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Và Temple - Đông Cung in the four palaces worshiping Saint Tản Viên in Đoài land - Vân Gia village, Trung Hưng ward, Sơn Tây town. Every year, on the full moon of January and the full moon of September, the festival is held solemnly and solemnly. The full moon day of January in the years of the Rat, Horse, Cat, and Rooster is a grand festival, attracting tens of thousands of participants. The most important ritual of the Festival is to process the Dragon Throne of the Three Saints Tản across the Red River to Ngự Dội Temple (Vĩnh Ninh, Vĩnh Tường, Vĩnh Phúc).
The community holds the Mộc Dục ritual in the morning and the Summoning ceremony in the afternoon.
From 5:00 a.m. on the full moon day of the first lunar month, the palanquin procession begins to depart, from the Temple and through some streets in Sơn Tây town to the Red River wharf and take a boat across the river to Ngự Dội temple to worship the Saint. The procession consists of 3 main palanquins (bowl and tribute palanquins) and ceremonial palanquins of the villages, dragon dancing team, eight treasure team, road team, music team, worship team, incense offering team, etc. Along the route, people set up incense burners and made offerings to the Saint on both sides of the road, as well as communal dwellings, temples, pagodas, and people in general. The three main palanquins at the crossroads revolve three times, then bounce three times. There is the custom of "going under the palanquin" - children with anorexia, slow growth, old people, and sick people pass under the palanquin to pray to the Saint for health. In the afternoon, the procession from Ngu Doi Temple returns to Va Temple for a resting ceremony.
The main ceremony on January 16 is the most unique and majestic ceremony in the series of ceremonies at the Festival. January 17 is Thanksgiving Day, the villagers asked the Holy Father for permission to lower the flag and close the main Nghi Môn gate.
Many folk games are organized and practiced such as rice-blowing competitions, duck catching, wrestling, swinging, tug of war, human chess, etc.
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