Hung Temple

Hung Temple

Hung Temple is the general name of the Hung Temple Historical Relic Area - a temple complex, The pagoda worships the Hung Kings and the king's royal family on Nghia Linh mountain, (Viet Tri, Phu Tho), associated with the Hung King's Anniversary - Hung Temple Festival is held at that location every year on March 10 lunar calendar. Currently, according to published scientific documents, most agree that the architectural foundation of Hung Temple began to be built during the reign of King Dinh Tien Hoang. By the Later Le Dynasty (15th century), it was completely built to the current scale. Going up from the foot of the mountain, through the temple gate, the tourist's stop is Ha Temple, which is said to be the place where Au Co gave birth to a sac of a hundred eggs. Those hundred eggs gave birth to a hundred children, fifty followed their father into the sea, forty-nine followed their mother up the mountain. The son who stayed behind became king, taking the name Hung Vuong (first). Past the Ha temple is the Trung temple, where the Hung kings used it as a meeting place to discuss with the Lac marquis and Lac generals. On the top of the mountain is the Thuong Temple and the sixth Hung Vuong mausoleum (known in folk as the tomb of the ancestors). From the Thuong temple to the southwest is the Well temple, where there is a stone well with clear water all year round. Legend has it that in the past, princesses Tien Dung and Ngoc Hoa, children of the eighteenth Hung King, often came to wash their hair there. Hung Temple Festival includes cultural and artistic activities of traditional ritual nature and other folk cultural activities... The remaining ritual cultural activities to this day are the palanquin procession. king and incense offering ceremony. According to Hung Vuong's Ngoc genealogy, recorded during Hong Duc's post-Le dynasty, from the Dinh dynasty, Le dynasty, Ly dynasty, Tran dynasty and then later Le, there was still the same incense and smoke in the temple, here people from all over the country came to worship to commemorate. The merits of the ancient Holy Patriarch... Vietnamese folk literature talks about the Hung Temple festival as follows: "No matter who goes back and forth, remember the death anniversary of the ancestors on the 10th of the third month". Source: Phu Tho Tourism Promotion Information Center

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