A group of 1,300 Vietnamese students simultaneously danced with semaphore-coded gestures in Da Nang on Saturday in an effort to spread the message of Vietnam’s sovereignty over the East Vietnam Sea.

The synchronized group dancing, held on the beach of the Bien Dong Park in Da Nang, was performed by 1,300 college students using flag semaphore, an information-conveying system deploying movements of hand-held flags.

The participants in uniform belong to the Da Nang chapter of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, an organization that manages large-scale activities of university students in the city.

The dancing was made against the background songs which evoke patriotism and call for devotion from students, in agreement with the event’s intended idea of encouraging the Vietnamese youth to make sacrifices in protecting Vietnam and its islands, notably, the Paracels, which China used force to seize from Vietnam in 1974.

The event has gone down in Vietnamese history as the synchronized semaphore dancing program cascading the East Vietnam Sea message with the greatest number of Youth Union members.

Here are pictures of the group dance:

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