Yen Tu Spring Festival 2012: to offer the best services to visitors

A formal, saving, fun and safe Yen Tu Spring Festival 2012 will be held on February 1st, 2012 (on Jan. 10 of the Lunar Calendar) in Uong Bi City and last till the end of April. In this duration, a wide range of cultural, tourism and religious activities will take place to disseminate and promote the values of Yen Tu relic aiming at boosting its image to domestic and foreign visitors.

As scheduled, in the Opening Ceremony of the Festival, besides solemn rituals, such as Yen Tu incense offering Ceremony, Yen Tu holy sealing ceremony, ringing bell ceremony, ect., there will be exciting activities, namely festival dance; dragon dance with 3 groups of dancers and a singing performance by 100 dancers.

To prepare this year spring festival, Uong Bi City People’s Committee has requested its functional authorities to undertake their missions. Advertising materials, including leaflets, discs, signboards, instruction and regulation boards… were revised as Uong Bi is now a city and Yen Tu was recognized as a National Park.
Uong Bi City People’s Committee has also requested its relevant functional authorities to speed up the progress of other construction items serving the festival.

Other major infrastructure projects, namely: building retaining wall at Hoa Yen pagoda;  moving food service from Hoa Yen to the lower area; extending road from Nam Mau cross-road to Lan pagoda... are also recommended to be actively implemented. In addition, the city people’s committee has assigned Committee of the Provincial Buddhism Association to direct pagodas within the relic site to decorate and not to burn incenses inside the pagodas; to instruct people how to participate in religious activities in compliance with the current law.

Moreover, activities related to healthcare, rescue, environmental sanitation, security and fire prevention…are also intensified. Emergency staffs will be present at An Ky Sinh, Van Tieu, Hoa Yen pagodas and cable car station.

Phan Hang