TV show celebrates President Ho Chi Minh"s birthday

A television show last night featured President Ho Chi Minh’spatriotism, desire for peace, strong will and readiness to sacrifice forthe dream of liberating Viet Nam from colonialism.

 

A procession features differentimages of President Ho on Saturday. The activity is among culturalevents organised during the Sen Village Festival celebrating President Ho’sbirthday.

The show was broadcast live from Ba Dinh Square in Ha Noiand Kim Lien Village in the central province of Nghe An, where Ho wasborn.

It included talks with foreign and domestic researchers, warveterans in Ha Noi as well as recorded meeting with scholars in Britainand France. Various songs, dances by local and foreign artists weresprinkled throughout the show.

“He came here to learn, to read and to study English. Hestarted earning money clearing snow. His friends said his hands becameswollen after hours of shovelling snow. He worked with thin clothes.”These were the words used by John Callow, director of Archives at theMarx Memorial Library in London.

Audience were shown a small room in the basement of theCarlton Hotel in London where Nguyen Ai Quoc worked as a pastrycook in1913. He used to write new English words on his arms to learn whileworking as he had no time to wash his hands and write them down.

Came to learn

“It is hard to know how many books he read in two years inthe United Kingdom. We know for sure that he came here to learn, not toearn a living,” noted Len Aldis, general secretary of UK-Viet NamFriendship Association.

Lady Borton, an American scholar, said in his first 10 yearstravelling abroad, Ho Chi Minh met many difficulties because he wastotally alone.

Borton said she appreciated Ho Chi Minh’s extraordinarycapability to be able to select talented people and combine them. “Healways thought about his people, not about power for himself,” she said.

Nearly 80 works of art by 70 artists from around the country are on display at the Ho Chi Minh Museum in Ha Noi.

The works, entitled Chu Tich Ho Chi Minh – Nguoi Khoi NguonSang Tao (President Ho Chi Minh – Creation Inspirer) depicts 79 years inthe life of the President. They represent various genres, includingpainting, graphics, sculpture, literature and music. .

The Viet Nam Journalists Association has found its own wayto celebrate President Ho’s birthday, through an exhibition featuring HoChi Minh with Viet Nam’s revolutionary journalism at the headquartersof the association in Duong Dinh Nghe Street, Cau Giay District, Ha Noi.

More than 200 photos and objects display Nguyen Ai Quocworking as a journalist and his meetings with journalists all over theworld. The exhibition focuses on three topics: Nguyen Ai Quoc, thefoundation builder for Viet Nam Revolutionary Journalism; Journalist HoChi Minh; and how Viet Nam Journalism has been inspired by Ho Chi Minh’smoral example.

From the first article written in France in 1919, Ho ChiMinh left behind a large heritage of over 2,000 articles under dozens ofpen names published in many countries throughout the world, which arepieces making up the entire picture of the era. 

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TV show celebrates President Ho Chi Minh"s birthday

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