At the King Mai Temple Festival 2013
(Baonghean.vn) - The 2013 King Mai Temple Festival took place from the 13th to the 15th day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Snake (February 22nd to 24th, 2013). Today (February 23rd), the festival entered its second day with cultural and artistic programs, sports, and folk games such as a youth camp; an open women's volleyball tournament; human chess, wrestling, mountain climbing, swing riding, tug-of-war, sack race, and a sticky rice and chicken cooking competition...
The beautiful, calm, and rain-free weather created favorable conditions for a large number of local people and tourists to attend the festival; to participate in the festival activities as well as to offer incense at the Temple and Mausoleum of King Mai.
This year, the King Mai Temple Festival is a provincial-level festival linked to the 1,300th anniversary of the Hoan Chau Uprising (which will take place at 7:30 PM tonight at the King Mai historical site – broadcast live on VTV1 and NTV). Preparations for the anniversary celebration are being finalized; drawing on lessons learned from previous years' festivals, this year's festival will be more systematically organized, from ensuring security and order, fire prevention, to the organizing committee's arrangement of food areas and sanitation facilities around the historical site…
Here are some photos taken by reporters from Nghe An Newspaper at the King Mai Temple Festival in 2013:
Numerous people from all over respectfully attended the 1300th anniversary celebration of the Hoan Chau Uprising (713-2013) and the King Mai Temple Festival in 2013.
The campsites for the communes and units participating in the festival are being completed in a hurry.
Playing Chinese chess at the festival.
Colorful corner of the festival
Women's Volleyball Tournament to Celebrate the 1300th Anniversary of the Hoan Chau Uprising (713-2013) and the King Mai Temple Festival 2013
Swinging on a swing during the Spring Festival is a beautiful tradition.
The throne, palanquin, and main stage area are being completed in a hurry for the main festival night taking place tonight (January 14th).
The military is preparing to plant a large banyan tree in the area of the King Mai Temple, in commemoration of the 1300th anniversary of the Hoan Chau Uprising (713-2013) and the King Mai Temple Festival in 2013.
Respectfully offering incense before the temple of King Mai
People come to admire the scenery and offer incense at the temple of King Mai.
The smiles of the elderly women from the surrounding area as they came to the festival.
Many people came to ask the calligrapher for auspicious calligraphy at the beginning of the new year during the festival.
Tran Hai - Thanh Chung