Thanh Tuyen festival kicks off in Tuyen Quang

In addition to the children's art programme, a variety of different-shaped lanterns of all sizes were paraded for the crowd to see.

The lanterns, designed by Tuyen Quang artisans, were themed to represent legendary creatures, historical heroes, folk animals, and tourism symbols. This year, the event is expected to attract about 100,000 visitors.

Thanh Tuyen Festival is not only a unique cultural feature every Mid-Autumn Festival in Tuyen Quang province, attracting a large number of old and young people, men and women, and ethnic groups to participate, but is also the largest Mid-Autumn Festival in the country, with many records confirmed by the Vietnam Guinness Book of Records such as: The festival with the most unique and largest Mid-Autumn lantern models in Vietnam, The largest Mid-Autumn Festival tray in Vietnam, The largest pair of lanterns in Vietnam.

Since 2015, Thanh Tuyen Festival has been organized in association with many cultural, artistic, sports and tourism activities. After 2 years of absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Tuyen Thanh Festival in 2022 was re-organized on a provincial scale, with the participation of districts and cities in the province, a number of foreign localities with friendly cooperative relations with the province and a number of agencies, organizations and businesses inside and outside the province.