COVID-19 prevention prioritised at Hung Kings Temple Festival
For the Hung Kings Temple Festival to take place safely and efficiently this year, authorities of the northern province of Phu Tho has directed relevant units to build detailed plans ensuring conditions to thoroughly implement COVID-19 prevention and control measures.
A palanquin procession at a previous Hung Kings Temple festival (Source: VNA)
Phu Tho (VNA) – For the Hung Kings Temple Festivalto take place safely and efficiently this year, authorities of the northernprovince of Phu Tho has directed relevant units to build detailed plansensuring conditions to thoroughly implement COVID-19 prevention and controlmeasures.
The Hung Kings are commemorated each year on the 10th day ofthe third lunar month, which falls on April 21 this year, as an occasion for thenation to express gratitude to the ancestors.
As directed, the Phu Tho Department of Culture, Sports andTourism will be in charge of completing the overall plan and guidingcommunications work.
The management board of the Hung Kings Temple relic site inViet Tri city – the venue of the event – will build the contents for relatedritual ceremonies. It will also join the provincial Health Department indisinfecting the site before and during the festival and in conductingcommunications campaigns to raise public awareness on pandemic prevention.
In addition to ritual ceremonies, a few folk culturalactivities, including a bonze drum beating event and banh chung (square,glutinous rice cake) and banh giay (round, glutinous rice cake) making contest,will be held at the upcoming festival due to COVID-19.
Among the traditional rites, incense and flower offeringceremonies are scheduled to take place on April 17 and 21 (the 6th and 10thdays of the third lunar month).
Normally including myriad festive activities, the festivalwas cancelled last year due to the pandemic. It welcomed over 7 millionvisitors in 2019.
Legend has it that the eldest son of Lac Long Quan (son ofKinh Duong Vuong) and Au Co (the fairy daughter of De Lai) was made king. Henamed the country Van Lang and set up the capital in Phong Chau (modern-dayViet Tri city), beginning 18 dynasties of the Hung Kings.
The kings chose Nghia Linh Mountain, the highest in theregion, to perform rituals devoted to the rice and sun deities to pray forhealthy crops.
To honour their substantial contributions, a complex oftemples dedicated to the kings was built on Nghia Linh Mountain, and the tenthday of the third lunar month serves as the national commemorative anniversaryfor the kings.
The worshipping rituals of the Hung Kings was recognised asa UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2012./.
The Hung Kings Temple historical relic site in Viet Tri city, the northern midland province of Phu Tho, welcomed over 7 million visitors during the Hung Kings Temple Festival from April 5-14.
Activities within this year’s annual festival of the Hung Kings’ Temple, which falls on April 2, will be cancelled due to the acute respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), according to authorities of the northern province of Phu Tho.
Only ritual ceremonies will be held at the Hung Kings Temple Festival in the northern province of Phu Tho this year due to COVID-19, heard a meeting of local authorities on February 23.
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A palanquin procession at a previous Hung Kings Temple festival (Source: VNA) 
