Sinh village wrestling festival

Every year, on the 10th day of the first lunar month, people in Phu Mau commune, Phu Vang district, Thua Thua Thien province sound drums to open the flag, and come back to organize the Sinh village wrestling festival. Sinh village wrestling festival is a traditional cultural beauty that has been preserved and promoted for hundreds of years since the reign of Lord Nguyen.

The wrestling festival takes place in Lai An, also known as Sinh village. This is one of the villages formed quite early in Dang Trong, located along the Perfume River, downstream of Sinh junction (procession in Tu Vinh district or Mau Tai district), now Phu Mau commune, Phu Vang district, Thua Thien Hue province. Sinh village is also the last address in the South that still preserves the martial arts tradition.

The traditional Sinh village wrestling festival has a history of more than 200 years and has developed continuously until now. This wrestling festival is completely different from the wrestling festivals in other villages because people organize the wrestling festival as a simple form of entertainment after the holidays, not for the purpose of selecting fighters for the feudal court at that time.

In ancient times, Sinh village was just an alluvial ground of three river branches merging together. The terrain here is flat and spacious, so it was used by the Nguyen lords as a place to practice martial arts for royal soldiers. When Lord Nguyen's court officials came here to practice martial arts, Sinh village had a young man who was fascinated with the wrestling moves of the generals so he joined the army.

After going through many battles, after the war ended, this young man returned to his village to get married and later introduced a form of wrestling for his children and grandchildren to practice together to improve their health. This person was later honored by the village as the founder of wrestling.

Sinh village's traditional wrestling festival has long become a big festival, a cultural feature with its own identity and deeply ingrained in the blood of every person in Sinh village. The wrestling festival is also a meaningful early spring playground, an interesting tourist destination for tourists every spring.