Among hundreds of students of Quoc Hoc High School for the Gifted studying abroad from a very young age, many of them have grown up and returned to Vietnam, to Hue for work.

At the Thai Family Ancestral House, Prof. Dr. Thai Kim Lan’s family had prepared banh chung, banh tet, phap lam, and phu the cakes from the previous day. After finding a satisfactory bamboo pole, the homeowner would perform a ceremony to worship the ancestors and then arrange incense table, candle, betel nut, wine, etc. in front of the yard to begin the ritual. Red couplets would also be prepared in advance and written in a conventional calligraphy style. In a dignified and joyful atmosphere to welcome the new year, the bamboo pole will be erected with the joyful jingle of the bell hanging from the top of the bamboo pole. The bamboo pole will celebrate Tet with the family and neighborhood until it is lowered on the 7th of January (Lunar Calendar) when everyone goes back to work in the new year.

Every year, in the days leading up to Tet, workers of Hue Green Park Center are busy preparing flowers and ornamental plants to display along the parks and central routes to welcome the new year.

Thanks to the 3D-scanning application, data of the status quo of architectural works in Hue heritage complex were obtained and stored. These data are used for conservation as well as for virtual reality (VR) tours.

Responding to the complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health sector has activated many F0 admission and treatment facilities, significantly reducing the load on frontline healthcare centre. However, at the baseline level medical center, where the workload is already high, the pressure is even heavier on the shoulders of each medical staff.

Amidst the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, many songs, paintings, poems, etc. were born, giving strength to the frontline forces and the entire people. They helped to unite, spread love, and inspired people to work together to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was the topic of a scientific workshop, which was organized by the Provincial General Library on the afternoon of December 30. The workshop was aimed to comprehensively evaluate the conservation and promotion of the value of Han - Nom (Sino- Demotic characters) heritage, ​​collected and digitized in the past time.

Recently, although not many, the number of conferences and events has been organized, offering accommodation establishments a certain source of income. This is seen as a "salvation" for the year-end accommodation establishments.

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Vietnamese fine art tradition, on the morning of December 10, the Union of Literature and Arts Associations, the Vietnam Fine Arts Association in Thua Thien Hue and the Thua Thien Hue Fine Arts Association jointly held the opening ceremony of an online art exhibition via the Facebook pages: Vietnam Fine Arts Association in Thua Thien Hue Member Information and Thua Thien Hue Fine Arts Association.