Tran Thuong Temple Festival

Tran Thuong Temple Festival Tran Thuong Temple belongs to Tran Thuong village, Nhan Dao commune, now Tran Hung Dao commune, Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province. The temple is a typical monument of Ha Nam province and the whole country, converging many values ​​of cultural and artistic cultural and artistic history, has long been known for many people. The temple of the National Hero of the National Assembly Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan and his family and the generals in the resistance war against Nguyen Mong troops in the thirteenth century.  "In August anniversary of Father, March of the death anniversary of the mother". For generations, this place with the localities worshiped Tran Hung Dao, the festival on the middle of August (lunar calendar), from 16-20 August lunar calendar, especially on August 20, the day of Dai Vuong died. Folk has the saying: "Sinh silver life, Tran Thuong waterfall, homeland Bao Loc". On the festival, from the lifetime of silver, Chi Linh, Hai Duong to Tran Thuong, Ly Nhan and Ha Nam temples to Bao Loc -Nam Dinh pilgrims according to the path of worship, honoring the national hero, has been traced as a "holy" level, bestow good things, looking forward to doing good deeds. Tran Thuong Temple annually opens from August 18 to 20 (lunar calendar) to attract a large number of people and tourists from all over the world. During the festival, many unique and unique folklore activities took place. These rituals both mean favorable rain, wind, "Phong Dang, Hoa Coc", "National Thai people", reminded the morality "Drink water to remember the source". Especially from the year of Canh Dan (2010), the People's Committee of Ha Nam province decided to organize a large -scale Tran Thuong temple salary ceremony on the occasion of the full moon in January of the lunar calendar. The first -year salary festival at Tran Thuong Temple is to preserve and promote the values ​​of cultural heritage, and at the same time propagate and educate the patriotic tradition to fight against foreign invaders of our fathers, especially in the Tran dynasty, to encourage the people to promote the moral tradition of drinking water to remember the source, entering the new year people enthusiastically labor, study and work. In 2016, Tran Thuong Temple Festival was recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage. The organization of the festival is to educate and promote the traditional cultural values ​​of the homeland about the tradition of fighting against foreign invaders, the spirit of self -reliance in the construction and defense of the country of the Royal National Assembly of Hung Dao Dai Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan. At the same time, contributing to introducing, promoting and enhancing the position of the special national monument to Tran Thuong temple to the people and tourists from all over the world./.