The Hung Kings' Commemoration Festival 2025 will take place solemnly at Au Lac Temple

(LĐ online) - According to the plan of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Lam Dong, the Hung Kings' Commemoration Festival in 2025 will take place on April 6 and 7 (ie March 9 and 10, At Ty year) at Au Lac Temple in Prenn Waterfall Tourist Area - Da Lat.

Procession ceremony at Au Lac Temple in 2023

Accordingly, the Hung Kings' Commemoration Festival is a cultural and religious event organized at the provincial level, aimingto educate the patriotic tradition of "When drinking water, remember its source", deeply grateful to the Hung Kings who built the country and the ancestors who fought bravely against foreign invaders to protect the country.

Thereby, introducing the quintessence of traditional culture of the nation such as: worship rituals, processions, folk arts, folk games, folk cuisine ... contributing to preserving and promoting the national cultural identity.

At the same time, promote Au Lac Temple on the top of Phuong Hoang mountain as one of the Hung Kings' memorial areas with a scale and architecture that quite comprehensively simulates the Hung King relic site in the ancestral land of Phu Tho .

Performing folk songs, preserving national cultural heritage at Hung Kings Commemoration Festival

The festival takes place with many activities, specifically: Competition to decorate offering trays, flower arrangement competition, flower basket decoration competition to offer to Hung King; Announcement ceremony; ritual to carry offerings; traditional sacrifice ceremony and incense offering to the National Ancestor at Thuong Temple; Incense offering ceremony to mother Au Co - father Lac Long Quan at Trung Temple and Ha Temple.

Bamboo dance at Hung King Commemoration Festival

The festival includes many activities such as: Folk art performances, folk songs of 3 regions, amateur music performances; folk games, climbing greasy poles, blindfolded pot smashing, rice cooking competition, blindfolded duck catching, chess competition; culinary culture space, performance and sale of traditional dishes; Vietnamese tea art space; calligraphy space and folk painting exhibition.

Activities will be coordinated and organized solemnly and thoughtfully so that the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day becomes a spiritual and cultural activity of the whole community, affirming that this is an important national holiday of the people of Lam Dong ethnic groups.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/xa-hoi/202503/le-hoi-gio-to-hung-vuong-nam-2025-se-dien-ra-trang-trong-tai-den-tho-au-lac-84b23b1/