Featuring three main topics of Hanoi on the day of victory, Hanoi - the flow of heritage, and Hanoi - City For Peace - Creative city, the festival recreates the historical milestones of the capital through the ages, introducing and performing tangible and intangible cultural heritage, festivals and typical craft villages of the capital. One of the highlights of the festival is a performance reenacting the liberation troop's entering the capital city on October 10, 1954, to take over Hanoi, drawing nearly 1,000 soldiers and 200 artists. The festival is a chance to affirm the noble qualities and values of the time-honoured, heroic, peaceful and friendly Hanoi and the Vietnamese nation as a whole, as well as Vietnamese people's aspirations for peace./.