Opening of Tien Cong Festival 2025

On February 2 (January 5), at the national historical and cultural relic of Tien Cong Temple, Cam La Commune (Quang Yen Town), the opening ceremony of Tien Cong Festival 2025 took place, commemorating the 591st anniversary of the Tien Cong opening the land of Ha Nam Island (1434 - 2025). This is the largest and most special Spring festival in Ha Nam Island, held to commemorate the Tien Cong who discovered, reclaimed and established this island. Tien Cong Festival is also an occasion for descendants to celebrate the longevity of the elderly with a procession of the elderly to Tien Cong Temple.

Comrade Duong Van Hao, Vice Chairman of Quang Yen Town People's Committee, beat the drum to open the Tien Cong Festival 2025.

Tien Cong Temple is a place to worship 17 Tien Cong, who lived mainly by farming and fishing along the lake, along the Kim Nguu River, in Thang Long citadel and Nam Dinh province. In the 15th century, they and their families went down the Red River, to the Bach Dang estuary, gradually discovering mounds and clearing, building dikes, reclaiming land from the sea to have the developed Ha Nam island region as it is today.

Opening ceremony of Tien Cong Festival 2025.

Tien Cong Festival 2025 is an event within the program to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2025), respond to and welcome the National Tourism Year 2025; at the same time, to continue to effectively implement Resolution No. 17-NQ/TU dated October 30, 2023 of the Executive Committee of the Quang Ninh Provincial Party Committee on " Building and promoting cultural values, the strength of Quang Ninh people to become an endogenous resource, a driving force for rapid and sustainable development".

The delegation led the ceremony to the Tien Cong temple.

Through the Festival, we aim to promote, introduce and publicize the unique values of Tien Cong Festival - National Intangible Cultural Heritage; introduce the cultural beauty of the festival and the value of Tien Cong Temple relic complex and Tien Cong clans; the tradition of building dykes to reclaim land from the sea, developing the marine economy of the people of Ha Nam island, Quang Yen town. Thereby, arousing national pride, the spirit of great solidarity, preserving and promoting the values of cultural heritage, actively contributing to the construction and development of the socio-economy, building a new cultural life, building Quang Yen people to meet the requirements of sustainable development.

The elders were happy and excited when their children and grandchildren brought them to Tien Cong temple to perform the ceremony.

The Tien Cong Festival 2025 will take place over three days from February 2 to February 4 (from the 5th to the 7th of the first lunar month) with many cultural and sports activities and rich folk games. The most special is the ceremony of carrying the Elder Thuong in a peach hammock to the Tien Cong Temple, imbued with the culture of Thang Long at the seaport, which will take place on the main festival day, January 7. This year's Tien Cong Festival is organized on a scale of 3 collective processions with 35 Elder Thuong. Accordingly, those who are 80, 90, and 100 years old will sit on peach hammocks and be carried by their children and grandchildren to the Temple to perform the Tien Cong ceremony. In addition, there are more than 100 groups of Elder Thuong leading the ceremony to the Tien Cong Temple.

Mr. Duong Van Mui, 95 years old, in Cam La commune, had a longevity celebration at Tien Cong temple.

During the 3 days of Tien Cong festival, there will also be many cultural and sports activities interwoven such as: human chess, to tom diem, swing playing, duet singing, tug of war... rich in Tien Cong's identity and historical significance.

Art performances to celebrate the opening of Tien Cong Festival 2025.

Folk games take place on the opening day.

The Tien Cong Festival in Ha Nam island region has been preserved and promoted by the people for more than 300 years. In 2017, the Tien Cong Festival was honored as a national intangible cultural heritage. Every year, the Tien Cong Festival has become a unique tourism product of Quang Yen town, attracting 30,000-40,000 visitors. Maintaining the organization of the Festival is not only an opportunity for villagers to remember the merits of the Tien Cong, the first people to build the dike to establish the village, but also an opportunity for children to show filial piety to their parents, thereby educating the younger generations about the morality of "When drinking water, remember its source"; to together preserve and conserve the good traditional cultural values left by their ancestors.

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