Incense offering ceremony held in honour of Hung Kings
An incense offering ceremony was held in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 14, or the tenth day of the third lunar month, to commemorate the national founders, the Hung Kings.
Incense offering ceremony is the most important part of the Hung Kings Temple Festival (Photo: VNA)
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, representatives of ministries and agencies, and provincial leaders attend the incense offering ceremony (Photo: VNA)
Incense offering ceremony takes place at the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site on Nghia Linh Mountain (Photo: VNA)
(Photo: VNA)
(Photo: VNA)
Incense offering ceremony is the most important part of the Hung Kings Temple Festival. It takes place at the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site on Nghia Linh Mountain (Photo: VNA)
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attends the incense offering ceremony (Photo: VNA)
Incense offering ceremony is the most important part of the Hung Kings Temple Festival (Photo: VNA)
National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan attends the incense offering ceremony (Photo: VNA)
The opening ceremony of the festival to
commemorate the death of the Hung Kings will take place on April 14
night with a programme of singing, dancing and music on an imposing
stage of Vietnamese culture.
Preparations for the 2010 Hung Kings
Temple Festival and the celebration of the death anniversary of the Hung
Kings have been basically complete, said the organising board on April
10.
The first Viet Tri City Street Festival, in the midland province of Phu
Tho,
begins a ten-day national commemoration of the first rulers of Vietnam,
the Hung
Kings and the Hung King Temple Festival on April 14.
Thirteen Xoan singing clubs and 15 other art troupes from every corner
of northern midland Phu Tho province are performing at a festival that
opened Viet Tri city on April 14.
Hundreds of photos and items on Hung King worshipping rituals and over 500 antiquities from the era of the Hung Kings (estimated around 3,000 B.C) to the 19th century are on display at Hung Vuong Museum in Viet Tri city, the northern province of Phu Tho.
In Vietnam, the janitor of a pagoda (or temple) is usually an elderly person respected by the local community, who is selected by the community to do the work for many years. But it is even harder to be selected for the job at many temples in the Hung Kings Temple historical site in Phu Tho.
