Spring music for Que Phong

DNUM_AFZADZCAAI 11:30

(NAO) In less than 2 weeks, the Nine-chamber Temple Festival will open in Que Phong district. For the ethnic people of the “nine villages and ten muongs”, this will be a day of cultural exchange, strengthening solidarity between ethnic groups and an opportunity for them to remember the merits of the founders of the villages and muongs.


The way to the Nine-room Temple

Our delegation arrived in Que Phong at the right time when the district was urgently preparing for the 3rd Nine-room Temple Festival since the temple was renovated in 2006. The district People's Committee, in coordination with the cultural center and the cultural department, had completed the festival script. In the communes, the rehearsals for the art performances and sports were very exciting. Right at the temple, the work of leveling the ground for the car road and renovating the main stage was also almost completed. In the first days of Spring, the Nine-room Temple was brilliant with flags, banners, and slogans, waiting for the most important festival of the year, a festival that bears the historical mark and identity of the Thai people in the Northwest of Nghe An.

The highlight of this year’s festival will be the Buffalo Slaughter Ceremony (also known as the Phan Quai Ceremony). The Buffalo Slaughter Ceremony is a ritual of killing a buffalo as the main offering to Then Pha (King of Heaven) and Tao Lo yi in the sacrifice ceremony. According to the ancient custom of the Thai people, each village contributes a buffalo to each ceremony.

More and more tourists come to the Nine-chamber temple.

The shamans of the nine villages, dressed in ceremonial costumes, performed a buffalo bathing ceremony right at the water wharf at the foot of Pu Quai Mountain in front of everyone, put a beautiful cloth on the buffalo's back and brought it to the temple. Then the buffalo chosen for sacrifice was brought to the temple yard with a solemn procession. The shaman in the ceremonial costume walked three times around the buffalo, which was tied to a wooden stake, while reciting the Xen song in Thai, praying for the peace of the nine villages and ten villages.

The gong to open the festival



This year the buffalo slaughtering ceremony will take place exactly as the ancient ritual, festival-goers will witness a buffalo slaughtering ceremony according to the custom that has been interrupted for more than half a century for many reasons. In addition to the buffalo slaughtering ceremony, this year's festival also has an opening ceremony, a light-lifting ceremony, a ceremony to carry offerings to heaven, a thanksgiving ceremony... These ceremonies, in addition to the procession that will start from Ta Tao wharf, will be held inside the Nine-room Temple. Mr. Lo Hai Minh, head of the temple management board, added: In addition to the three days of the festival, on normal days, there are quite a lot of visitors coming to burn incense. Therefore, not only on the festival day, but also on normal days, the Nine-room Temple is always cleaned and opened to welcome visitors.

There is one very special thing, the days when Que Phong district is bustling with the Nine-room Temple Festival are also the occasion when Que Phong celebrates the 45th anniversary of the district's founding. The Nine-room Temple Festival in 2008 will be the most bustling Spring opening music, welcoming a Que Phong that is renewing, transforming, and rising to become one of the relatively mountainous districts of Nghe An province.


My Ha

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