About the city of the river junction

The legend of Hung King worship tells that in the past, people did not know how to plow and plant rice, but only lived on tree roots, wild vegetables, and wild animal meat. Seeing that the land along the river after each flood, the land was filled with alluvium, making it more fertile, they called people to find a way to build banks to retain water.

One day, King Hung's daughters followed the people to fish by the river and saw flocks of birds flying around the beach. Suddenly, a bird dropped a rice flower on Mi Nuong's hair. She brought the rice flower back to tell her father. King Hung then thought it was a good omen and told Mi Nuong to go to the beach to pick the rice flowers and bring them back.

In the spring, King Hung and his people brought the seeds to the fields. The King went down to the fields and used a sharp stick to poke holes to plant the seeds. When the seedlings grew, the people did not know how to plant them, so King Hung pulled the seedlings up, brought them to the fields, and waded down to plant them for the people to see. The Mi Nuong and the people saw this and followed suit.

Later generations, people remembered King Hung's merits and honored him as the ancestor of agriculture. They built the Tich Dien altar facing the southwest right on the promontory where King Hung sat when teaching people to plant rice. They placed food storage on Lua hill, stored straw on Straw hill, and named the market Cho Lu.

The 2024 Hung King Festival teaches people to plant rice, held in early spring of the year of the Dragon, with a space stretching along the land of origin; creating a spiritual and cultural highlight for the festival city returning to the nation's roots.

This is also the basis for Phu Tho province to build a heritage dossier to submit to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism for approval of the festival "King Hung teaches people to plant rice" as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, contributing to planning the relic site to become an attractive tourist destination, serving the people and visitors from all over.

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