Spring music for Que Phong
(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.
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The way up to the Nine-room Temple |
The special feature 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 Muong contributes a buffalo to each ceremony.
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More and more tourists come to the Nine-chamber temple. |
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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 for many reasons has been interrupted for more than half a century. 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 a 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.
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