Do Re Mi Contest launched for the new year; Writing contest on late musician Trinh Cong Son; Man donates priceless artefacts to museum; Festival pays tribute to earth’s bounty

Kids compete in the popular Do Re Mi Singing Contest.

Audiences will work with the board to select excellent kids for the primary rounds throughout the country.

Details are available at www.doremivn.com.

The contest is sponsored by Viet Nam Television, Multi Media Company and Vinamilk Company.

Writing contest on late musician Trinh Cong Son

The online community www.ttvnol.com has opened a writing competition on the late musician Trinh Cong Son to commemorate the eighth anniversary of his death, on April 1, 2001.

Individuals and organisations at home and abroad can send entries expressing their feelings and opinions about the musician to boxnhactrinh.ttvnol@gmail.com.

An awards ceremony and music show commemorating the musician is on next Friday evening at Vong Xua tea shop, 8 Tran Dai Nghia Street, Ha Noi.

Man donates priceless artefacts to museum

Nong Van Tinh, of Yen Bai, has donated more than 60 millennia-old artefacts to the provincial museum.

The Dao ethnic man gifted ploughshares, mattocks and daggers made during the Dong Son Culture in the fifth to eighth centuries BC.

There are also tools and weapons like spears and swords, utensils like jars and cooking containers, and trinkets like mirrors and gloves.

There is also a trong chau, a drum which looks like a basin with uneven-sized sides.

Chanh Tay Gate at Hue city Royal Palace restored

Chanh Tay Gate, one of the nine main gates of the Royal Palace in Hue City, has been completely restored for total costs of VND5.7 billion (US$326,000), said Phung Phu, director of the Hue Monuments Conservation Centre.

The gate was built in 1829, but was in disrepair due to war and the effects of nature.

The Royal Palace has walls, gates, moats and bastions.

Each gate was arranged with a watch tower to guard the imperial city.

Festival pays tribute to earth’s bounty

A traditional ritual which pays tribute to the earth for providing sustenance has been organised at the Xa Tac Platform in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

The Xa Tac (Soil and Rice) Devotion Ritual features a procession and worship ceremony.

About 120 elders from eight suburban districts and three wards join the ceremony.

Departing from the Ngo Mon (Moon Gate), a group of people playing the roles of the King, his court and soldiers will perform all the steps of the ritual at the Xa Tac Platform.

The ritual was first performed during the Nguyen dynasty more than 100 years ago.

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