Awakening the national roots

From the legend of the "hundred-egg sac", the Vietnamese people all recognize each other as brothers, sharing the same origin, the same Lac Hong bloodline and the same National Ancestor, the Hung Kings. The Vietnamese nation originated from the Hung King era, when the Hung Kings founded the Van Lang nation. The Vietnamese people honor the Hung Kings as their ancestors, and the tradition of worship has been maintained through many generations, becoming a sacred ancestral belief. This belief unites the community, creating the motivation to protect the country from natural disasters and foreign invaders.

For generations, in the minds of every Vietnamese person, the Hung Kings are the National Founders who built the first state in history, the common ancestors of the entire nation. Worshiping the Hung Kings is not only a purely spiritual activity like other worship activities to bring peace to people's souls, but it is also a cultural activity of a community nature, demonstrating the spirit of solidarity of the Vietnamese people.

Cultural researcher DUONG HUY THIEN: The origin of the Hung King worship is ancestor worship. The Vietnamese people have a tradition of remembering the source of water, other countries also worship ancestors, but no country has ever worshiped a common ancestor, King Hung.

Since 2001, Hung Kings Commemoration Day has become the National Commemoration Day of Vietnam. On December 6, 2012, UNESCO recognized “Hung Kings Worship” as a representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity. These assessments and recognitions have affirmed the stature, role and significance of the Hung Kings Commemoration Festival in the spiritual and cultural life of our nation.

Associate Professor, Doctor BUI HOAI SON - Standing Member of the National Assembly's Committee on Culture and Education : UNESCO highly appreciates the worship of Hung Kings throughout the past but still exists today, is still practiced by the Vietnamese ethnic community and practiced in many rich and diverse ways to honor that tradition.

Throughout thousands of years of history, the Hung Kings' death anniversary and worship have become a spiritual support, traditional cultural value, a strong connection for "the whole country to look towards Hung Temple and from Hung Temple to look out at the whole country", Lac Hong descendants join hands to preserve and develop in the era of national growth, building the homeland and country to become more and more prosperous, fulfilling the wishes of our ancestors.

Ms. NGUYEN THI THANH - Chieng Coi Ward, Son La City We also often teach our children to remember the Hung Kings, the people who built and defended the country, our ancestors. I think this traditional custom is very good and we need to preserve and promote it.

Traveling across the five continents, only Vietnam worships the same Ancestor, our people call each other with two affectionate words: compatriots. Every anniversary of the Ancestor's death reminds us of our pride in our national origin. That spiritual and cultural value will continue to be a spiritual point, a provision for every Vietnamese person to strive to rise up, contributing to building a rich and beautiful homeland and country as Uncle Ho advised: "The Hung Kings had the merit of building the country. We, uncles and nephews, must work together to protect the country"./.

Editor: Quoc Hung

Source: https://sonlatv.vn/khoi-day-nguon-coi-dan-toc-27193.html