Yen Bai - Right after the white buffalo slaughtering ceremony at the Dong Cuong Temple Festival in the Spring of At Ty 2025, at the moment of changing the watch on February 3 (ie January 6, At Ty year), at 0:00, in front of the main gate of Dong Cuong Temple, the Spring Prosperity Offering Ceremony took place so that all people and visitors could respectfully pray for a new year of prosperity, wealth, and peace.
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Mr. Mo - the head of Dong Cuong Temple, gives out lucky money to locals and tourists at the beginning of spring. |
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Dong Cuong Temple - National historical and cultural relic located in Ben Den village, Dong Cuong commune. This is a famous sacred temple worshiping the Second Mother of the Upper Realm - the second Mother of the Three Holy Mothers and is also a place to worship national heroes who contributed to the resistance war against the Yuan-Mongol army in the 18th century and the Tay leaders who heroically sacrificed their lives in the uprising against the French in the year of Giap Dan 1914.
According to custom, the opening ceremony of Dong Cuong Temple Festival is the buffalo slaughtering ceremony to worship the Mother Goddess, which is performed at the first moment of the first day of the year. The buffalo used for the sacrifice must be a large, healthy white male buffalo, carefully selected many months in advance. Coinciding with the ceremony at the main temple is the activity of distributing Mother Goddess's fortune in early spring, which has attracted thousands of people and tourists to worship, enjoy spring and appear in front of the main courtyard of Dong Cuong Temple to receive Mother Goddess's fortune in early spring from the hands of Mr. Mo - the head of incense at Dong Cuong Temple.
In the bags of Mau's gifts given to locals and tourists are rice, corn, beans, etc. with the belief of praying for a new year of good harvest, full houses of rice, and a prosperous family. Ms. Ha Thi Dung in Goc Quan village, Dong Cuong commune, Van Yen district shared: "Mau gives blessings to the people of Ban Hac village, to the villages and hamlets, so that our descendants of the Ha family can welcome the new year with a bountiful harvest and a prosperous business, so the people are very excited".
Thousands of people and tourists gathered at Dong Cuong temple to pray for Mother Goddess's blessings in early spring.
Legend has it that in Van Yen - a land of majestic mountains and rivers, at the beginning of the world, the sky and earth were in chaos, with storms and tempests, wild forests, summer floods, winter droughts. The Mother of the Upper Realm descended from the Heavens to take care of the 81 forest gates, and gave orders to the gods to guard the rivers, mountains, and forests. The Mother of the Upper Realm descended to earth, teaching the people how to make a living, teaching them how to grow rice and raise silkworms, finding the sticky rice variety, teaching the people how to sow rice, grow rice, and make terraced fields, so that the crops would be bountiful and the new rice season would be fragrant.
The people remember the grace of the Mother of the Upper Realm, build a temple to worship her, and in the new rice season, offer her a tray of fragrant sticky rice, and pray for her to bless her with good weather, favorable wind and rain, a bountiful rice harvest, and a happy and prosperous village. The sticky rice grains offered to the temple for the Mother to descend to witness her heart are then given to the people so that they will be blessed with good fortune all year round, with peace and prosperity. From the realm of the Royal Heavenly Mother of the Upper Realm, she returns to Van Yen, to the sacred land with the gods to bless the people with good weather, favorable wind and rain, fragrant flowers and sweet fruits.
Meritorious Artisan Dang Ngoc Anh - Deputy Director of the Institute of Research on Vietnamese Mother Goddess Religion said: "The practice of giving out Mother Goddess gifts in early spring is a cultural beauty that needs to be preserved and promoted so that future generations can understand and remember the origins of our Vietnamese people. Since then, all people have always been united, diligent, and enthusiastic in working and producing to have a bountiful harvest, full houses of rice, and warm and happy families."
The practice of giving out money to the Mother Goddess in early spring is a beautiful national cultural feature, with the meaning of praying for the Mother Goddess of the Mountain to continue to bestow blessings and health to the people, and to bless them with favorable weather and wind for a bountiful harvest. At the same time, it is an opportunity to continue educating the tradition of remembering the source of water and gratitude of the Tay people of Khao Van Yen, Yen Bai in particular, and the ethnic groups of Vietnam in general.
Through the distribution of Mau fortune in early spring, it is also to promote and introduce to people and tourists near and far the legend of a land of Van Yen in the beginning of the world, with wild forests, summer floods, winter droughts... Mau Thuong Ngan descended from the Heavens, ruled the land back to peace, together with the people built ramparts, trained in martial arts and soldiers, and then fought with the Tay chieftains and other ethnic groups against foreign invaders, keeping the border peaceful. Along with that is the effort and creativity in labor and production so that Van Yen has the beautiful and prosperous appearance as it is today.
Thu Trang
Source: http://baoyenbai.com.vn/16/345434/Linh-thieng-phat-loc-Mau-dau-xuan.aspx
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