31,000 to parade for Hanoi grand anniversary

Around 31,000 people are expected to take part in the biggest-ever parade to celebrate the Grand Anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi at Ba Dinh Square on October 10, reports Tuoi Tre newspaper.

It will begin with a torchlight procession from Ho Chi Minh Museum to President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum at 7:55 a.m. Then, there will be a flag-raising ceremony with a 21-gun salute and a speech delivered by President Nguyen Minh Triet.

Ten helicopters will carry Party flags, national flags and red flags with the slogan “Celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi” over Ba Dinh Square to open the military, police and civil defense parade. 

A motorcade will follow carrying the Ly dynasty dragon, the Hanoi symbol and the UNESCO certificate to acknowledge the Imperial Citadel as world heritage and 13 groups representing veterans, workers, farmers, the intellectuals, enterprises, youth, women, ethnic minority people, religious organizations, overseas Vietnamese, international guests and the media.

Then there will be a 30 minute music performance and 1,000 children will set doves free and release balloons into the air to wrap the parade officially.

The program is expected to take about two hours.

The parade will show the strength and achievements of the nation’s capital over the past 1,000 years of building and development. It would also be a display of the national pride of the Vietnamese people and help bolster Vietnamese faith in the Party.

Audiences will be able to watch the program live on channels of Vietnam Television. Twenty giant TV screens will be set up around the city.

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31,000 to parade for Hanoi grand anniversary

Around 31,000 people are expected to take part in the biggest-ever parade to celebrate the Grand Anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi at Ba Dinh Square on October 10, reports Tuoi Tre newspaper.

It will begin with a torchlight procession from Ho Chi Minh Museum to President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum at 7:55 a.m. Then, there will be a flag-raising ceremony with a 21-gun salute and a speech delivered by President Nguyen Minh Triet.

Ten helicopters will carry Party flags, national flags and red flags with the slogan “Celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi” over Ba Dinh Square to open the military, police and civil defense parade. 

A motorcade will follow carrying the Ly dynasty dragon, the Hanoi symbol and the UNESCO certificate to acknowledge the Imperial Citadel as world heritage and 13 groups representing veterans, workers, farmers, the intellectuals, enterprises, youth, women, ethnic minority people, religious organizations, overseas Vietnamese, international guests and the media.

Then there will be a 30 minute music performance and 1,000 children will set doves free and release balloons into the air to wrap the parade officially.

The program is expected to take about two hours.

The parade will show the strength and achievements of the nation’s capital over the past 1,000 years of building and development. It would also be a display of the national pride of the Vietnamese people and help bolster Vietnamese faith in the Party.

Audiences will be able to watch the program live on channels of Vietnam Television. Twenty giant TV screens will be set up around the city.

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31,000 to parade for Hanoi grand anniversary

Around 31,000 people are expected to take part in the biggest-ever parade to celebrate the Grand Anniversary of Thang Long-Ha Noi at Ba Dinh Square on October 10, reports Tuoi Tre newspaper.

It will begin with a torchlight procession from Ho Chi Minh Museum to President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum at 7:55 a.m. Then, there will be a flag-raising ceremony with a 21-gun salute and a speech delivered by President Nguyen Minh Triet.

Ten helicopters will carry Party flags, national flags and red flags with the slogan “Celebration of the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi” over Ba Dinh Square to open the military, police and civil defense parade. 

A motorcade will follow carrying the Ly dynasty dragon, the Hanoi symbol and the UNESCO certificate to acknowledge the Imperial Citadel as world heritage and 13 groups representing veterans, workers, farmers, the intellectuals, enterprises, youth, women, ethnic minority people, religious organizations, overseas Vietnamese, international guests and the media.

Then there will be a 30 minute music performance and 1,000 children will set doves free and release balloons into the air to wrap the parade officially.

The program is expected to take about two hours.

The parade will show the strength and achievements of the nation’s capital over the past 1,000 years of building and development. It would also be a display of the national pride of the Vietnamese people and help bolster Vietnamese faith in the Party.

Audiences will be able to watch the program live on channels of Vietnam Television. Twenty giant TV screens will be set up around the city.

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Hanoi’s grand anniversary to honor ao dai

Models perform ao dai at a fashion show in HCMC - Photo: Kieu Giang

A huge ao dai (Vietnamese long dress) festival will take place in the program “The fanciful night on Sword Lake” on the evening of October 1, kicking off the festival for the grand millennial anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, reports Vietnam News Agency.

Collections of ao dai from Vietnam’s three regions - the North, South and central -will be paraded by models from Ngoc Son Temple to The Huc Bridge and But Temple on Sword Lake. The dress collections will be displayed along a specially-built 350m catwalk decorated with woven mats, conical hats, and lively dioramas depicting Hanoi in ancient times.

The 45-minute ao dai performance, which will be broadcast live nationally on TV, will be followed by a 15-minute light festival and fireworks display.

Vietnamese designer Duc Hung will bring his four seasons collection to the festival.

“Hanoi has four seasons with distinctive characters which inspired me to create this collection,” said Hung.

Hung said he carefully selected made-in-Vietnam materials and colors for his collections, using brocade for spring, silk for summer, voile for autumn, and velvet for winter.

Hung’s ao dai collections will also present colors representing Vietnamese festivals of three regions such as pink for peach blossoms for Tet in the North, Hue purple for the Central and bright yellow representing the apricot blossoms of the South. Hung has designed 500 sets of ao dai as gifts for the festival to promote the Vietnamese long dress for international friends - Japan, France and Russia.

Hung’s ao dai collection will again be paraded to the sound of bronze drums in the program “Thang Long – the flying dragon city” on the evening of October 10 at the My Dinh National Stadium.

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