Tea scent remaining

Three nights of Festival with titles: "Tea – the Elite from heaven and earth", "Thai Nguyen welcomes visitors" and "Great tea banquet" remained in the heart of tourists in the country and international the beauty mark on Tea Festival.

"Tea Week" was held from July 11^th to August 14^th, 2011 at the main spot: Museum of Culture and the people of Vietnam, Song Cau Park, and 20-8 Square... is considered one of the important landmarks of Tea Festival.

With three main nights of Festival with titles: "Tea – the Elite from heaven and earth", "Thai Nguyen welcomes visitors" and "Great tea banquet" remained in the heart of tourists in the country and international the beauty mark. This is the first year on the territory of Vietnam that the Elite of tea regions from the country converged in Thai Nguyen to make a record of the most of tea makers, tea inviters and tea enjoyers in the same time.

These activities are organized on a large scale with the participation of more than 30 tea member companies of the Vietnam Tea Association; 21 enterprises and tea business cooperatives in the province; 9 districts, cities, towns and more over 30 villages of traditional tea production in the province; also with tea artisan and Vietnamese tea culture artisan, hundreds of artists, actors and folklore artists. In the scope of the Festival, Organization board held contests to win 3 Cups of "Golden Hands", "Tea Culture of Vietnam" and Cup of "Tea Bud Gold" with the participation of artisans, workers, farmers who performed the skills and processing of tea in the traditional tool to confirm the quality of tea, the uniqueness of Vietnamese tea culture, the subtle, ingenuity of farmers and producers in processing of tea for guests and friends domestic and international.

The entire space of Tea Culture Festival is designed with the special folklore characteristics of Vietnam by raw materials from bamboo, ivory bamboo and tea trunk. The participated stalls which carry the characteristics of each region in the country and the friend countries have created uniqueness cultural nuances and make thousands of tourists domestic and international in the Festival getting the uniqueness attractions, especially enjoying the taste of Vietnamese tea and tea from Laos, Japan, China, India, Taiwan, and Sri Lanka...

That the visitors more fully understand the tea, the Organizing Board has replayed the activities of the tea farmers, such as the picking, tea processing, tea making, and the Vietnamese tea drinking while introducing and promote the well-known areas of Thai Nguyen tea as Tan Cuong (Thai Nguyen city), La Bang (Dai Tu district), Minh Lap (Dong Hy). Visitors are impressed with the "Tea Week" which happened on the traditional and modern music and excellent art performance with ethnicities of the Viet Bac region in particular and Vietnamese ethnic culturals. The Festival also has many activities to bring the beauty of folklore as calligraphy demonstration, tea drying, the traditional games such as walking on stilts, rod puppets, running puppet, Con throwing...

Since Tea Festival, visitors understand more of history, the beauty of Vietnamese tea culture. It also is the opportunity to promoting the strengths of Thai Nguyen tea; honoring the land and men identity of Thai Nguyen province. That brings attraction of investors domestic and international in tea economic development and others strengths such as agriculture, tourism ... Specially the " Festival night to enjoying of tea " - night of warm meetings, communication and farewell between the Organizing Board of Tea Festival with tea industry representatives from countries, localities, business companies, sponsors and friends participants who makes the victory of Tea Festival. This is also an important night to create point focal and memorable to summarize all the activities, the achievements gained in the Tea Culture Festival and the Tea Festival which created good prerequisites for maintaining Tea Festival in the future years.

In the same " Festival night to enjoying of tea”, provincial Radio - Television was awarded the artwork contest "Viet Nam Tea Scent and Identity" in the category "The Moment of Life" held by the provincial Radio - Television for the photography artists who have photos of high artistic quality.