The Chieng Tro Festival in Trinh Xa village takes place from January 10 to 12 to preserve and develop unique traditional cultural values, while honoring the great merit of Tam Cong Trinh Quoc Bao - who made many contributions to the history and culture of the nation under the Ly Dynasty. He is also the one who created the Chieng Tro Festival - a precious intangible cultural heritage of the nation.
On the morning of February 21 (January 12 of the lunar calendar), Yen Ninh commune (Yen Dinh) organized the opening ceremony of the 2024 Chieng Tro Festival on a large scale. Representatives of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, leaders of Yen Dinh district, communes in the district, along with a large number of people from all walks of life and tourists from all over the country attended.
Delegates and a large crowd attended the opening ceremony of the festival.
The Chieng Tro Festival in Trinh Xa village is a festival that reflects the working life, fighting, and dreams of the people, associated with the history of fighting against foreign invaders and the name of General Tam Cong Trinh Quoc Bao - who had great merit in defeating the invaders, protecting the country, creating and teaching Chieng Tro to the people in the commune.
On June 20, 2017, the Chieng Tro Festival was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Phung Nghinh worship ceremony
General Tam Cong Trinh Quoc Bao (998 - 1085) also known as Trinh Ban, was from Trinh Xa village (Chieng village). He was an official under the Ly dynasty, helped King Ly Thanh Tong defeat the Song army in the North, and pacified the Champa rebels in the South, so he was given the title Dong Phuong Hac Quang Dai Vuong.
The ceremony of bringing the players to the field.
According to folklore, King Ly Thanh Tong ordered General Trinh Quoc Bao to find a way to fight the enemy. Once, in a dream, he saw two elephants (representing two mountains: Vang Mountain and Khoai Mountain, located to the west of Trinh Xa village) in the middle of a field growling at each other. He came up with a way to fight the enemy by building a team of bamboo elephants that looked like real elephants. In addition, the elephants' trunks were also equipped with fireworks so that when they went into battle, the fireworks would explode, accompanied by thunderous explosions, lightning, and smoke, causing the enemy to panic and flee. After winning the battle, the Ly Dynasty held a festival to review the victory over the Champa invaders.
Comrade Hoang Trung Hung, Head of the District Party Committee's Propaganda Department, beat the drum to open the festival.
The Chieng Tro Festival is organized in 2 parts: The ceremony begins with the Phung Nghinh worship ritual, offering incense, and carrying elephants from Trinh Xa communal house to the commune stadium to report to the village's tutelary god about a year of labor and production of the local people.
The festival takes place with 12 special performances such as: Son-in-law selection, horse-drawn carriage, elephant fighting, dragon fighting, carp transforming into dragon, Phung Hoan procession...; in which, elephant fighting is considered the most special and has become a cultural beauty preserved and organized annually by authorities at all levels and the people. The festival also takes place excitingly with competitions: making longan cakes, rice cakes with radial leaves - traditional products of the locality.
After the performance, all elephants, horses, and dragons are brought to heaven and earth to show gratitude to the merits of our ancestors. The festival is a cultural activity that meets the spiritual needs of the people, praying for health, prosperity, and good crops; it is an opportunity for people to express their respect and gratitude to the gods and ancestors who have contributed to the building and defending of the country.
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