An old man wearing a mask and dragon robe went to the field to plow at the 2024 Tich Dien Festival
Friday, February 16, 2024 11:33 AM (GMT+7)
On the morning of February 16 (the 7th day of the Lunar New Year), an old man from Doi Tin village dressed in a royal robe, playing the role of King Le Dai Hanh, went to the field and led a buffalo to plow during the Tich Dien ceremony, hoping for a new year of bountiful crops.
On the morning of February 16 (the 7th day of the Lunar New Year), at the field of Doi Tin village (Tien Son commune, Duy Tien town People's Committee, Ha Nam province), the Tich Dien festival was held in 2024.
Special drum performance to open the Tich Dien Doi Son festival 2024.
The Tich Dien Festival includes a drum procession and a procession of King Le Dai Hanh's spirit tablet from Long Doi Son Pagoda down to the foot of the mountain and joins the procession of the village's Thanh Hoang and the Doi Tam drum maker at the foot of Doi Mountain. The procession heads to the rice fields where King Le Dai Hanh plowed at the beginning of the year, encouraging people to grow rice and take care of agriculture .
Ms. Bui Thi Thom - Vice President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers' Union at the 2024 Tich Dien Festival.
The festival attracts thousands of visitors to attend and follow each plowed furrow.
The ceremony of reading the text before the altar of King Le Dai Hanh was presented by a prestigious elder of Doi Tam village.
At the 2024 Tich Dien festival, the Organizing Committee selected a local resident to recreate the scene of the King plowing.
According to tradition, the King would make three plowing cuts with the hope of a year of favorable weather and bountiful crops.
Young men and women in Doi Tin village sow the first seeds following the plows recreated by King Le Dai Hanh.
The Tich Dien ceremony is meant to worship Thanh Hoang, Than Nong, the gods of clouds, rain, thunder, and lightning to pray for favorable weather and bountiful crops, so it is also called Ha Dien Cau Bong. In the spring of 987, for the first time, King Le Dai Hanh and his mandarins plowed the fields in Doi Son and found a pot of gold. In 988, while plowing in Ban Hai, they found a pot of silver, so these fields are also called Kim Ngan Dien.
Pham Hung
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