Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Party and State leaders and people across the country offered incense to the national founders, Hung Kings, at the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site in Phu Tho province.
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates at an incense offering ceremony at the Thuong Temple in the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site (Source: VNA)
The incense offering ceremony is held on the 10th day of the third lunar month, which falls on April 25 this year (Source: VNA)
Ruling the country through 18 generations (2879-258BC), the Hung Kings taught locals how to grow wet rice. They chose Nghia Linh Mountain, the highest in the region, to perform rituals devoted to rice and sun deities to pray for lush crops. (In photo: PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates at the Thuong Temple in the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site - Source: VNA)
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and officials pay tribute to the Hung Kings at the Thuong Temple in the Hung Kings Temple relic site. The worship of Hung Kings was recognised as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012 (Photo: VNA)
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates at the Thuong Temple in the Hung Kings Temple relic site (Source: VNA)
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates at the incense offering ceremony (Source: VNA)
Some 2.5 million people flocked to the northern midland province of Phu Tho to celebrate the annual Hung Kings Temple Festival as of April 23 (the eight day of the third lunar month), said the organising board.
The palanquin and offering procession was organised by seven communes and wards surrounding the Hung Kings Temple Complex in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 23.
The worship of Hung Kings has become a cultural identity and a traditional principle of Vietnamese people, expressing gratitude for the ancestors’ merit in the foundation and protection of the country
An incense offering ceremony was held at the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site on Nghia Linh Mountain in the northern midland province of Phu Tho on April 25 or the tenth day of the third lunar month to commemorate the national founders, Hung Kings.