While the morning mist still lingers over the streets, Hue’s flower market is already awake before dawn. At the market along Ngo Kha Street in Phu Xuan Ward, near the wholesale market, warm yellow lights spill over bundles of flowers still in bud. The sharp revving of motorbikes, vendors calling out to one another, and brisk bargaining create a unique rhythm of the final days of the lunar year.

On the evening of August 26, at the Provincial Labor Cultural House, the Alliance of Arts and Literature Association of Thua Thien Hue held a performance and recorded the dance and poetry program “Ganh hang rong xu Hue” (Street Vendors of Hue).