The delicious, soft white rice cake has become a gift from the Ancestral Land chosen by many tourists when visiting the Hung Temple Historical Site.
Banh chung and banh giay - two types of cakes symbolizing "round sky, square earth", are associated with the legendary story about the filial piety of Prince Lang Lieu during the reign of the 6th Hung King. After thousands of years of history, banh chung and banh giay are still preserved intact in shape and flavor by the Vietnamese people to worship their ancestors.
Nowadays, banh chung and banh giay are indispensable offerings in every holiday, death anniversary, wedding, and are familiar hometown gifts for all Vietnamese people. Especially for the people of Phu Tho, the profession of making banh chung and banh giay has become a cultural tradition, custom, and unique ritual that cannot be found anywhere else.
Xom Village in Hung Lo Commune, Viet Tri City is considered the birthplace of Chung Cakes for the Hung Kings. Since 2017, Hung Lo people have successfully built the brand “Hung Lo Chung Cakes” and developed it into a traditional craft village. To date, Hung Lo Chung Cakes have been selected as a product serving the province’s tourism industry.
Pounding rice cake at Mo Chu Ha village, Bach Hac ward, Viet Tri city.
If Xom village, Hung Lo commune is considered one of the cradles of the Chung cake making profession in Phu Tho, Mo Chu Ha village, Bach Hac ward, Viet Tri city is a famous locality for its Giay cake making profession and the Giay cake pounding competition to offer to the King.
Mr. Do Quang Le - artisan making rice cakes in Mo Chu Ha village said: Mo Chu Ha village still pound rice cakes with stone mortars and bamboo pestles, this is a traditional cultural beauty preserved from generation to generation. This is also the secret to making the most fragrant, white and delicious rice cakes that not every locality can do. Every January and on the occasion of the Hung King's death anniversary, our villagers organize a rice cake pounding competition to review the tradition of "When drinking water, remember its source" and prepare soft, fragrant and flavorful rice cakes to offer to our ancestors.
Hung Lo Chung Cake, Viet Tri city is introduced to tourists and international friends.
This is a contest held annually by Phu Tho province at the Hung Temple Festival to recreate the contest of making offerings to ancestors from the time of the Hung Kings. The first prize winning team will have the honor of representing the people of the whole country to make products to offer to ancestors on the anniversary of the Hung Kings - the 10th day of the third lunar month of the following year.
Comrade Nguyen Dac Thuy - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism affirmed: In the flow of the Hung King worshiping belief of Vietnamese residents, the square Chung cakes and round Giay cakes from the legend have been passed down, preserved and developed by the community into the Chung cake and Giay cake making profession as it is today. Entering the period of renovation, economic development, stable people's lives, the Chung cake and Giay cake making profession has increasingly become an indispensable need, meeting the needs of serving festivals and spiritual tourism of the people. Through the development of the profession, it has contributed to preserving and promoting cultural values, arousing pride in the historical traditions of the nation; showing respect for the achievements and creativity in the labor of the people; at the same time, contributing to promoting and introducing the unique cultural and culinary features of the Ancestral Land to domestic and foreign tourists.
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