Quat temple festival

Sharpent temple festival is grateful to the name of General Yet In Gia Loc district, Hai Duong province (former) now Hai Phong City has an ancient temple to worship a famous general of the Tran Dynasty, who has made many times when the Nguyen Mong enemy boat has made a famous victory in history. It was Quat temple, worshiping the name of General Yet Kieu, the first capital of the Marshal of the Marshal of St. Tran Trieu ... Yet Kieu's real name is Pham Huu The (1242-1301), from Ha Bi village, Yet Kieu commune. He is a famous general of the Tran dynasty, talented virtue. He was Sui General, one of the two generals holding the secret flag of Hung Dao Vuong Tran Quoc Tuan, with a special talent for swimming, many times punctured the Yuan Mong enemy boat to make illustrious victories in history, people with great merit helped the Tran dynasty to destroy the Yuan army in the thirteenth century. He was awarded "Tran Trieu Huu General, the First Marshal of Marshal, marshal". After his death, King Tran gave the people of the Ha Bi villagers to set up the temple and worshiped him as the village tutelary. Yet Kieu was also established a temple and temple in many places, but the biggest was Quat temple. Quat Temple has existed for more than 700 years, by the seventeenth century, the temple was spacious and remodeled many times into the Nguyen Dynasty with a 2,700 m2 campus. Quat Temple relic is ranked as a national monument on January 28, 1989. Quat temple festival takes place in the spring (from January 10-20), autumn (from August 14-16 in the lunar calendar). On this occasion, the local people and visitors return to the dermatological river to make a thanksgiving ceremony of Yet Kieu. In addition to the traditional rituals, this year's Quat temple festival has recreated the Chieng swimming ceremony and the ceremony of offering the box - the activities that often take place in old temple festivals. These are the most important festivals of Hai Duong. Quat temple festival always held a procession and procession as the most important ritual of the ceremony. The festival always has a swimming competition. Participants in the swimming exam are healthy young people, selected very carefully from fishing neighbors. The boats before swimming must follow the compulsory ritual of incense to ask for a bumper fish season, the people are full. The swimmers are chipped with towels, waist, all wearing square and different colors to distinguish the teams with each other. The racing boat is designed with a long and narrow dragon boat with high surfing. The race is the straightest river section, plugged in the trees with the narrowed tail flag to mark the destination. When the swimming exam heard for a while, a drum, that is, the competition began. Quat temple festival shows the beautiful martial arts spirit of the nation. It has similarities to the prayer for the fishermen of the Central Coast. Currently, Quat temple festival always attracts a large number of Pham's descendants as well as tourists from near and far to visit.