Visiting, sightseeing, participating in festive activities is a cultural beauty, the belief of many people in the Capital. Over time, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front at all levels in Hanoi City has actively monitored, propagated and coordinated with the government to preserve and promote the beauty of traditional culture and at the same time roll back unsound customs, antisocial behavior in festivals, etc.
Positive changes
The traditional festival of Phu Xa Communal House, Phu Thuong Ward (Tay Ho District) took place on February 10th lunar month. This year, the festival is held more economically than every year. Mr. Nguyen Quoc Thien, former Chairman of the Ward’s Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee, Head of the Organizing Committee said: Implementing the criteria of safety, civilization and saving, this year, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front mobilized people not to organize parties in the festival as every year; The traditional water-procession ritual decreased from 6 boats to 3 boats, participants were listed and approved by the Ward People’s Committee. With the active monitoring of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, festivities, folk games, cultural & arts exchanges were held to meet the criteria of solemn, thrifty and civilized; The disguised gambling disappeared so the people were very excited.
“Spring Calligraphy Festival” in 2017 was ensured in security and order in part thanks to the supervision of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee at all levels of Dong Da district. Photo: Nhat Nam
Mr. Nguyen Thuc Luong, Vice Chairman of the Tay Ho District’s Fatherland Front Committee, said that before the festival was held, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee cadres had actively propagated the people to carry out the policy of the city on civilization during the festival. In case of detecting any acts of unsound customs, antisocial behavior, or involving people in unhealthy games, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front shall recommend the organizing committee to handle timely. Such synchronous intervention has contributed to the successful organization of the festival.
In Long Bien district, the Vice Chairman of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee of Ngo Thanh Xuan District confirmed that supervision activities of the District’s Vietnamese Fatherland Front were implemented for all 36 festivals in the area. This year, in order to ensure the practicality, the District’s Vietnamese Fatherland Front reviews all documents relating to the management of the festival and the actual inspection of the monuments from the preparation of the organization to have the basis for coordination with the supervising branches and unions.
Need more synchronism and comprehensibility
Based on the direction of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front at all levels has developed a plan that is appropriate to the local situation to implement the monitoring. Mrs. Dao Thi Minh Hien, Vice Chairwoman of the Dong Da District People’s Committee said that Dong Da District features two major festivals: Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da Victory Anniversary and the “Spring Calligraphy Festival“, The District’s Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee has instructed right at the beginning of the year to ask the Vietnamese Fatherland Front of 21 wards to coordinate with the member organizations to supervise the organization of the festival. Specifically, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front supervises the work of ensuring urban order, traffic safety, environmental sanitation, fire prevention and fighting, etc.
The results of monitoring by the Vietnamese Fatherland Front at all levels show that the festival organizing committee are active, actively innovating towards civilization, saving; fully equipped fire prevention and fighting equipment; Arrange the game services to ensure safety, avoid the acts of taking advantage of the festival to organize gambling; security and order is enhanced … Vietnamese Fatherland Front also supervises car keeping and food and food safety assurance … In particular, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front supervises to prevent bad objects from taking advantage of the festival to propagandize illegally.
Mrs. Nguyen Thi Kim Dung, the Head of the Committee for Religious Affairs of the City’s Vietnamese Fatherland Front Committee said that not only guided and directed in writing, the Vietnamese Fatherland Front also directly involved in supervising many festivals in the area. The good news is that, with the strengthening of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front system from the city to the grassroots, the active and active participation of all levels of government and functional forces, festivals take place in the city this year unsound customs have been reduced; more civilized and economical but still solemn, many traditional cultural activities of the nation are promoted.
However, in addition to the positive results, many Vietnamese Fatherland Front officials said that the participation and coordination of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front and mass organizations in some places are not synchronous, so some festivals are still in jams, traffic jams, vehicle overdrafts that exceed the regulations. Therefore, the level of Hanoi City’s Vietnamese Fatherland Front should make more efforts in coordinating propaganda and supervision so that the organization of festivals in the area increasingly promote traditional beauty, reduce unsound customs and become an attractive destination for visitors.
Hanoimoi Newspaper