Soc Temple in Hoi Giong

Time: 6 - 8/1 lunar calendar, the Assembly 7/1 (day sanctified)
Location: Phu Linh Commune, Soc Son district, Hanoi. Hanoi.
Objects of worship: Saint Giong.
Features: Pirates of bamboo flowering and slash An enemy general.
Thanh Giong is one immortal quartet of Vietnam folk beliefs, legends associated with the village boys An Phu Dong defeat the enemy, bring peace to the country at Hung Vuong 6th After defeating the enemy , Phu Linh is where the last stop of Thanh Giong before flying to heaven. To commemorate the merits of the Holy, here, the people have built Soc Temple relic consists of 6 buildings: Temple House (aka the temple), the Great Compassion Temple, Mau Temple, Thuong Temple (also temple called Soc), Thanh Giong monument and beer. In particular, the upper temple is a shrine and Saint Giong festival full of traditional rituals such as holidays Moc Duc; the procession; incense; elephants and horses ceremony ...
To prepare for the festival, on the night of the 5th, the feast Moc Duc (bath subjects) was conducted to invite Pope to attend. 6th declaration to the people, 8 villages of 6 communes located around the Soc Temple relic Tan Minh Tien Duoc, Phu Linh, Duc Hoa, Phu Xuan Giang and Bac offered the gifts have been prepared to Pope, praying he bless the villagers have a prosperous life, happiness. In it, the ritual flower offering to the Upper house of the village bamboo Ve Linh (Phu Linh commune) held first. United Bamboo is made of a long bamboo stick about 50cm, diameter of about 1cm, started plucking cotton and dyed bamboo symbolizes Saint Giong's horse whip. Bamboo flowering rose after Shanghai will be the procession to the temple shrine and then distributing them to attend the House of Assembly for good luck.
To the Assembly 7th (day of sanctification according to legend), slashing the enemy general tableau depicting Saint Giong guillotine last 3 An enemy general at the foot of Ve Linh before ascending to the heavens was held. In the afternoon the 8th, the feast of elephants and horses turned models for large size paper was carried out to end the festival by iron elephants and horses are the two mascots associated with the An invaders Thanh Giong fight, protect young border river. All visitors participate in the festival are looking forward to join hands to carry elephants and horses to the river by a religious goods, anyone get their hands on the Holy global map will have good luck in life.
During the Assembly Giong has many traditional games are organized, such as cockfighting, Chinese chess, singing ca tru, cheo ...
In addition Soc Temple, akin also be held in other places of the northern plains such as Xuan Tao village (Xuan Dinh Commune, Tu Liem District) on 6/1 lunar day; Bo Dau village (Bo Dau Commune, Thuong Tin District) on 8/1 lunar day; Ho Sen village (Le Chi Commune, Gia Lam district) to 5/4 lunar day; and Phu Dong Temple (Temple Giong) (Phu Dong commune, Gia Lam district) from 6 - 12/4 lunar calendar.
16/11/2010, in the city of Nairobi (capital of Kenya), the 5th session of the Intergovernmental Committee under the UNESCO Convention, 2003, Phu Dong Hoi Giong Temple in Soc Temple and was officially recognized as intangible cultural heritage of humanity can represent. Outstanding global value of the encoded expression in that it is a cultural activity is preserved, handed down fairly constant and integrity over many generations. The festival also serves as community links and contains many innovative ideas, express aspirations are peaceful country, the people have a prosperous life, happiness. In terms of art, akin to bring more beauty and value of the festival as the procession, the flag signal, space efficiency, performance gong, folk, dance frontier workers, tiger dance ...