Read Aloud -- Van hoa

Traditional festivals held each year give local people a wonderful chance to celebrate their shared history and carefully pass it on to younger generations.

The national museum proudly displays many rare artefacts collected from across several centuries of the country's remarkably rich and diverse cultural heritage.

Music and dance continue to remain important and deeply cherished parts of community celebrations in many small rural villages all across the region.

Growing cultural diversity has gradually helped make modern cities far more interesting and vibrant places for people to live, work, and raise children.

The annual ceremony always begins at dawn with a colourful and lively procession that moves slowly through the main street of the old town.