On the morning of April 19 (March 11 of the lunar calendar) at the Mai An Tiem Temple (Nga Phu Commune), the People's Committee of Nga Son District solemnly opened the Mai An Tiem Festival 2024.
Attending the festival were comrades: Mai Van Ninh, former member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, Chairman of the Mai Family Council of Vietnam; Tran Ngoc Liem, former Deputy Inspector General of the Government ; Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Vu The Giao, former Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, former Secretary of the Nga Son District Party Committee; Hoang Van Hoang, former Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mai Xuan Liem, member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mai Van Hai, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation.
Delegates attending the festival
Comrade Mai Van Ninh, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, former Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Mai Family Council of Vietnam and delegates attended the festival.
Comrade Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation and delegates attended the festival.
The Mai An Tiem Festival 2024 takes place with traditional rituals: offering incense, sacrificing, remembering, and expressing gratitude for the merits of Saint Mai An Tiem, who reclaimed the wasteland, establishing the fertile land of Nga Son, with its beautiful and fascinating mountains and rivers.
Delegates perform the incense offering ceremony
Comrade Mai Van Ninh, former member of the Party Central Committee, former Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, former Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Mai Family Council of Vietnam, performed the incense offering ceremony.
Comrade Lai The Nguyen, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, performed the incense offering ceremony.
According to legend, Mai An Tiem was the adopted son of the 18th Hung King. When he was misunderstood by his father and exiled to a deserted island, Mai An Tiem and his wife and children overcame hardships, found a rare watermelon variety, reclaimed the remote island, and built the Northeast region of Thanh Hoa province into a prosperous countryside. Over thousands of years of history, the image of Mai An Tiem has been deeply imprinted in the cultural life of the community, as a symbol of the spirit of hard work, creativity, self-reliance, and self-reliance of the Vietnamese people.
The procession from Van Duc cultural house to Mai An Tiem ancestor temple (Nga Phu commune).
Until now, the story of Mai An Tiem still holds its value, a great lesson for the younger generation in starting a business and creating success from hardship.
To commemorate the merits of Saint An Tiem, the people of Nga Son built a temple to worship him at the very place where it is said that Mai An Tiem and his family built a tent on the island, now in Nga Phu commune (Nga Son).
Ritual at the festival
Along with the temple building, every year in the middle of the third lunar month, Mai An Tiem Festival is held with many rich activities to arouse the tradition of independence, self-reliance, creative labor, and overcoming difficulties. At the same time, it encourages today's generations to promote the tradition of their ancestors to build their homeland and country to become more and more prosperous and civilized.
This is also an opportunity to introduce and promote the land, culture and people of Nga Son, rich in cultural, historical and revolutionary traditions; thereby stimulating tourism , attracting domestic and foreign tourists to Nga Son in particular and Thanh Hoa in general.
Representatives of Nga Son district leaders beat the drum to open the festival.
Cultural program at the festival
After the ceremony, there was a festival with a special art program with the theme "Mai An Tiem offers sweet fruits to the world, in the middle of the ocean, building everlasting mountains and rivers", vividly recreating the journey of overcoming difficulties, finding rare watermelon varieties, exploiting remote islands, building the Northeast of Thanh Hoa province into a fertile homeland of Saint Mai An Tiem; as well as the responsibility of future generations in preserving and promoting the tradition of patriotism, building the homeland to become increasingly rich and developed.
Nguyen Dat
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