on June 9. From 2004, the ritual has in part restored for each time the festival was organized. Particularly, this year, the ceremonial process was precisely restored as it was in the feudal era of Vietnam. The ritual included two main activities, the ceremony to welcome King from royal palace to the offering ritual and the ritual at Nam Giao. As a dedication toward the millennium anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi, 1,000 artists, actors and the public worn costumes with flags on hand contribute to the festivity, 1,000 lanterns was lighted and 1,000 white lotus was respectfully offered. Specially, 160 notables from eight villages represented historical cultural values of Thua Thien Hue in particular and Vietnam in general, performed the ritual at eight altars located at Phuong Dan (the second floor of Nam Giao Ritual).

The thorough preparation from historical documents to costumes and formalities along with the seriousness and expressiveness of talented performers brought audiences back to one of the traditional rites under the Nguyen dynasty featured the important of supernatural powers to desired prosperity and peace of the nation.

Oriental Night Shows

The Oriental Night Show, one of the most expected programs at this year event, took place on June 7,8,10,11 and 12 evenings at Dien Thai Hoa (Thai Hoa Palace) was a show to manifest the splendid beauty of traditional and unique costumes of Asian countries. Audiences had a memorable time to blend themselves in Imperial fashions featured particular Oriental ethnic cultural values of Japan, India, Laos, Korea, Mongolia, Thailand, China and the host country Vietnam. Cultural values were again highlighted at the festival.

The Breath of Water – a perfect beauty

It was the first time in history of Hue Festival, the Breath of Water showcase performed on the submerged stage at the Tinh Tam Lake. As a far-reaching meaning of this excellence performance, the show found its way to recall historical memory. Thousands of audiences presented at the show eyed the great combination of the three UNESCO intangible heritage values – Ca tru, Quan ho and Hue’s Nha Nhac (Royal music) – throughout attractive and logical construct of every single performances. In a free space, the rhythm of music was a breath of water and the representation of different Vietnamese sub-cultures mix in dances and sings was a perfect flow of the program. The unique of submerged stage’s design, the art of sounds and lights were well-supported to deliver a significant success exceed expectation of the very first showcase. Undoubtedly, the new Breath of Water art performance was a very interesting program and a breakthrough of Hue Festival 2010. It hopes to bring tourists close to Vietnamese culture, open the curiosity and discovery of Hue cultural values for those who ever visit the place.

The Hue Festival 2010 is on the last days of festivities. On the occasion of very last few evenings, many special cultural programs continue to imbue the unique of cultural characteristics of Vietnam to international friends.