Homeland Spring 2024: President and his wife and overseas Vietnamese offer incense at Kinh Thien Palace

21/01/2025

The program “Spring in the homeland” organized annually by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese is an important political and cultural program for the Vietnamese community abroad.

On the occasion of the New Year of the Snake 2025, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in coordination with the Hanoi People’s Committee organized in Hanoi the Homeland Spring 2025 program with the theme “Vietnam – Rising in the new era”. The program includes many meaningful activities towards the origin, with the participation of more than 3,000 delegates, including leaders of the Party, State, ministries, departments, central agencies to localities and overseas Vietnamese delegates from countries around the world.

Within the framework of the program, on the morning of January 19, 2042 (ie December 20, the year of the Dragon), in Hanoi, President Luong Cuong, his wife and the overseas Vietnamese delegation attending the Spring Homeland 2024 program offered incense at Kinh Thien Palace, Thang Long Imperial Citadel Relic Site.

At the Kinh Thien Palace – the most important palace, from the 15th to 18th centuries, was the place where the most solemn ceremonies of the feudal dynasties were held. The incense offering ceremony here has become a tradition of the Homeland Spring Program, a symbol of the sentiment and the national origin of Vietnamese people around the world. On behalf of the Party and State leaders, President Luong Cuong and his wife, along with representatives of more than 6 million overseas Vietnamese, respectfully offered incense to the altar of heaven and earth, the souls of ancestors, to remember and show gratitude to those who have contributed to building and defending the country over the past thousands of years. At the same time, they prayed for national peace and security, favorable weather, and for Vietnam to develop more and more prosperously and powerfully.

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