Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends the Cultural Festival for Peace in Hanoi on Oct 6, 2024. (photo: VGP/ Nhat Bac)

The festival attracted representatives from the United Nations in Vietnam and ambassadors from several countries.

The Cultural Festival for Peace aims to spread the message on the value of culture and peace and creativity of Thang Long-Hanoi people through different periods.

More than 8,000 people, representing all districts, agencies, and forces in the capital, attended a parade and cultural and art performances, featuring the capital’s intangible cultural heritages and traditions.

Traditional art forms such as ca trù (a form of chamber music), water puppetry, and xam singing, and re-enactments of folk belief rituals worshipping Saint Tan Vien, the Trung Sisters, and Saint Giong have honoured the eternal cultural values of Hanoi.