“Just one rain in Hue makes it be winter” is how Minh Tu, the journalist, borrowed the ancients to describe Hue rain in the long-running series titled “The awaited rains” in Tuoi Tre newspaper. It could also because the rains always bring a sense of melancholy to Hue, even the rains in the middle of summer days.

Within the framework of Hue Festival 2023, the Winter Festival "Winter in Hue" takes place from October to December with a number of new festival activities that brings more vibrance and attraction to the winter atmosphere of Hue for both local people and tourists.

Despite of the onset of rainy season, when tourists are no longer rushing to seek tourist destinations, Thua Thien Hue is proactively attracting tourists in the last months with numerous winter tourism activities and products in Hue.

In the old days, when most people suffering the life of deprivation and misery, the winter days attached to the boiling stoves of grandmothers and mothers. Up to now, when the life is better, the young people and many other families are keen on gathering around the hot hotpots, or spicy barbecues in the cold days in Hue.

Hue Festival Center informed that the “Winter Reunion” music program with the participation of young music bands within the framework of the Winter Festival - Hue Festival 2022 will take place at 19:00pm on December 24 at the stage in front of Quoc Hoc Hue High school for the Gifted.

The Department of Tourism said that it has just launched the “Hue in me” photo contest with the theme “Winter in Hue”.

According to the organizing committee, the program "Winter in Hue" will take place at 20:00 on December 3 at the Tay Khuyet Dai stage (on the Nguyen Thien Thuat - Le Huan route). This activity aims to create a highlight, contributing to increase the excitement, and serving the needs of visitors and locals to enjoy the culture and art at the Royal Citadel Night Street.

Not many people have noticed a special thing in this winter in Hue: For the first time ever, in the rainfall updates of the Provincial Commanding Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search & Rescue appears a very strange place, which is Quan Tuong Dai (the Imperial Observatory) in Hue Imperial City. The three words “Quan Tuong Dai” being read out on a rainy day sounds melancholy as if old friends saw each other once again after such a long time.

For flower growers in Phu Mau, Phu Thuong, Thuy Van (Hue City), there are always sprouts raised on the loose soil beds, so that their gardens and fields are green, not only for Tet holiday. Therefore, it is not difficult to see colorful flower gardens shimmering in the wind, whether spring, summer, autumn or winter.