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According to tradition, every year the Mother Goddess Festival is held on the 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th days of the 4th lunar month, the main day is the 25th. On the night of the 23rd, the ritual of bathing Mother Goddess is performed (llitting two large candles in front of Mother Goddess statue; the elders chant incense, offer wine and tea; women clean the statue's bones, applied perfume, change her clothes and put on her hat behind a curtain with letters and patterns. colorful). On the afternoon of the 24th, the ceremony invited Thoại Ngọc Hầu from Sơn Mausoleum to Bà Temple. On the night of the 25th and the morning of the 26th, Túc Yết ceremony, offers a live white pig (cleaned of hair, gutted), a tray of raspberries, a tray of thick cakes, a plate of rice, salt, a plate of blood, a bowl of water, a tray of fruit. After the offering ceremony, there is the adoration ceremony (theater troupes perform traditional operas and shadow dances). At 4:00 a.m. on the 26th, the chief worshiping ceremony takes place, with rituals and offerings similar to the Túc Yết ceremony. On the afternoon of the 27th is the ceremony to return Thoại Ngọc Hầu to the mausoleum. The festival part takes place interwoven with the ceremony part, with many folk performances such as lion and dragon dance, tray dance, and plate and cup dance. |
