The first Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival after the merger
The 2025 Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival is the first typical and unique traditional cultural event of Hai Phong city after the merger. The festival commemorates the 725th anniversary of the death of National Hero Tran Hung Dao, the 583rd anniversary of the death of National Hero, World Cultural Celebrity Nguyen Trai. This is also a cultural activity to successfully celebrate the 1st Hai Phong City Party Congress (term 2025 - 2030).
The 2025 Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival is expected to be held from October 1 to October 12 (ie from the 10th to the 21st of the 8th lunar month). The festival is held on the largest scale ever, with the ceremony and festival activities upgraded but still ensuring solemnity in accordance with traditional rituals. The Chairman of Hai Phong City People's Committee is the Head of the Festival Organizing Committee.
This year's festival will also feature activities to honor the Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son and Kiep Bac Monuments and Scenes Complex recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural Heritage. Through activities at the festival, the city introduces and promotes tourism resources, promotes tourism and trade; orients the construction of Con Son - Kiep Bac Relic Site to become an international tourist area.
Festival highlights
According to the Organizing Committee, the focus of this year's festival will be on October 7 (August 16 of the lunar calendar) including a series of activities: Commemoration of the 583th anniversary of the death of World Cultural Celebrity Nguyen Trai; Commemoration of the 725th anniversary of the death of National Hero Tran Hung Dao, Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival in 2025; Autumn Festival in 2025, celebration, propaganda, and promotion of the Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son and Kiep Bac Relic Complex event recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site; Art program "Hai Phong - Quintessence of the Heritage Region" and the announcement ceremony of the President of the City of the Year.
The rituals and activities of the festival have been upgraded in scale, standardizing rituals worthy of world heritage. In particular, at the Kien Bac relic site, the festival space is expanded from the Kien Bac temple to the Luc Dau river. The art program is staged in a combination of performing arts, singing arts, music and dance arts, circus and 3D mapping-layer mapping visual arts... recreating the glorious feats of the Tran Dynasty's military and people, especially the National Artist of the Imperial family Hung Dao Dai Vuong on the land of Van Kiep. At the same time, propagate and promote the outstanding global values of the 5 component relics of the World Heritage in Tay Hai Phong as well as the typical and typical cultural values of the city.
This year's Culture, Tourism and Trade Promotion Week expands the scale, organizing booths to display, introduce, promote culture, tourism, trade promotion, OCOP products, agricultural products, typical handicrafts, traditional craft villages, and unique cuisine of localities inside and outside the city. The cultural week will also have performances, promotions, and introductions of product making processes for visitors to experience; performances and exchanges of traditional cultural, artistic and folk arts activities to serve the people and visitors.
The city also builds a program to introduce new tourism products under 3 topics: experience tour "A journey to 5 World Heritage destinations", experience tour "Following the footsteps of the three groups of Truc Lam", tour "Explore Con Son Heritage, Kiep Bac"...
In addition, promoting the application of digital technology in promoting festivals, making festivals not only an event of cultural and religious activities of the people, but also a typical tourism product, contributing to enhancing the position and cultural brand of Hai Phong in the new period.
