Du Yen Temple

Du Yen Temple, Chi Tien commune is located in a spiritual land on a high hill, with lush green trees; At the foot is a clear blue lake all year round. The temple faces the Thao River, which is calm day and night, accumulating alluvium. This long dike strip is the provincial road, an important traffic artery of Thanh Ba district.

Du Yen Temple, Chi Tien commune is located in a spiritual land on a high hill, with lush green trees; At the foot is a clear blue lake all year round. The temple faces the Thao River, which is calm day and night, accumulating alluvium. This long dike strip is the provincial road, an important traffic artery of Thanh Ba district.

In 1993, Du Yen Temple was recognized by the State as a national historical relic site. In 2003, Du Yen temple was restored to include a 5-compartment front hall and a 3-compartment harem like today. In the temple, there are still many precious artifacts such as: altar, palanquin, halberd, precious bowl, bronze plaque, Nom writing on both sides... The statues are all carved from wood. In addition to the ordinations of the Dinh, Ly, Tran, and Le dynasties, this is the only temple that retains a genealogy recording two thousand years of development of a clan in Thanh Ba land.

According to Ngoc Pha, in the past, in the Thao Giang area, at Bong Chau site, now Tien Chau village, Chi Tien commune, Thanh Ba district, Phu Tho province, there was a Nguyen family who lived a gentle and kind life and worked hard to do business. has great reputation in the region. Thanks to God's blessing, they gave birth to a daughter named Hanh Nuong. From a young age, Hanh Nuong was always well cared for and raised by her parents. She is a strangely intelligent girl, with stunning beauty, a gentle personality, eager to study literature, and passionate about martial arts. Many talented men in the village proposed, but she all refused, not wanting to get dusty to keep herself pure. She set up a flag to rally the righteous, practiced archery and sword day and night, and was known far and wide as the goddess who descended to earth. At that time, in the 40s AD, the Eastern Han invaders led by Governor To Dinh brazenly and brutally brought troops to occupy our country.

When Hai Ba Trung raised the flag of insurrection in Me Linh, she chose 92 insurgents from Bong Chau to return with Hai Ba Trung. Seeing that Hanh Nuong was intelligent, talented in literature and martial arts, and was able to lead the army to win, Hai Ba Trung gave her the title of Princess Ngoc Loan and the title of Leader of the Front Army. After defeating the To Dinh enemy, female general Nguyen Thi Hanh returned to visit her hometown, where she held a banquet to welcome the army and reward the villagers. The merit festival was held on a promontory shaped like a white tiger lying drinking water on the banks of the Thao River. Here later, the villagers built a temple called Du Yen palace (today Du Yen temple, Chi Tien commune). Since then, every year on the full moon day of January, the villagers hold a prayer festival to remember her gratitude and pray for good weather and good weather for the family to be prosperous and happy.

Du Yen Temple Festival is one of Thanh Ba's typical cultural events, attracting tens of thousands of domestic and foreign tourists each year. The festival opened with a ceremony and a festival held very solemnly. The offerings to the Mother Goddess are mainly vegetarian cakes and fruits... divided into 6 sections, each with 2 trays, carried by 2 young men and placed on the altar for the elders to pray for. During the prayers, there are fairy dances and money-making dances mixed in.

Legend has it that on the day the Mother Goddess was born in the Thao Giang mulberry field, there were fairies descending to earth to dance and sing like a festival, so on the day of worshiping the Mother Goddesses, it is required to have a fairy dance team consisting of 4 unmarried girls under 16 years old, dancing the dances. Dancing beautifully like a fairy to serve the ceremony. This ritual has now been restored and has been slightly adjusted to suit the festival space. Then comes the palanquin procession, first is the flag team, followed by the eight-tone group, then the eight-symbol team, the lion dance, followed by the fairy dance and then the palanquin.

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Update day : 21/01/2024