Nhuoc Son temple festival 

 Nhuoc Son temple festival  Time: September 20 of the lunar calendar Nhuoc Son Temple Festival is a festival that takes place on the 20th day of the 9th lunar month every year, in Chau Que Ha commune. Many people in the commune and tourists from all over come to offer incense at Nhuoc Son temple to commemorate Ha Chuong's merits and pray for an increasingly prosperous and happy life. Nhuoc Son Temple is located in Ngoc Chau village, Chau Que Ha commune, this is the temple to worship Mr. Ha Khac Chuong, a military general of the Tran dynasty who made great contributions to defending the northern border area. During the second resistance war against the Mongol Yuan army, he chased the Yuan army from Phu Tho province along the Red River to Yen Bai province, to Chau Que Tho, which is Chau Que Ha today, Ha Khac Chuong recruited more local soldiers to continue to pursue the enemy, building rafts to set up posts. sent Ngoi Thac Nhuoc to ambush enemy army, after a week the enemy army entered the ambush site. Our troops rushed out from all directions and destroyed the enemy army. During the decisive battle, Ha Khac Chuong was seriously injured and died. The body of  Ha Khac Chuong was taken to the river and buried at the mouth of Nhuoc Son waterfall. Nhuoc Son Temple is located facing the North. The temple has an irregular shape and a nail-shaped structure. The overall plan is divided into two parts: the main architecture and the secondary architecture, with a floor area of ​​191.44 square meters. In the temple, there are over 10 relics including crosswords, bronze bells, incense bowls and a statue of Ha Chuong cast in bronze, 28.5cm high, 9cm wide, weighing 67kg. Nhuoc Son Temple Festival will be held in two main parts: the ceremony and the festival. Margin: in addition to the Mother Goddess worship-style ceremonies, here is also worth noting the Tu Viet ceremony held twice a year on January 20 and September 20 (lunar calendar). September 20, according to legend, is the day Ha Chuong died. People will make offerings and discuss preparations to welcome tourists from all over to worship Him.             - Time is from 5am to 5pm.             - The composition includes the commanders, chiefs, assistants, guardians...             - From 5:00 a.m., soldiers will direct the slaughter of pigs (pigs from 60 to 70kg, no regulations on black or white pigs). Pigs will be slaughtered on the banks of the Red River, divided into 12 pots (to worship the Dragon King right at Nhuoc Son waterfall) (with accompanying audio tape - see section IX - photo and documentary records).             - At 6:00 a.m., villagers will bring banh day and green rice (stored in a coong) to offer to high mandarin Nhuoc Son.             - At 9:00 a.m., the main ceremony will take place, the shaman reads a 7-week eulogy, with the content: remembering his merits and praying for the people to be prosperous and happy.             - At 10:00 a.m., when he sees that the offerings have finished, the lion house (guest house) department will prepare rice to serve guests and visitors from all over to attend the festival.             - January 20 (lunar calendar) is different from September 20 in that: pig slaughter will be replaced by buffalo slaughter, the ceremony and festival are the same as September 20.  Assembly part:             - Time is from 10am to 5pm.             - At 10:00 a.m., festival activities will take place simultaneously such as: xoe dance festival, con throwing festival, banquet festival, dum singing festival...             - At 10:00 a.m., the xoe dance festival is held right at the temple yard. Villagers must dress up in traditional clothes in front of the temple. The witch doctor will be the one to perform the song first. Each song will have 6 to 7 people performing the song. Each person will wear 10 music balls and sing songs to pray for the season.             - From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., dum singing (duan singing) festival, bird's nest fighting festival, and throwing festival are also held at the temple yard.             + Bird's nest festival: the bird's nest will be made from leaves of the pandanus tree, braided from 4 leaves and tied with 3 chicken wing feathers. The people who beat the bird's nest will pass it to each other. If anyone drops the bird's nest, they will be lightly punched.             + Shuttlecock throwing festival: divided into 2 teams, one side is male and the other is female. Whoever breaks the shuttlecock ring will be rewarded in kind by Chief Ly. The tree is 15 to 20m high, with a ring length of 20 to 25cm, and is glued with red paper facing the river bank (thrown down at the beginning of the river and up at the end of the river). The fruit is also made of fabric, containing cotton seeds inside and wrapped into a square shape, with the four corners decorated with red and green tassels. The tassel is made of 70cm long string, braided from bamboo and tied into 7 segments of red, blue, yellow, and purple fabric (symbolizing his 7 astral bodies). The shaman will be the initiator of the shuttlecock throwing. At the foot of the column there is also a tray of raspberries and chickens to worship the local people.             + Dum singing festival (dual singing): people in different villages will sing songs to each other with the content of asking about each other's health and wishing each other prosperity.             - At the end of the festival (5:00 p.m.), the chief and guardian will announce and thank the people and tourists from everywhere./.