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Con Son-Kiep Bac Spring Festival kicks off

The Con Son-Kiep Bac Spring Festival opened at Con Son-Kiep Bac special national relic site in Chi Linh city, the northern province of Hai Duong on February 6, along with a ceremony to commemorate the 689th death anniversary of Huyen Quang - the third progenitor of the Truc Lam Zen sect.
Con Son-Kiep Bac Spring Festival kicks off ảnh 1A view of the Kiep Bac Temple at the Con Son-Kiep Bac special national relic site. (Photo: VNA)
Hai Duong (VNA) – The ConSon-Kiep Bac Spring Festival opened at Con Son-Kiep Bac special national relicsite in Chi Linh city, the northern province of Hai Duong on February 6, alongwith a ceremony to commemorate the 689th death anniversary of HuyenQuang - the third progenitor of the Truc Lam Zen Buddhism sect.

Opening the festival, Chairman of thePeople’s Committee of Hai Duong Trieu The Hung said that from the 14thcentury, Con Son has become one of the major Buddhism centres of theTruc Lam Zen Buddhismsect of Vietnamese people.

In every Spring, Con Son pagoda hasreceived a large number of visitors who came to pay tribute to Zen Master HuyenQuang.

Huyen Quang, whose real name is Ly Dao Tai,was born in 1254, originally from Van Tu village, now in Thai Baocommune, GiaBinh district. Bac Ninh province. He was a talented intellectual andfamousfor his poetry and literature. He obtained his doctorate at the age of21, and then followed Buddhism. Together with Monk King TranNhan Tong, he wrote Buddhism scriptures, popularised Buddhism across thecountry and became the third progenitor of the Truc Lam Zen sect. Hespent hislast days and died at Con Son pagoda.

Con Son-Kiep Bac Spring Festival kicks off ảnh 2A drum performance at the opening of the festival. (Photo: VNA)
The Con Son – Kiep Bac was recognised as anational heritage site in 1962 and a special national heritage site in 2012. In2013, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism named the Spring Festival inCon Son Pagoda and the Autumn Festival in Kiep Bac Temple as nationalintangible cultural heritages.

Currently, Hai Duong, Quang Ninh and BacGiang provinces are working together to promote the value of the Con Son-KiepBac special national relic site, and finalising dossiers for the Yen Tu-VinhNghiem-Con Son-Kiep Bac landscape and relic complex to seek for UNESCOrecognition as a world heritage site.

This year, the festival features rituals such as incenseoffering in Con Son Pagoda, a water procession ceremony, and a worship offeringceremony on Ngu Nhac mountain. Folk games and a number of cultural and tourismactivities are also held at the festival./.
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