Da Nang will host a wide range of events to welcome in the Tet Festival 2020.

The Da Nang-based Fine Arts Museum, 78 Le Duan Street, will host the ‘Colours of Year of the Rat 2020’ exhibition from 14 January - 8 February.

Co-organised by the municipal Fine Arts Association and the Museum, the exhibition will display over 40 works by local painters, and other 50 ones by local children. The displayed works will feature oil paints to synthetic charcoal, watercolours, wood carving, and more.

Most of the displayed paintings take the inspiration from the rat because 2020 is Year of the Rat.

The Spring Newspaper Festival 2020 will take place at the General Science Library, 46 Bach Dang on 15 January. On display will be copies of over 160 Tet magazines from 40 press agencies nationwide. 

A special musical performance entitled ‘Spring Colours’ to ring in Lunar New Year will be organised on 24 January from 10pm to midnight at a public park near the eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge.

The city will ring in Lunar New Year with 15-minute spectacular fireworks displays. The shows will set off from the Nguyen Van Troi Bridge, a vacant land area in front of the Lien Chieu District Administration Centre, and a vacant site in front of the Hoa Vang District Administration Centre on Lunar New Year’s Eve.

FireOne wireless system, which is the world's most advanced digital pyrotechnic firing and choreography system, will be applied in the launching of the fireworks.

An arts programme themed ‘Da Nang Welcomes in Spring’ will take place at a public park near the eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge in the evening of 1 February (8^th day of the 1^st lunar month).

Organised by the municipal Culture and Movie Centre, the finals of the 2020 Artistic Talent Competition will be held at a public park near the eastern end of the Rong (Dragon) Bridge on 28 and 29 January (4^th and 5^th days of the 1^st lunar month).

Arts lovers will be treated to an exciting traditional arts show entitled ‘The Soul of Viet Nam’ at Nguyen Hien Dinh Tuong Theatre, 155 Phan Chau Trinh everyday (except for Wednesdays).

From 23 - 29 January, the Spring Flower Festival 2020 will take place at the 29 March Park with various interesting events.

In particular, both local residents and visitors will have the opportunity to take part in various fascinating folk games.

During that period, as many as 1,000 bonsai works, rockeries, miniatures, and decorated stones will be displayed, whilst a photo exhibition about the city’s tangible and intangible cultural heritages will be organised, at the park.

Also at the park, a bird-singing contest and a number of musical performances will be organised.

The Fine Arts Museum, the Museum of Da Nang, and the Museum of Cham Sculpture will hold ceremonies to welcome the first footers to their places in the 1^st day of the 1^st lunar month which will fall on 25 January.

Such exciting programmes as a street carnival of live music and dancing, a street music, and ‘Bai choi’ (singing while acting as playing cards) and folk music performances, will take place periodically at weekends before, during and after Tet.

By NGOC HA - Translated by MAI DUNG