Preserving "ancient features" in the At Ty Autumn Festival

The Autumn Festival is a ritual to thank heaven and earth, the local gods and ancestors for blessing the country with favorable weather, national peace and prosperity, and favorable business for the people.

The Autumn Festival is a ritual to thank heaven and earth, the local gods and ancestors for blessing the country with favorable weather, national peace and prosperity, and favorable business for the people.

On October 8, at Lac Giao Communal House Historical Site, Buon Ma Thuot Ward, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Dak Lak Province held the 2025 At Ty Autumn Festival.

The Autumn Festival at Lac Giao Communal House has been held annually for decades by the Dak Lak provincial cultural sector and the people of Buon Ma Thuot city, now Buon Ma Thuot ward. The ceremony was held in a solemn and sacred atmosphere, attracting a large number of delegates and local people to attend.

The Autumn Te Festival is a ritual to thank heaven and earth, the local gods and ancestors for blessing favorable weather, national peace and prosperity, and people's business. The Autumn Te Festival is not simply a spiritual belief activity in the community, but more than anything, it also carries the traditional cultural characteristics of the Vietnamese people that have been preserved for many generations, and is the pride of the land and people of Dak Lak in general, and Buon Ma Thuot ward in particular.

Lac Giao Communal House, the place of worship of the first founding hero Dao Duy Tu, who was appointed by the Nguyen Dynasty as the God of Lac Giao village in 1932, is a place to remember the merits of the ancestors who founded the village and the communal house in the early days. Since then, the people of Buon Ma Thuot city, now Buon Ma Thuot ward, have always preserved, maintained, and developed the historical and cultural values ​​of Lac Giao Communal House in particular and the fine traditional cultural values ​​that their ancestors have worked hard to build.

The ceremony was performed by the Nam Quan worship team according to traditional rituals, offering gifts and incense to commemorate the ancestors.

In the solemn and sacred atmosphere of the 2025 Autumn Festival, delegates and people together offered incense to thank heaven and earth, the local gods, and ancestors for blessing favorable weather, favorable business, and national peace and prosperity.

Performing the traditional Autumn Offering Ceremony is to contribute to preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, reviewing the fine cultural traditions left by ancestors, enriching the cultural and spiritual life of the people, building an advanced Vietnamese culture with a strong national identity. At the same time, it aims to introduce and promote the historical relic of Dinh Lac Giao in association with tourism development through the traditional Autumn Offering Ceremony, helping each person have more faith in a good life, towards the values ​​of truth, goodness, and beauty...

After the ceremony, the Tay Nguyen Folk Song-Cheo Club performed many unique folk songs, Cheo, Quan Ho, etc., contributing to making the atmosphere of the ceremony more bustling and exciting.

Below are solemn images at the 2025 Autumn Festival at Lac Giao Communal House Historical Site.

Lac Giao Communal House was originally made of bamboo and thatch, following the custom of Kinh people who came to settle far from their homeland. In 1932, the communal house was rebuilt in the shape of the letter "mon".

Lac Giao Communal House is the first communal house built by Kinh people in Dak Lak province.

Lac Giao Communal House, a place of worship for the first founding hero Dao Duy Tu, who was appointed by the Nguyen Dynasty as the village god of Lac Giao in 1932, is a place to remember the merits of the ancestors who founded the village and the communal house in the early days.

Lac Giao Communal House was ranked as a National Historical Relic by the Ministry of Culture (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) in Decision No. 168VH/QD dated March 2, 1990.

Every year, after the full moon of the eighth lunar month, at the Lac Giao Communal House Historical Relic, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Dak Lak province organizes the Autumn Offering Ceremony.

The Autumn Offering Ceremony took place in a solemn and sacred atmosphere.

The Autumn Festival is a ritual to thank heaven and earth, the local gods and ancestors for blessing the country with favorable weather, national peace and prosperity, and favorable business for the people.

The Autumn Festival is not simply a spiritual religious activity in the community, but more than that, it also carries the traditional cultural characteristics of the Vietnamese people that have been preserved for generations.

In the solemn and sacred atmosphere of the 2025 Autumn Festival, delegates and people together offered incense to thank heaven and earth, the local gods, and ancestors for blessing favorable weather, favorable business, and national peace and prosperity.

Delegates offered incense to thank heaven and earth, local gods, and ancestors for blessing them with favorable weather, favorable business, and national peace and prosperity.

The elders are local people who offer incense to commemorate their ancestors.

After the ceremony, the Tay Nguyen Folk Song-Cheo Club performed many unique folk songs, Cheo, Quan Ho, etc., contributing to making the atmosphere of the ceremony more bustling and exciting.

The Tay Nguyen Folk Song-Cheo Club performs many folk songs.

The Tay Nguyen Folk Song-Cheo Club performs many Quan Ho performances.

In Lac Giao communal house yard, there is a decades-old banyan tree that shades the whole yard.

The banyan tree is so big that dozens of people can hug it.

The banyan tree spreads its branches to shade the whole communal house yard.

Performing the traditional Autumn Offering Ceremony not only contributes to preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, reviewing the fine cultural traditions left by ancestors, but also introduces and promotes the Lac Giao Communal House Historical Relic associated with tourism development.

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