72m long colored ceramic painting at Hung Temple festival
Visitors to the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day - Hung Temple Festival 2011 will be able to admire a 700m2 colored ceramic painting with the theme "Festival of the country in the land of the ancestors."
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Excerpt from the ceramic painting "National Festival on the Ancestral Land." (Source: Internet) |
The painting is 72m long, the highest point is 9.9m, on both sides are two relief columns. In the center of the painting is the image of the sun and the moon representing the sky, on both sides are a semicircle symbolizing the earth, one side is a dragon and the other side is a phoenix. Below the image of the sun are six girls arranged in pairs offering Chung cake and Day cake (typical offerings on the anniversary of the ancestors).
Throughout the length of the painting is the legendary image of a hundred eggs, arranged in the egg are traditional festivals such as palanquin procession, procession of the sacred rice, procession of the princess, and festival.
Starting from the left is the image of Lac Long Quan and Au Co with their children working hard. The end is the image of Phu Tho province being built to be civilized, modern today and rich in the future. Interspersed are traditional festivals of Phu Tho, such as boating, swinging, drumming, stabbing, tug of war, and xoan singing. In the sky, the national flag, festival flags and flocks of birds from all over the world gather to the land of the ancestors.
The authors of the painting are artists Mai Van Ke and Le Ngoc Han, the project manager is architect Ngo Thanh Tung.
According to VNA/Vietnam+