The procession to Nghia Linh mountain (Photograph: VNA)

Phu Tho (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and
different officers supplied incense in commemoration of the Hung Kings, the legendary
founders of Vietnam, at Kinh Thien Palace on Nghia Linh Mountain in Viet Tri
metropolis, the northern province of Phu Tho, on April 18 (the tenth day of the
third lunar month).

The incense providing ceremony was held within the particular nationwide
historic relic website of Hung Kings Temple.

PM Chinh, different officers of the Get together, State, ministries,
sectors, central businesses and localities, together with folks from nationwide
attended the occasion, expressing deep gratitude to the ancestors who based the nation,
paving the best way for the development and growth of a stupendous, affluent,
and civilised Vietnam these days.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and different officers provide incense in commemoration of the Hung Kings, the legendary founders of Vietnam, on the Hung Kings Temple particular nationwide historic relic website (Photograph; VNA)

Following that, the delegation supplied incense on the Tomb of
the Hung Kings and laid wreaths on the bas-relief depicting President Ho Chi
Minh speaking to troopers of the Tien Phong (Pioneer) Brigade on the Gieng
Temple Intersection.

After the historic Dien Bien Phu Victory in Could 1954 and the signing
of the Geneva Accords in July the identical 12 months, Group 308 of the brigade returned to take
over the capital of Hanoi from French colonialists. At Gieng Temple on
September 19, 1954, President Ho Chi Minh talked to the troopers on their approach
to Hanoi, underlining that the Hung Kings based the nation and Vietnamese
folks should collectively shield it.

The incense providing ceremony is crucial among the many actions of the Hung Kings Temple (Photograph: VNA)

The
incense providing ceremony is crucial among the many actions of the
Hung Kings Temple Competition and the Tradition and Tourism Week of the Ancestral Land 2024, held from
April 9 to 18 on the historic relic website and different localities in Phu Tho
province.

Legend has it that Lac Lengthy Quan (son of Kinh
Duong Vuong and Than Lengthy Nu) married Au Co (the fairy daughter of De Lai). Au
Co gave start to a pouch stuffed with 100 eggs, which hatched right into a
hundred sons. Nonetheless, quickly thereafter, Lac Lengthy Quan and Au Co separated. Lac
Lengthy Quan went to the coast with 50 of the youngsters whereas Au Co went to the
highlands with the remainder.

Their eldest son was made king, who named the
nation Van Lang and arrange the capital in Phong Chau (now Viet Tri metropolis in Phu
Tho province), starting the 18 reigns of the Hung Kings. The kings selected Nghia Linh Mountain, the very best
within the area, to carry out rituals dedicated to rice and solar deities to hope for
bumper crops.

To honour their nice contributions, a posh of
temples devoted to them was constructed on Nghia Linh Mountain, and the tenth day of
the third lunar month, which falls on April 18 this 12 months, serves because the
nationwide commemorative anniversary for the kings.

The worship of the Hung Kings, intently associated to
the Vietnamese folks’s custom of ancestor worship, was recognised as half
of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2012./.