In the space of the Tet flower street by the Han River, in front of the Da Nang Museum, the Golden Horse mascot "Kim Ma Hop Nhat" crafted by famous artisan Dinh Van Tam, appears as a special visual highlight of Binh Ngo Spring 2026.
The unique and distinctive point of this mascot is not only in its size or brilliant yellow color, but also in its shaping structure. The horse shape is composed from the names of 94 communes, wards and Hoang Sa special zone after arranging administrative units.
Each place name is a "piece of text", small when standing alone, but when connected, it has created a strong, cohesive and vibrant shape.
This is an intuitive, easy-to-understand but powerful metaphor for the process of arranging the organizational structure and development space of the city.
From this "Kim Ma Hop Nhat" mascot, it can be seen that the "unification" of administrative units is not a mechanical addition or erasure of the unique, but a crystallization.
Each place name, name is still present, still has a position in the overall, just like how each community, each land contributes to the general appearance of Da Nang today.
From this perspective, Da Nang's Golden Horse Tet mascot "Kim Ma Hop Nhat" has gone beyond its decorative role, becoming an aspiration, a soft declaration of development thinking, that change to be stronger, but not lose identity.
In Eastern culture, horses are associated with speed, endurance and fighting spirit. Placing "Kim Ma Hop Nhat" in the center of the Tet flower street, by the Han River - the iconic landscape axis of the city, it can be seen that Da Nang is affirming its determination to enter a new stage with faster pace, but with orientation and control.
The strong but flexible horse posture evokes a feeling of continuous, non-stop movement, very close to the spirit of "dare to think, dare to do" which has become the brand of this city.
Notably, besides "Kim Ma Hop Nhat", there is also the appearance of the mascot machine horse "Kim Ma 4.0" in the southern area, the section at the tail of Dragon Bridge.
This parallelism creates an interesting contrast, when one side is a horse of handmade letters, rich in culture and memories; the other side is a machine horse, representing technology, innovation and the future.
These two images are not opposite, but complementary to each other, showing a Da Nang seeking to move forward with both legs: traditional and modern.
In the context that Da Nang city has just completed the arrangement of administrative units and is preparing for longer-term strategic steps, the message from this year's Tet mascot is therefore becoming even clearer.
Merging to create new momentum, preserve identity for sustainable development, and constantly innovate to catch up with the movements of the times. From a public art work, Da Nang has told a big story about how a city reinvents itself.
Perhaps, that is also the reason why "Kim Ma Hop Nhat" is not only a check-in point for Tet, but also an image that evokes reflection. When knowing how to connect individual values into a common whole, Da Nang brings hope of having enough strength and faith to break through on the journey ahead.
