(NLDO) - This is the largest and most unique festival in the Ha Nam island region, held to commemorate the ancestors who discovered and reclaimed...
On the occasion of the 591st anniversary of the founding of the island region of Ha Nam by the Tien Cong (1434 - 2025), on February 2 (ie January 5, At Ty year), at the national historical and cultural relic of Tien Cong Temple, Cam La commune, Quang Yen town (Quang Ninh province), the opening ceremony of the Tien Cong festival 2025 took place.
Descendants take the elderly to Tien Cong temple for the ceremony.
This is the biggest and most special spring festival in Ha Nam island region, held to commemorate the ancestors who discovered, reclaimed and established this island. The Tien Cong festival is also an occasion for descendants to celebrate the longevity of the elderly with a procession to the Tien Cong temple.
The Tien Cong Festival in Ha Nam island region has been preserved and promoted by the people for over 300 years. In 2017, the Tien Cong Festival was honored as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Every year, Tien Cong Festival has become a unique tourism product of Quang Yen town, attracting 30,000-40,000 visitors.
Maintaining the organization of the Festival is not only an opportunity for villagers to remember the merits of the ancestors, the first people to build the dike to establish the village, but also an opportunity for children to show filial piety to their parents, thereby educating the younger generations about the morality of "When drinking water, remember its source"; to together preserve and conserve the good traditional cultural values left by their ancestors.
The procession led the old man to the Tien Cong temple.
Tien Cong Temple is a place to worship 17 Tien Cong, who lived mainly by farming and fishing along the lake, along the Kim Nguu River, in Thang Long citadel and Nam Dinh province. In the 15th century, they and their families went down the Red River, to the Bach Dang estuary, gradually discovering mounds and clearing, building dikes, reclaiming the sea to have the developed Ha Nam island region as it is today.
The Tien Cong Festival 2025 will take place over three days from February 2 to February 4 (from the 5th to the 7th of the first lunar month) with many cultural and sports activities and rich folk games. The most special is the ceremony of carrying the General Thuong in a palanquin to the Tien Cong temple, imbued with the culture of Thang Long at the seaport, which will take place on the main festival day, the 7th of the first lunar month.
Opening ceremony of Tien Cong Festival 2025
Mr. Duong Van Mui, 95 years old, in Cam La commune, had his longevity celebrated with a thanksgiving ceremony at Tien Cong temple.
This year’s Tien Cong Festival is organized on a large scale with 3 collective processions of 35 elders. Accordingly, elders who are 80, 90, and 100 years old will sit on peach hammocks and be carried by their children and grandchildren to the Temple to perform the Tien Cong ceremony. In addition, there are more than 100 groups of elders leading the ceremony to the Tien Cong Temple.
During the 3 days of Tien Cong festival, there will also be many cultural and sports activities such as: human chess, to tom diem, swing playing, duet singing, tug of war...
Source: https://nld.com.vn/khai-mac-le-hoi-tien-cong-di-san-van-hoa-phi-vat-the-quoc-gia-196250202163359602.htm
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