Early in the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year 2025, thousands of people and tourists from everywhere flocked to the Go - Truong Uc Fair (Phong Thanh village, Tuy Phuoc town) with wishes for a new year of peace, prosperity, joy and happiness.
Opening of the Go Truong Market Spring Festival in Australia
This is a market with strong cultural features of the land of Vo Binh Dinh. Go Market is ranked by the Vietnam Record Book Center as one of the "100 most unique markets in Vietnam", because it only meets on the 1st and 2nd of the Lunar New Year each year.
Delegates perform the spring opening ceremony of the Go Market Festival.
This year's Go Market Festival is organized on a grand scale, imbued with national culture. In addition to buying the first luck of the year, people and tourists can also witness and enjoy many comprehensive art programs "Welcoming the New Year" with performances such as: festival drums, lion dances, singing, dancing, bai choi, tuong singing, traditional martial arts performances... Especially when coming to the Go Fair this year, visitors also have the opportunity to explore traditional folk games typical of the land of martial arts such as: capturing the flag, crow jumping, jumping the sack, catching loach in a jar, smashing kettles...
Regarding the Go Market Festival, the book “Tuy Phuoc - History and Culture” (National Political Publishing House - Truth, 2015) said: “Associated with local legends, this place used to be an outpost of the Tay Son army stationed to protect Thi Nai port and the Imperial Citadel. When Tet came, Emperor Quang Trung issued an edict allowing the spring festival to be held at Go Truong Uc market, first for the people to enjoy the spring after the war of loss and hardship, and then for the army to enjoy the spring and lessen their homesickness. The edict also stipulated the time for the spring festival from the first to the third day of Tet. Go Market is a place where there is no challenge or argument as usual, and buying and selling is simply a way to give each other a little spring fortune, wishing everyone and every family a peaceful and prosperous new year, not simply for economic reasons…”.
and enjoy spring. On a spring day, the sun is warm and pleasant, visitors from near and far gather in floral clothes, everyone is gentle and smiling, this is a very unique and attractive beauty of the market. People go to the fair to buy and sell for luck without bargaining like the commodity markets we often see. Visiting Go Market, visitors can also buy local products such as betel and areca nuts, Truong Uc lime, fresh fish and shrimp caught in Thi Nai lagoon, gai leaf cakes, Huyen market spring rolls, sticky rice wine and Truong Uc rice wine...