On the opening ceremony of the Hung Kings Temple Pageant in Phu Tho province on April 9. (Picture: VNA)

Phu Tho (VNA) – The Hung Kings Temple Pageant, one of many nation’s largest annual cultural and non secular occasions to commemorate its legendary founders, opened within the northern province of Phu Tho on April 9.

This 12 months, the pageant and an related tradition and tourism programme are set to happen in Viet Tri metropolis – which homes the renown temple – in addition to varied different districts and townships throughout the province from April 9 to 18 (or the first to the tenth day of the third lunar month).

Important rituals in the course of the pageant embody ceremonies on the temple to supply incense to Lac Lengthy Quan and Au Co – the progenitors of Vietnamese folks.

Nguyen Dac Thuy, Director of the provincial Division of Tradition, Sports activities, and Tourism, stated that this 12 months’s festive actions are carefully linked with tourism promotion, together with performances of Xoan singing, a volleyball event, a commerce honest and exhibition of merchandise beneath the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme, and a high-altitude fireworks show on the night of April 17.

The Ancestral Land Cultural and Tourism Week is a spotlight with varied actions corresponding to exhibitions on the Phu Tho Library and Hung Kings Museum, the road music programme “Viet Tri Livemusic” in Viet Tri metropolis, and a music pageant of native folks songs.

The commemoration of the Hung Kings is a nationwide vacation that takes place yearly on the tenth day of the third lunar month, which falls on April 18 this 12 months. The observe of worshiping them in Phu Tho was recognised by UNESCO as a part of the world’s intangible cultural heritage in 2012./.