Gieng Tanh communal house festival

Gieng Tanh communal house festival

Kim Phu, Tuyen Quang City

Gieng Tanh communal house festival, Kim Phu commune Gieng Tanh communal house in Gieng Tanh village, Kim Phu commune, Yen Son district, is a spiritual and religious place expressing the identity of the community living on Gieng Tanh land. During the year, Gieng Tanh communal house holds many festivals, the main festival is held on the 10th day of the first lunar month every year. Gieng Tanh communal house in Gieng Tanh village, Kim Phu commune, Yen Son district (currently replacing Kim Phu commune, Tuyen Quang city), is a spiritual and religious place expressing the identity of the community living on Gieng Tanh land. During the year, Gieng Tanh communal house holds many festivals, the main festival is held on the 10th day of the first lunar month every year. Gieng Tanh village communal house, famous for its sacredness. The communal house was built in the year of the Dog (1706)[1]. Legend has it that Mr. Tieu Hiep Phuong, a commoner living in poverty, came to Hung Temple to ask for help for the people through the tribulation. King Hung appointed two saints, "The King of Ngoc Son, the king's spirit, the king" and "The king Nghiem Son's official command, the king" to the Yen Son area to protect the people of Gieng Tanh village. Since then, business here has been peaceful and the harvest has been bountiful. Grateful to the two saints, the people of Gieng Tanh built a communal house to commemorate and took January 10 as the village's death anniversary. The communal house also worships Princess Thien Hoa, worships the gods who support the village's agriculture, namely the Nong God, Earth God and Dragon King, and worships Mrs. Luong Thi Hai - who is said to have provided food and grass for the insurgents to fight the enemy. The communal house was built on a flat land in Kim Phu field. The front faces north, with a flowing stream. Behind the communal house is leaning against Nghiem mountain, on the left is La mountain, on the right is the village of Cao Lan people. The communal house has 3 rooms, wooden frame, tiled roof. In the middle is an incense burner painted in red and gold, with many meticulously carved patterns. The highlight is that the top of the incense burner is carved with a pair of dragons flanking the sun and moon, surrounding the pair of dragons are gently curving clouds. The harem has an altar built of bricks about 2 meters high, around the altar there are diaphragms and couplets carved from jackfruit wood. The highest place holds the tablets of the two Thanh Hoang gods. Because time and weather have affected the space and architecture of the communal house, the people of Gieng Tanh Cultural Village have now decided to contribute to rebuilding the communal house and completed it in the well month of Ky Hoi year (2019).           * Tanh Well Tanh Well is about 200 meters north of Gieng Tanh communal house. A special feature of Gieng Tanh is that the well's water level is always higher than the water level of the surrounding fields, streams, ponds and lakes. The water of Tanh Well is available all year round, it never dries up, the water is very clear and blue so people call it Tanh Well (in Cao Lan language "Tanh" means clean, pure, not fishy). According to the people of Gieng Tanh village, the well was known in the year Nham Tuat (1706). At that time, some families of the Cao Lan ethnic group moved to the North to find a new land to live. One day, the ancestors saw that this area was flat, the land was fertile, the trees were lush, and there was especially clear water, so they built a village and named the village. Previously, the whole village used the water source at Gieng Tanh for daily activities. During the village communal house festival (January 10 every year), Cao Lan people take well water to make offerings to the communal house because they believe that taking well water as an object of worship will be very sacred. Gieng Tanh Communal House Festival includes a ceremony and a festival. This is the biggest festival of the year for the Cao Lan ethnic people in Kim Phu commune, Yen Son district. The festival takes place for 1 day and 2 nights. The ceremony is conducted from the night of January 9 until half the next day, leaving the remaining half day and night of the 10th for the festival. The ceremony is held in the communal house according to traditional rites. At the beginning of the festival, there are 7 participants including: the celebrant, the chanter, the person reading the eulogy and 4 celebrants (the celebrant wears a red shirt, the rest all wear blue shirts). The ceremony is held in the communal house according to traditional rituals, the content has spiritual meaning, praying for favorable weather, good crops, and the development of all things... The festival part of the Gieng Tanh village communal house festival begins very early, right before the ceremony in the communal house has finished, including folk games: con tossing, cock fighting, pushing sticks, swinging... In addition to folk games, a cultural activity with unique characteristics of the Cao Lan people that is indispensable in the festival is Sinh ca singing. Singing Sinh ca in Geng Tanh communal house festival in Kim Phu commune is mainly for young men and women divided into many singing episodes. The first episodes are about singing to get to know each other, then singing to evaluate each other's understanding, from then on to confessing love.  Gieng Tanh village communal house festival really contributes to building the cultural and spiritual life of the Kim Phu ethnic community. Gieng Tanh communal house festival has truly become a regional festival, not only meeting the festival needs of Cao Lan people but also a cultural festival for many ethnic groups in Tuyen Quang province.

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