On 10.2, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the province and Chau Doc City met the plan to organize the Ceremony to receive the UNESCO to enroll in the Mount Sam Mountain Festival on the list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
At the meeting, the ceremony of receiving the title of UNESCO will be held on the occasion of the opening ceremony of Ba Chua Ba Mount Sam Festival in 2025.
Accordingly, it is expected to be held on March 19, 2025 (on the 20th of the lunar calendar), at the National Tourist Area of Nui Sam, Nui Sam Ward, Chau Doc City. It is expected that the ceremony will take place from 90 to 120 minutes with many cultural and artistic activities staged and elaborately prepared, worthy of the stature of the festival is registered as the intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
The festival of Ba Chua Sam Mountain is maintained every year according to traditional rituals: Opening festival; Promote the procession of her statue from the top of Sam mountain to the temple; Bathing her; Sometimes the spirit of voice of Mr. Ngoc Hau and the two wives; Tuc Yet; Building adoration; Right sacrifices and red.
This is considered a festival with a culture of residents of the Southwest region, showing the identity and continuity of the Kinh community in the process of continuing cultural exchange with the community of 4 ethnic groups together. Living: Kinh, Flowers, Khmer, Cham.
As the Labor has reported, the festival of Ba Chua Sam Mount Sam was registered by UNESCO on the list of representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity at 9:47 on 4.12.2024 local hours (19h47 Hanoi time) At the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of the 2003 Convention on the protection of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage in Paraguay.
