Unique Yao Chi Palace Banquet Festival in Tay Ninh

On the evening of October 6, at the Cao Dai Holy See, Tay Ninh province, nearly 200,000 followers, tourists, and people inside and outside the province attended the Dieu Tri Palace Banquet Festival in the year of At Ty 2025. Attending the ceremony were representatives of the leaders of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tay Ninh province, along with departments, branches, and organizations inside and outside the province.

The main ceremonies of the Dieu Tri Palace Banquet took place in the inner city of the Cao Dai Tay Ninh Holy See.

Speaking at the ceremony, Grand Master Thai Con Thanh, Acting Grand Master of the Cao Dai Holy See of Tay Ninh, expressed his gratitude to the Party and State leaders for their attention and creating favorable conditions for the Holy See to solemnly organize the Dieu Tri Palace Banquet. Thanks to that, Cao Dai followers have the conditions to practice their religion and build a prosperous, happy and peaceful life.

Master Thai Con Thanh said that over the past year, all Cao Dai followers have strictly practiced their religion in accordance with its principles and guidelines, focused on cultivating personal morality and encouraging good deeds, practicing humanity, solidarity, love, strictly abiding by the law, and living a good life. In particular, the Church has actively participated in social work, charity, and building a healthy cultural lifestyle. Since the beginning of the year, the Cao Dai Church of Tay Ninh Holy See has mobilized donations to support social security activities with a total value of over 28.4 billion VND.

Congratulating at the ceremony, Vice Chairman of Tay Ninh Provincial People's Committee Doan Trung Kien highly appreciated the dignitaries, officials, and followers of religions in general and Cao Dai religion in particular for always strictly following the Party's policies and the State's laws and actively participating in local socio-economic development movements.

The dragon dance ritual has become a unique cultural feature that cannot be missed by followers and tourists from all over the world when attending the Yen Dieu Tri Palace Festival.

Vice Chairman of Tay Ninh Provincial People's Committee Doan Trung Kien emphasized that in recent years, with the high determination of the entire political system, under the dynamic and creative leadership of the entire Party Committee and government of Tay Ninh province, the socio-economic situation of the province continues to grow. The structure has shifted in the right direction, investment attraction activities in the province have achieved many positive results, and social security issues of the people have been given attention. The political system from the province to the grassroots level has been regularly consolidated; political security, social order and safety have been maintained, business activities and employment of workers in the area have been stable and developed.

That result is partly thanks to the contributions of religious organizations operating in the province, including the Cao Dai Holy See of Tay Ninh, which has done well in mobilizing religious dignitaries, officials, and followers to comply with the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and to practice religion in accordance with the Charter, Internal Rules, and Regulations of the Church, building a great national unity bloc, creating an important driving force for the local socio-economic development process.

Mr. Doan Trung Kien emphasized that the 2025 Dieu Tri Palace Banquet Festival was solemnly organized by the Church and had humanistic significance. With its beauty and unique features, the festival not only attracted tens of thousands of pilgrims, but also many delegations from provinces and cities at home and abroad to attend. It was a respect and wish for everyone to have a better life, contributing to preserving and promoting the cultural identity, ethical traditions, and looking back to the roots of the Vietnamese people.

Many people had a warm and happy Mid-Autumn Festival night with performances imbued with traditional culture.

The Dieu Tri Palace Banquet Festival is the biggest festival of the year of the Cao Dai Holy See of Tay Ninh, besides the Great Festival of Duc Chi Ton in the first lunar month. This is an occasion to pray for favorable weather, national peace and prosperity, and to preserve and promote unique cultural and spiritual values.

The highlight of the ceremony is the ceremony of the Buddha Mother and the Nine Fairies, the Long Ma dance, especially the Four Sacred Animals dance including the Incense Dragon, the Jade Unicorn, the Turtle and the Phoenix. In addition, there are also the Phoenix dance, music performances by the Ethnic Band and the colorful parade from Bao An Tu to the Holy Temple, creating a solemn yet colorful atmosphere, attracting the excitement of tens of thousands of participants.

Not only having religious significance, the Festival has become a typical cultural festival of Tay Ninh, a spiritual and cultural meeting place on the occasion of the Full Moon Festival in August, attracting hundreds of thousands of pilgrims and international tourists to attend.

In particular, this year the ceremony displayed 117 fruit offering stalls elaborately shaped with vegetables and fruits in the shape of dragons, phoenixes and delicate flowers and leaves, prepared by Cao Dai Church units across the country. After the ceremony, all the fruit offerings were given to children on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival, demonstrating the spirit of sharing and community solidarity.

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