(CLO) Tien La Temple Festival is representative, expressing the identity of the community and locality, reflecting cultural diversity and human creativity, and being passed down through many generations.
On February 28, at the Tien La Temple Festival (Duc Giang Commune, Bac Giang City, Bac Giang Province), a ceremony was held to announce the decision of the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism to include the Tien La Temple Festival in the list of national intangible cultural heritage.
Tien La Temple Festival, also known as King Tran Minh Tong Temple Festival, is held on the first day of the second lunar month every year.
Leaders of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bac Giang province awarded the Certificate of recognition of Tien La Temple Festival as a national intangible cultural heritage. Photo: Bac Giang Newspaper
Legend has it that in Tien La village, Emperor Tran Anh Tong abdicated the throne to Crown Prince Tran Minh Tong to go to the Buddhist temple Vinh Nghiem (now in Tri Yen commune, Yen Dung district) - the place where the founder of Truc Lam Zen sect practiced.
King Tran Minh Tong often visited his father and passed through La ferry (in present-day Tien La village). Loving this land, the King ordered his troops to build dikes to prevent flooding and gave rice fields to ferrymen so that people did not have to pay ferry fares when crossing. After King Tran Minh Tong passed away, the people built a temple at the old ferry and held a festival to commemorate him.
Due to war and historical factors, it was not until the 1990s that the Tien La Temple Festival was restored and held annually. The festival includes traditional rituals such as pounding sticky rice cakes to offer to the King, water procession, incense offering, and offering of gifts from the clans.
The festival includes folk games imbued with national identity: catching ducks on land, human chess, traditional wrestling, swinging, smashing clay pots, tug of war...
Along with its religious value, the temple of King Tran Minh Tong, built in the 14th century, is a unique architectural work, preserving many valuable documents and artifacts.
These include: The king's statue was created during the Le Dynasty, a system of stone steles, ancient royal decrees from the Nguyen Dynasty, stone incense burners... In 2001, the temple was ranked as a provincial historical and cultural relic.
Water procession ceremony at Tien La Temple Festival. Photo: Bac Giang Newspaper
According to the cultural management agency, Tien La Temple Festival is representative, expressing the identity of the community and locality, reflecting cultural diversity, human creativity, inherited through many generations, with the ability to recover and exist for a long time. The festival reflects the cultural beliefs of agricultural residents, contributing to connecting the village community, sharing beliefs, praying to the gods with the wish for health, happiness and peace.
T.Toan
Source: https://www.congluan.vn/le-hoi-den-tien-la-nhan-bang-chung-nhan-di-san-quoc-gia-post336636.html
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