Highlights and expectations

10th Hue City Sports Festival 2026:
Highlights and expectations

Under the theme ‘Hue's Aspirations - Reaching New Heights in Sports’, the festival not only celebrated physical fitness activities but also linked sports development with improving quality of life, enriching cultural life...
The word ‘dạ’ of mine*

It may be very strange to hear, but in fact, I often wish to receive the ‘dạ’ a few more times, to feel the joy rising in my heart. My Hue people, how lovely they are!

The word ‘dạ’ of mine
Knowledge is more precious than wealth

There has been no field for plowing, Phuoc Tich villagers (Phong Hoa, Phong Dien) have desired to "sow words" for their descendants to escape poverty.

Knowledge is more precious than wealth
"Colors” of Hue in the rain

Perhaps the tour guides in Hue deliberately choose purple raincoats for visitors to wear and discover the heritages. Long groups of tourists, walking through the ancient, mossy walls, admiring Hue is a strange image; and that image is hard to forget.

Colors” of Hue in the rain
Small, beautiful and delicate

Everything of Hue is small, especially in cuisine. Eating is both materialistic and artistic, both culture and consciousness.

Small, beautiful and delicate
Offering thanh trà to the emperors

Under the Nguyen Dynasty, the imperial court had very specific regulations on the offering of local specialities to the imperial capital.

Offering thanh trà to the emperors
Rolled jam-cake – a taste of the seasons

Mứt bánh bó (rolled jam-cake) is both a cake and a jam. It sounds strange, but it has always been included in Tet holiday menu, from common folks’ households to the Forbidden City...

Rolled jam-cake – a taste of the seasons
5 newborns at New Year’s Eve

Laboring at the moment of transfering to the (Lunar) new year 2019, 32-year-old pregnant woman named Ho Thi Da Thao, from Huong Vinh, Huong Tra, Thua Thien Hue for the second time gave birth to her son as the clock stroke midnight.

5 newborns at New Year’s Eve
Simple but distinctive

“Surprised!” It is the impression of many people who enjoy the fig jams for the first time made by Dr. Vo Van Quoc Bao from Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry.

Simple but distinctive
Cyclo Limousine

Cyclo is nothing unfamiliar to the Vietnamese

Cyclo Limousine
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