For every Vietnamese person, going to temples and pagodas at the beginning of the year or immersing themselves in the joyful and bustling atmosphere of spring festivals is a traditional cultural feature that has been formed and preserved for generations. Quang Ninh has hundreds of unique and rich relics and festivals that take place mainly in the spring, attracting a large number of people and tourists to visit spring and go to temples with wishes, praying for luck and peace in the new year and returning to the roots and good traditions of their homeland...
The beautiful and favorable weather during the Lunar New Year has attracted a large number of people and tourists to visit, sightsee and worship at most places of worship and spiritual tourism in the province, such as Cua Ong Temple (Cam Pha City), Yen Tu Relic and Scenic Area (Uong Bi City), Ngoa Van Pagoda, An Sinh Temple (Dong Trieu City), Cai Bau Pagoda (Van Don District), Xa Tac Temple (Mong Cai City).
Joining the crowd of people going to the temple in the early spring, in the cold weather, all over the streets are bright with flags and flowers, perhaps everyone can feel the harmony of heaven and earth when spring comes. The doors of pagodas, temples, and shrines are wide open with the ringing of bells and the spreading fragrance of incense and flowers, making people feel strangely pure and peaceful. Going out in the spring with a joyful spirit, ready to wait for the peace and happiness in the new year, everyone wears neat new clothes, exchanging warm, radiant smiles.
Ms. Hoang Thi Hue, Hong Ha Ward (Ha Long City), excitedly shared: Going to the pagoda has become a traditional activity of my family in the first days of the new year. Returning to the Buddha's realm helps me feel relaxed, calm, and dispel all worries to hope to welcome the new year with good things. In the year of At Ty, I wish for my family to be warm, healthy, happy, and wish everyone peace and all the best.
In a charming traditional ao dai, Ms. Tran Thi Thu Trang, Cam Thanh ward (Cam Pha city), and her family happily went to Cua Ong temple. “Every year, my family goes on a spring trip here, together offering incense to express our respect to our ancestors, national heroes, and wishing for good things for my family and everyone. This is also the way I want to educate and form in my children the awareness of appreciating and preserving the cultural and historical values that many generations of ancestors have cultivated and passed down,” Ms. Trang shared.
In the cultural flow of the nation, the early-year festival activities taking place in almost every region of the country have become cultural rendezvous points in spring. It is an opportunity for people to express their gratitude to their roots and ancestors, to practice the morality of "remembering the source when drinking water"; to recreate the beauty of daily life and production, and to express their wishes for a peaceful and prosperous life. Quang Ninh currently has nearly 80 festivals, many of which are traditional festivals taking place in spring. Nowadays, traditional festivals not only meet the spiritual needs and enjoyment of spiritual culture of the people, but also attract domestic and international tourists to visit and learn about culture. Therefore, the preparation for organizing early-spring festivals has always been of interest to the localities of the province, directing the organization to be methodical, thoughtful, ensuring solemnity, safety, civilization, health, economy and imbued with national identity.
One of the spring festivals that kicks off the series of spring festivals in Quang Ninh is the Tien Cong Festival, which is held annually on January 7 in the Ha Nam region (Quang Yen town). According to ancient customs, on this day, the elderly who are 70, 80, and 90 years old from the Tien Cong clans who have contributed to reclaiming the land and establishing the prosperous Ha Nam island region as it is today are brought by their descendants to the Tien Cong temple in Cam La commune to pay tribute to their ancestors and heaven and earth. On these days, descendants from near and far gather to show their filial piety to their grandparents and parents and show their gratitude to their ancestors.
Yen Tu Spring Festival (Uong Bi City) is the largest festival in the country and the largest festival in Quang Ninh, the festival starts on the 10th of January and lasts for 3 months of spring. In addition to spiritual activities, Yen Tu Spring Festival also opens a unique cultural space with folk games; traditional art performances, ethnic musical instruments; dragon and lion dances; bringing visitors to experience the cuisine and culture of the Dao Thanh Y ethnic community at the foot of Yen Tu mountain.
Spring festivals in Dong Trieu, such as Quynh Lam Pagoda Festival, Ngoa Van Spring Festival, Thai Mieu Festival... are all organized on a large scale and solemnly with rituals of worshiping Buddha, worshiping heaven and earth to pray for national peace and prosperity. Coming to Cua Ong Temple (Cam Pha City), visitors can not only enjoy the beautiful scenery of the Northeast, offer incense to commemorate Hung Nhuong Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tang and other people who have contributed to the country, but also have the opportunity to participate in the temple festival - one of the unique traditional festivals, which has been included in the list of national intangible cultural heritage.
In the eastern localities of the province, where many ethnic minorities live, traditional festivals here also bear their own cultural imprints. These days, ethnic people in all villages of Binh Lieu are eagerly preparing for the Luc Na Communal House Festival - one of the biggest festivals in Binh Lieu in the spring, which will take place on January 16-17. The communal house is the place to worship the village's tutelary god Hoang Can - the hero who fought off the Northern invaders, protecting the village and the country. Mr. Vi Ngoc Nhat, Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Binh Lieu district, said: Luc Na Communal House Festival is the first festival in the spring festival season in Binh Lieu. Therefore, along with traditional rituals, the festival is organized with spring activities such as cultural exchanges, folk games, and ethnic sports competitions. Thereby, creating attraction for tourists and people to participate, contributing to community cohesion.
The Spring Festival in Quang Ninh is a “living museum” that has been created, passed down and maintained its vitality from generation to generation, becoming a bridge between the past and the present, so that today’s generation can foster patriotism and pride in the fine traditions of their homeland, contributing to preserving the nation’s thousand-year-old cultural identity.
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