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Manage No	PI00002423
Country	Vietnam
ICH Domain	Social practices, rituals, festive events

Description	The words “The First Ancestor of Vietnam” can be read on the reception gate to Thượng temple on Nghĩa Lĩnh Mountain, Hy Cương Commune, Việt Trì City, 2011. Photo by Hoàng Sơn; © 2011 Vietnam Institute of Culture and Arts Studies.
Place	There are 345 sites attached to the worship of Hùng Kings in Phú Thọ province, which refers to 345 villages and communities being the holders of the element. In addition, there are totally 1,417 temples nationwide where the worship of Hùng Kings are practiced.	File Size	1287 KB
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Vietnam National Institute Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS)

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EE00001184 The Worship of Hùng Kings in Phú Thọ
The Việt people in Phú Thọ province have been practicing and trasmitting the worship of Hùng Kings whose father named Lạc Long Quân and mother named Âu Cơ for a very long time. The legend has become a strong belief of the country’s origin in the Việt people’s mentality for centuries. Dynasties of Great Việt attached great importance to the worship of Hùng Kings and offerred imperial conferments to villages worshiping Hùng Kings in temples and shrines. The worship of Hùng Kings has created many legends of wharves, rivers, fields, rice plants, land and other unique cultural creativity. Part of cultural creativity is reenacted in annual worship performed at communal houses, temples and shrines in villages. Communities make offerings of rice – based delicacies such as square cakes and glutinous cakes dedicated to Hùng Kings. Legend has it that, Lang Liêu who later became the seventh Hùng King made these two types of cakes by himself. They represent the heaven and the earth as well as the filial piety of the children for the parents. These two offerings are indispensable in the worship of Hùng Kings. Offerings dedicated to Hùng Kings at temples and shrines by villagers usually last for a few days: offerings by families first and then by the whole community. The tablets of Hùng Kings are proccessed throughout the villages and the rice fields, which implies that Hùng Kings may witness today’s lives of villagers and offer good weather, abundant harvests, good luck and good health to villagers, plants and animals. Offerings conducted by villagers at temples, communal houses, and shrines is supposed to be the most sacred moments when the respect and gratitude of communities dedicated to Hùng Kings are expressed.

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