Long Tong festival opens in Thai Nguyen province

The Long Tong (Starting a new crop season) festival opened on the ninth and the 10th day of the first lunar month in Dinh Hoa Safety Area (ATK Dinh Hoa), Thai Nguyen province.
The festival aimed to pray for bumper crops. Cultural activities such as a spring camping, a photo exhibition, and a banh giay (a kind of rice cake) making competition were held during this year's festival. These various traditional cultural activities and folk games in the festival also attracted scores of tourists.

The PANO would like introduce several photos of the festival.

Traditional bumper-crop praying ceremony during the Long Tong (starting a new crop season) festival

Local people and tourists excited to participate in “con” (cloth ball) throwing

Ploughing festival to pray for bumper crops

Source: Song Anh, qdnd

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