After the success of the tournament in 2024, when for the first time Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV) coordinated with District 5 People’s Committee and Ho Chi Minh City Lion – Lion – Dragon Federation to organize, the District International Lion and Dragon Tournament 5 Expanded Cho Lon Cup – HTV 2025 continues to be organized on a large scale, gathering 45 Lion and Dragon delegations across the country to register to attend. This year’s tournament takes place in the atmosphere of celebrating Spring At Ty 2025, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the country’s reunification (April 30, 1975 – April 30, 2025), promising to bring many attractions, high professional quality, and expansion. international exchange with many notable new points.
The art of Lion and Dragon is a cultural beauty of Vietnamese people
The theme of this year’s tournament is “A country full of joy”. Accordingly, the competitions are linked with the content of spreading love for the homeland, national pride, development and innovation of Ho Chi Minh City with digital transformation, 4.0 technology, metro serving people. people, entering a new era of the nation…
In particular, for the first time, the tournament has the participation of three famous international Lion and Dragon delegations from Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. In addition, this is also the first time the tournament has organized a qualifying round to select from 45 teams across the country to register to participate, finding the 20 strongest teams to compete in the final round of the Lan Len Mai Hoa Thung content.
The announcement ceremony of the International Lion and Dragon Award, District 5, Cho Lon Cup – HTV 2025 expansion took place on the morning of January 3
2 prestigious trophies of the International Lion and Dragon Tournament, District 5, Cho Lon Cup – HTV 2025
The qualifying round took place on December 15 and 16, 2024. For the first time, a Lion and Dragon tournament has a final ranking contest to select the champion team, in order to enhance competition between groups and attract spectators to enjoy. The tournament takes place in 4 days: from January 9 to January 12, 2025 at the Cultural and Sports Center of District 5. Of which, 1 day is for the traditional dragon dance competition, the remaining 3 days are for the Lan to Mai Hoa content competition. valley. HTV will broadcast live all 4 days of the exam.
The organizing committee hopes that the tournament will continue to be a place for unique competitions, displaying the most quintessential and beautiful techniques of the Lion and Dragon art form of sport. This is to serve the people of Ho Chi Minh City and television audiences nationwide, contributing to spreading attractive cultural and sports tourism products of District 5 in particular and Ho Chi Minh City in general, thereby promoting, Preserving Vietnamese cultural identity.
