Nghe An people offer their offerings to their ancestral land.

(Baonghean) During the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day - Hung Temple Festival, from March 26 to March 31, 2012 (ie March 5 to March 10 of the lunar calendar), the products representing Nghe An culture have the opportunity to "stand shoulder to shoulder" with delicious and strange foods from many different regions, offered to show gratitude to the Hung Kings. The selected products are Quy Chau incense, Phu Quy oranges and Nghi Phu wine, which are famous in and outside the province...

Since 2009, the Prime Minister has directed Phu Tho province to preside over the organization of the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day every year. This year, Phu Tho province invited provinces and cities representing the three regions of the North, Central and South to participate in the commemoration and offer gifts. According to the host's plan, this year's National Commemoration Day, along with Nghe An's offerings, will be offered to the Hung Kings by products from the provinces and cities of Da Nang, Hai Phong and Dien Bien. Previously, the leaders of the provinces and cities participating in the Commemoration Day, together with the host Phu Tho, met to discuss and agree on the ceremony of offering gifts and incense to be held at the Upper Temple, in the Hung Kings' Temple Historical Site, on the afternoon of March 30.

Cam Phu Quy is one of the gifts Nghe An offers to show gratitude to the Hung Kings.

Nghe An - the homeland of President Ho Chi Minh, is an ancient land, of strategic importance in the history of the country's formation over the past thousands of years. Archaeological sites found from the sea to the mountains confirm that ancient Vietnamese people have long lived in Nghe An. On this land, in addition to the Kinh people, there are many ethnic groups with cultural diversity but all have the belief in worshiping King Hung. Therefore, the selection of some typical items, representing the ethnic communities of Nghe An is a matter that requires the provincial authorities and branches to consider?

Sharing about this, Mr. Doan Nam, Head of Heritage Management Department of Nghe An Department of Culture - Sports - Tourism said: "When receiving this task from the Provincial People's Committee, I felt that this was both an honor and a great responsibility, because the product must be unique and worthy of the cultural depth of the province. At first, we thought about choosing lotus flowers from Uncle Ho's hometown or bamboo rice of the highland people... After discussion, we decided to choose Vinh oranges, Quy Chau incense and Nghi Phu wine".

Although they are not delicacies or pearls, these products are typical of Nghe An, very close to the people's lives and in the souls of every Nghe An citizen. We often see oranges in the five-fruit tray on Tet holiday, and agarwood in Vietnamese culture has long been a bridge between the human world and the spiritual world, indispensable in places of worship, especially in death anniversaries, festivals, and Tet. For the Thai people in Quy Chau, a famous incense-producing place in the province, people have long known how to find agarwood roots to burn in ancestor worship ceremonies, and gradually, people learned how to make agarwood trees. Mrs. Tran Thi Loan (Quy Chau town), who provides agarwood as an offering to the Hung King's death anniversary this year, is very happy: "This is the first time my hometown's agarwood has been chosen as an offering to the death anniversary, and my people have used it to worship their ancestors for many years."

In this Return to the Source event, we must mention another cultural specialty of Nghe An, which is the Vi and Dam melodies. This is the first time a professional art troupe from the homeland of Vi and Dam melodies has performed for the Hung Kings' Commemoration Day - Hung Temple Festival. The art troupe from Nghe An will bring to the festival two plays, "You are the belief in certain victory" and "Your words, the words of the country" performed by actors from the Center for Preservation and Promotion of Nghe Folk Heritage. It is expected that these will be two nights of meeting and exchange between Vi and Dam melodies of Nghe An and Xoan singing of Phu Tho. Along with that are the free-spirited melodies of the South Central river region from the Da Nang Art Troupe and performances by ethnic groups in the Dien Bien highlands... promising to bring to the atmosphere of the Commemoration Day and Hung Temple Festival 2012 a colorful "artistic feast"!

You Wei