Tran Temple Festival: Early Spring Rendezvous

Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Tran Dynasty (1225 - 2025), this year, the Tran Temple Festival at the special national relic site of the tombs and temples of the Tran Dynasty kings, Tien Duc commune (Hung Ha) continues to be held at the provincial level. In the series of festival activities, for the first time there will be a fair connecting the supply and demand of Tran businessmen and domestic and foreign enterprises. With careful preparation by the organizing committee, the festival days promise to be an impressive early spring destination for visitors from near and far.

The festival decoration and visual propaganda work at Tran Temple has been completed to serve local people and tourists coming to attend the festival.

Ready for organization

In the joyful and bustling atmosphere of the first days of spring, the special national relic site of the tombs and temples of the Tran Dynasty kings welcomes a large number of local people and visitors from all over to offer incense, pay tribute, and commemorate the great contributions of their ancestors. Celebrating the 800th anniversary of the founding of the Tran Dynasty, the atmosphere of preparation for the traditional festival here seems to be even more bustling. Aiming for a smooth and safe spring trip for visitors, the festival organizing committee has established 3 subcommittees: content, propaganda, and celebration subcommittee; reception and logistics subcommittee; and security and order subcommittee. In particular, focusing on arranging forces and means to ensure security and order, traffic safety, fire and explosion prevention and control at the locations where festival activities take place; traffic diversion, arrangement of parking areas for tourists' vehicles... At the same time, mobilize and guide restaurants and accommodation establishments to develop appropriate programs to support tourists attending the festival, combine improving the quality of tourist services, and publicly posting service prices.

A brilliant welcome gate on the road leading to the special national relic of the tombs and temples of the Tran dynasty kings.

In addition to the annual ritual and festival activities, this year's festival season also includes a fair connecting supply and demand of Tran businessmen and domestic and foreign enterprises in the spring of At Ty 2025, held for 9 days, from February 7 to 16 (January 10 to 18). In the area in front of Tran Temple, on an area of ​​over 1 hectare, the fair connecting supply and demand includes over 300 booths with about 50 FDI enterprises and many OCOP products from all over the country participating, which is an interesting event in this year's festival season.

Special national relic of the tombs and temples of Tran dynasty kings in Tien Duc commune (Hung Ha).

Immerse yourself in the spring festival atmosphere

According to traditional customs, on January 13, there will be a ceremony to open the temple, offer incense at the tombs of the Tran kings and a water procession with thousands of participants. These are the opening ceremonial activities for the series of activities taking place at the festival. After the opening ceremony on the evening of January 13, from January 14 to 17, a variety of festival activities will be held.

Meritorious artist Vu Xuan Thang, member of the Tran Temple Relic Management Board, informed: The Relic Management Board will be in charge of the phoenix-wing betel leaf wrapping contest on January 16 at the King Temple's central altar. Participating in the contest are villages in Tien Duc commune and some communes in Hung Ha district. This contest is both a festival and a ceremony because folk artists from 8 villages will wrap betel leaves, choosing the most beautiful pieces of betel leaves to offer to Buddha and Saints. Every festival, there is a tray of betel leaves wrapped in phoenix wings to offer to the king, the mother, the royal relatives, princesses and queens of the Tran Dynasty.

Mr. Hoang Dinh Nhung, Chairman of Tien Duc Commune People's Committee shared: People in the commune are very excited, actively participating, contributing to the success of the ceremonial and festival activities at Tran Temple Festival. For the festival activities, for many years now, competitions: fish dishes, making banh chung, and cooking rice have all had the participation of people from villages in Tien Duc Commune. Particularly for the fish dishes competition, to prepare for this unique and rare custom, many months before Tet, villages sent experienced people everywhere to select and buy big fish, usually grass carp, common carp, and silver carp. Fish to be offered to the king must meet all criteria such as not having dislocated scales, broken fins, or broken tails, must weigh at least 3.5 kg or more and be carefully selected.

QR codes to look up information about the festival are installed by the organizers in easy-to-see locations.

Traditional festivals are an opportunity for each person to express their love for their homeland as well as for their cultural heritage. We believe that with the careful preparation of the organizing committee, the spirit of active participation, and the preservation of cultural traditions of the people, the Tran Temple Festival is not only the pride of the Thai Binh people but also an opportunity for visitors from all over to pay their gratitude to the ancestors, kings, generals, royal relatives of the Tran Dynasty, and to educate the spirit of patriotism, national pride and self-respect.

Tu Anh

Source: https://baothaibinh.com.vn/tin-tuc/19/217624/le-hoi-den-tran-diem-hen-dau-xuan