The 2024 Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival was held on September 21 or the 19th of the lunar August instead of the 9th, as the host Do Son district is among the localities in Hai Phong city hardest hit by Typhoon Yagi.

The Buffalo Fighting Festival is a famous traditional event that closely attaches with the name of Do Son in the northern port city of Hai Phong. It is a traditional cultural, religious or artistic activity that reflects the material and spiritual life of a community in the past.

Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival has been recognized as the National Intangible Cultural Heritage since December 27, 2012 as an effort to honor the community cultural practices, protecting and promoting intangible cultural heritage values.

Many people organise buffalo fighting festivals to gamble illegally, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Trinh Thi Thuy said at a conference held in Hanoi this week.