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HON CHEN TEMPLE FESTIVAL |
The Hon Chen Temple Festival is organized twice every
year, in the 3rd and the 7th lunar months.
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The festival takes
place at the Hon Chen temple, 10 km west of Hue. It
starts with a procession referred to as the God
Welcoming ceremony; it is said to bring all the
worshipped Gods from the village’s temples and shrines
to the communal house where various rituals are
performed, including the procession in honour of Saint
Mother Thien Y A Na.
The procession takes place at night with a long line
of boats bound together into bigger rafts, on the
Perfume River shining with myriad of lights. |
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The Hon Chen Temple Festival includes a performance filled
with imperial characters. Actors dressed in clothes with
splendid turbans and tunics look like princes and
princesses of the Nguyen dynasty. These shows take place
in the natural settings of mountains, hills, and rivers.
This Antique Museum of Nature also shows flags, fans,
hammocks, umbrellas, weapons, and offerings that visitors
would be unable to see.
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