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When it comes to the capital's land, Hanoi's three six streets, tea with lemongrass, sidewalk iced tea... are the most ideal things. Aside from its thousand-year history, Hanoi attracts tourists with various events, Ba Xa Temple festival being one of the most prominent in August. Let's read the article to find out more about the Ba Xa Temple celebration in Hanoi and what makes it unique.
About Ba Xa Temple Festival
On the 12th day of the 6th lunar month, the Ba Xa Temple Festival is held in Minh Duc commune, Ung Hoa district (Hanoi). For a long time, the event has been a tradition in five villages: Thinh Cau, Thinh Bang, Thinh Than, Thinh Thuong, and Thinh Ha, and people from all over the world flock to attend.
Ba Xa Temple Festival
According to the elders, this location was once regarded the field's navel, with only one crop grown throughout the year, although it was still risky. Residents are poor and unhappy in white fields with clean water. Until there was a Mac named Trau Trang who taught people in the area to stop the water and grow appropriate rice kinds for each season. As a result, people are prospering, and the population is becoming more successful and wealthy. People in the neighborhood contributed and raised money to erect a temple and honor him as the village's good deity when he died, and since then, people here have a habit of cavalry with the name: Buffalo.
Saint Mac Trau's temple is located in the heart of five villages: Thinh Bang, Thinh Cau, Thinh Than, Thinh Ha, and Thinh Thuong. The temple's face faces east, overlooking the enormous lotus lake. The snake is circling on the left and right sides of the temple, one side is a tributary of the Nhue River, and the other side is a winding main road like a dragon. The floor plan of the Mac Trau sacred temple is in the style of "foreign domestic and foreign affairs." There is an angled brick road leading from the main road to the courtyard. There are many stone buffaloes, stone horses, stone dogs, and stone elephants on both sides of the road and under the shadow of ancient trees that look majestic but also rustic. The main hall appears to be quite wide and is separated into three tiers, therefore it is often referred to as the nom de trois palaces.
Ba Xa Temple Festival
Many sophisticated themes, such as flowers, four spirits, fish passing Vu Mon, are carved on the windbreaks, trusses, and especially the hammock doors. There are exhibits of the tutelary god and 5 incense bowls from 5 villages in the inner palace, as well as many sacrifices: bowls of buu, fragments of umbrellas, palanquin processions, snakes... On both sides of the main hall, facing the courtyard, are two rows of five-room homes, each representing one of the five villages used to welcome guests and conduct ceremonies during each festival...
Main activities of Ba Xa Temple Festival
There are four seasons of incense and incense at Ba Xa Temple. The yearly festival on June 12 is the busiest and most joyous. And, as has become customary, a large event is held every five years. People in Minh Duc's five villages will raise five calves in preparation for the celebration. These calves will be examined before to the festival. The animal that wins the award will be chosen to launch a feast the next day to slay the gods, and the meat will be split equally among the five communities to reap the advantages.
Ba Xa Temple Festival
On the first day of the celebration, June 12, the entire hamlet was buzzing from early in the morning, jubilantly tugging each other to the temple. People from five villages form a procession with drums and flags to bring the gods worshiped in their villages to the temple to attend the festival. The water procession begins once all five communities have gathered at the shrine. 5 processions traveled to Nhue River to do the water procession, still in the sequence that I went before you. A flag team leads each procession. The palanquin will be followed by the music team, a bowl of incense and incense, and a palanquin bearing a water jar. The water jar is surrounded by a white cloth, the mouth is covered with a red square cloth. Going to the riverbank of 5 villages, each village will get enough water to go back to do the carpentry ceremony.
Following the woodcutter ceremony, there will be sacrifices to the gods, followed by sacrifices of families, clans, and tourists from all over the world. While the ritual is respectfully held at the temple, on the lake, and on the temple grounds, there are numerous entertaining games such as lion dance, dragon dance, wrestling, and cock fighting. The game of catching water and breaking rice, however, is the most interesting and draws the most watchers. Rice and water bags will be hanging on a rack. Whoever hits the rice first will be rewarded. Anyone who hits the water bag will cause it to rupture, splashing on the person and causing spectators to giggle.
After the woodcutter ceremony, there will be sacrifices to the gods, in turn 5 villages will make sacrifices, followed by sacrifices of families, clans and tourists from all over the world. While the ceremony takes place solemnly at the temple itself, in the lake and outside the temple grounds, there are many exciting games such as lion dance, dragon dance, wrestling, cock fighting. But the most exciting, attracting the most viewers is the game of grabbing water and smashing rice. Rice bags and bags of water will be hung on a rack. Whoever can hit the rice will be rewarded. Anyone who hits the water bag, the water bag will burst, splashing on the person, making the bystanders burst into laughter.
Ba Xa Temple Festival
Ba Xa temple festival has long become a custom of 5 villages: Thinh Bang, Thinh Cau, Thinh Thuong, Thinh Than, Thinh Ha and many visitors from all over the world come to attend. To meet the maximum for the accommodation of tourists from all over the world, many local people have gathered near the temple to build houses and set up shops to form a busy trading place. That is why, not far from Ba Xa temple today, there is a place called: Cong Than Street.
We hope that by providing relevant information on the Ba Xa Temple Festival in Hanoi, visitors would have a better understanding of the capital's culture and customs. If you have the opportunity to visit Hanoi, do not miss our city tour Hanoi, Hanoi discovery tour. We are confident that you will have an exciting and amazing capital discovery excursion!
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