Giong Association

The Giong festival is a festival of traditional culture that simulated vividly and scientifically moving the matches of St. Giong and the people of Van Lang with An enemy. Through that, it is possible to improve "community awareness about ancient tribal war forms and relate to the nature of the victory of the people's war, the entire people and comprehensively in the cause of the liberation and defense of the Fatherland". The Orthodox Phu Dong Association is held annually, preparing from the 1st of the 3rd lunar calendar to the 5th of the fourth lunar month and held from the 6th of the 4th lunar month to the 12th of the fourth lunar month in Phu Dong commune, Gia Lam district, Hanoi city, where the legendary hero Phu Dong Thien Vuong. Giong Phu Dong has the roles: "Brand" (Flag - symbolic Salon Giong, Drum brand, Gong Brand, Tieu Co), Mr. Giong's general system: "Phu Gia" (120 people), regular army; The "generals" (including 28 people symbolize the enemy, the two generals were the generals and the horse generals chosen from the village of Mieu Ban - where the sickle and the cradle of San Sinh Giong), symbolizing invaders; Ward "Ai Lao", including "Mr. Ho", the general army; "Red Austrian Village", young reconnaissance army; "Black shirt", civilian team, ... as well as props, clothes, each chapter, each role contains very profound meanings. "The procession of the road" is the reconnaissance; "Water procession" is for me to train the weapons before leaving the army; "Procession of talks" is negotiating to call for peace; "The procession of the battle of beer" is a stylized simulation of fierce battle. In this match, the broken iron whip, Mr. Giong had to use bamboo behind, a weapon symbolizing the internal strength of the nation. The red flag on which the word "command" is dignified along with the flag dance movements of Mr. Co Hieu (the role of symbolic Mr. Giong) is expressing some basic views of the army and combat methods to win. It is "the command must be strict" "" the tactics must be creative "(flag dance and chess dance). Foreign price (the squad has 120 people) are loincloths, naked, head -shaped hats, with nine small dragons, symbolizing the soil, the shoulder wearing a "semicircular" bag with half the moon shape, symbolizing the sky, holding a brown paper fan carved, spreading according to the command of the evil he "chorus" and "export", symbolizing a virtual virtual weapon. In the festival, there were 28 young girls playing the enemy, symbolizing 28 army invaders of An. As for the procession of "cocoon generals", "cocoon price", and "hunting tigers, catching tigers, helping tigers incarnation", can ponder the view of the American carpet and traditional behavior, etc. Giong Phu Dong festival also has many cheo singing to celebrate the match. Giong Phu Dong festival is considered as one of the largest festivals in the Northern Delta in terms of the scale of the procession and attendees.