Hoi An Dong Dong Dong Festival 2026

Back to Hoi An, participate in the field festival on the first day of the new year "Hoi An Dong Field Festival 2026" will officially take place on January 4, 2026, at the vegetable village in An My block, Hoi An Dong ward, Da Nang city with many experiences of unique agricultural rituals, along with rich exchange activities between tourists and farmers. The rice field festival is a traditional ritual organized by farmers to express their respect and gratitude to heaven, earth, and nature for bestowing good crops, good rain, and good wind, and is an opportunity for farmers to exchange and share experiences so that the new crop can harvest a lot of rice of good quality. In Hoi An Dong, the Field Festival is an activity to preserve and promote the intangible cultural values ​​of traditional wet rice farming; Motivate and encourage farmers to raise awareness of preserving the beauty of traditional crafts. This is also a unique festival held at the beginning of the new year 2026, bringing unique experiences to tourists with the traditional wet rice farming of Hoi An Dong farmers, contributing to creating more green tourism products in the ward. Coming to the 2026 Festival, visitors will be immersed in a festival space rich in indigenous culture. Activities will take place at the Festival such as: Ceremony to worship the God of Agriculture and God of the Emperor - a ritual associated with agricultural life for generations, expressing gratitude to heaven and earth and wishing for a year of good weather and wind. Experience "a day as a farmer" with demonstrations of buffalo plowing, tractors, and vibrating plows; Catch seedlings in Winter - Spring crop; rice planting competition. Visitors can wade into the fields, plow the land, plant rice, scoop water, catch fish along the shore, pick vegetables and light their own straw stove, cook rice pots, boil potatoes, experience the simplicity and joy of country life with Hoi An Dong farmers. Besides, there are also exchange activities, singing hut songs, folk games, enjoying the cultural space, walking around the countryside market with gifts of clean agricultural products, vegetables from An My vegetable village, and local OCOP products. Held for the first time in December 2023, the Agricultural Festival has attracted a large number of tourists to participate and enjoy experiencing Vietnam's unique cultural festival, which originates from wet rice agricultural civilization, and is still preserved and maintained in many localities, including Hoi An. In 2026, the Festival will not only be for local farmers, but will expand into an open cultural space, where visitors can live slowly, touch the farmland, chat with people, and leave in their hearts an image of peaceful but rich Da Nang. The 2026 Field Festival contributes to promoting the image of Hoi An Dong - the new meeting point of cultural and agricultural tourism in Da Nang Although the main economic sector in Hoi An is tourism and services, agricultural activities still play an important role in the lives of local people.