( PowerPoint 2007+ ) Hung Kings'''' Death Anniversary ( Lễ hội giỗtổ Hùng Vương )

Hung Kings’ Death Anniversary... Legend of Hung Kings Death Anniversary... De Lai, king of a northern tribe, with his daughter Au Co made a trip to visit the south.Admiring Lac Long

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Hung Kings’

Death Anniversary

1 Legend of Hung

Kings Death Anniversary

It is said that thousands

of years ago, Lac Long

Quan (King Dragon of

the Land of Lac Viet) had

superhuman strength

and liked to stay near

water He succeeded to

the throne of his father,

and governed the

Lac-Viet tribe

De Lai, king of a

northern tribe, with his

daughter Au Co made a

trip to visit the

south.Admiring Lac Long

Quan’s talent, De Lai

married Au Co to Lac

Long Quan

Lac Long Quan’s statue in Hung Temple

Au Co and 100 egg s , which hatched i nto 100 chi ldren

Lac Long Quan and A u Co

when they s eparate d

After that, Au Co became

pregnant and gave birth to a

membranous sac The sac

kept getting larger and larger,

and burst on the seventh day

Surprisingly, there were one

hundred eggs in the sac,

which hatched into one

hundred beautiful children.

The couple then parted due

to their different origins Lac Long Quan led 50 children down to the coastal region

to populate the land and propagate the race Au Co brought 50 children up to the mountainous area.

The Hung Kings

The children of Lac Long Quan and Au Co were the ancestors of Vietnam, and so the Vietnamese are known as "Dragon and Fairy descendants." The eldest child, Hung Vuong, was left to become King; he founded the capital in Phong Chau and named the country Van Lang He’s the first king

of Vietnam.

From generations to generations, the

Vietnamese people hold a festival nationwide on the 10th day of the third

lunar month to commemorate the anniversary of their ancestor's death,

founder of the Vietnamese nation - the first

Hung King

Lac Long Quan and Au Co’s statue in Nha Trang

2 Hung Kings’ Anniv e rsa ry

 Annually held from 8th to the 11th days of the third lunar month

 The main festival day is on the 10th day

 Takes place at the Hung Temple on Nghia Linh

Mountain (Phong Chau District, Phu Tho Province, some 85km northwest of Hanoi).

Hung Temple’s Gate

Ha Temple Trung Temple

Thuong Temple Gieng Temple

- Begins with a palanquin procession performed by three villages of Co Tich, Vi Cuong and Trieu Phu.

- Carries bamboo elephants and wooden horses.

- Begins with a palanquin procession performed by three villages of Co Tich, Vi Cuong and Trieu Phu.

- Carries bamboo elephants and wooden horses.

The procession Palanquin procession

“Banh Chung” and

“Banh Day” are

unreplaceable

offerings in order to

honour the merit of

Hung Kings who

“Banh Chung” and “Banh Day”

Making rice cakes to offer to Hung Kings

The children of the Hung Kings throughout the country

converge on the temple to offer incense The procession

includes the state representatives, one hundred young men and women in traditional costumes symbolizing “children of the

Dragon and Fairy” and pilgrims.

People are burning incense

Millions of visitors have flocked to Nghia Linh Mount

The procession marches are followed by

- Xoan singing performance (a kind of folk song of Vinh - Phu region) in Thuong Temple

- Ca tru (a kind of classical opera) in Ha Temple

- Other activities: including bamboo swings, nem con (throwing

a sacred ball through the ring), cham thau (beating bronze

drum), dam duong (pounding rice),…

Xoan singing

“Banh Chung” Cooking Contest

“Banh Giay” Cooking Contest

Free-Wrestling Contest Boat Racing Contest

“Dam Duong”

Dragon Dancing Swinging Contest

Writting Calligraphy Cock fighting

3 Meaning of Hung Kings’ Death

Anniversary

Hung Temple Festival not

only attracts visitors from all

over the country because of its

special traditional cultural

activities, but it is also a

sacred trip back in time to the

origins of the Vietnamese

nation People usually show

their love and pride of their

homeland and ancestral land

This religious belief deeply

imbedded in the minds of

every Vietnamese citizen,

regardless of where they

originate.

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