Lam Kinh Festival, Thanh Hoa 2025

Lam Kinh Festival is held every year as a great tradition, expressing the gratitude of the next generation to the ancestors who have fought against foreign invaders and built the country. Besides the traditional ceremony, the festival also brings very special performances.

Lam Kinh Festival

Starting in 1995, Thanh Hoa province has organized the annual Lam Kinh Festival with a solemn provincial scale, this is the biggest festival in Thanh country and one of the biggest festivals in our country.

Activities at the festival

Lam Kinh festival is held for 3 days, from August 21-23 of the lunar calendar. The ceremony is conducted according to traditional rites, recreating many important events in the Le Dynasty such as performances of festival drums, festival chess, and palanquin processions. Among them are the rituals handed down from the reigns of King Le Thai To, Le Thai Tong, Le Nhan Tong, and Le Thanh Tong.

Incense offering and sacrifice ceremony at the temple of King Le Thai To, the tomb area, the shrines (Tho Xuan district), the temple of Le Lai (Ngoc Lac district), the later Le dynasty shrine, and the Le Loi monument (Thanh Hoa city) will take place in 2 days on the 21st and 22nd of the 8th lunar month. Incense offering ceremony for the death anniversary of Ba Dau on the top of Lam Son Mountain (Dau Mountain) on the 23rd day of the 8th lunar month according to traditional rituals.

The festival is held every year on a very grand scale

Lam Kinh Festival has elaborately invested performances, with the participation of hundreds of artists. The theatrical part recreated the imprints with "Lung Nhai swearing festival", "Le Lai saved Lord", "Liberated Dong Quan citadel", and "Le Thai To was crowned". The performance helps bring people back to the battles and events of the Lam Son uprising.

Lam Kinh festival is also a performance of traditional folk games of Thanh origin such as Xuan Pha, Chieng, Dragon dance, Binh Ngo, Sanh Ngo, and drum festival, ... Xuan Pha - an intangible cultural heritage The country has added specialty to the festival with dances, songs, music or weird masks along with mascot symbols representing the feudal mandarin level. The combination of performances shows the intense vitality and resilience of the performances in the cultural and spiritual life of the people.

Xuan Pha games

Meaning of the festival

Lam Kinh Festival has bold traditional folk characteristics that have made a mark on the land of Thanh Hoa, as well as contributed to preserving the culture of Vietnam. The festival is an opportunity to pay tribute to and honor the hero Le Loi, the Le kings, the generals, and the people who have contributed to building and defending the country.

This is also to educate the tradition of loving the motherland to love the country. Thereby enhancing the spirit of solidarity, striving and building the country to become more civilized, rich, and beautiful.

At the same time, the festival also promotes, propagates, and attracts visitors to the Lam Kinh relic. Since then, it has attracted the attention of investors and contributed to the development of Thanh Hoa province's economy - culture - and tourism.

Lam Kinh Festival

About Lam Kinh historical complex

Started in the early decades of the 15th century, along with Dong Kinh - the political, economic, and cultural center of the country under the post-Le dynasty, Lam Kinh relic includes many architectural works serving religious functions, gratitude to the ancestors of the late Le dynasty, is the resting place of kings and queens.

Lam Kinh relic is also a place to keep important historical imprints of a heroic period in the nation's history. The historical value of Lam Kinh is shown as a "History Museum" about the Lam Son uprising.

Six centuries have passed, with many ups and downs in the country's history, Lam Kinh, a symbol of national pride in a heroic historical period against the invaders and the construction of the Dai Dai nation still retains its historical, cultural, architectural, and artistic values preserved, honored and kept.

Lam Kinh Palace

The Lam Kinh festival has become a bridge between the present and the past, helping to preserve the country's traditional culture. If you get the chance to travel to Vietnam, especially Thanh Hoa, will not miss this festival!