On February 21, 2024 (i.e. January 12), the Management Board of Tam Chuc Pagoda (Ba Sao town, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province) will organize the Opening Festival of Tam Chuc Xuan Giap Thin Pagoda in 2024.
Delegates to the opening ceremony
Attending the opening ceremony were comrades: Vo Thi Anh Xuan - Member of the Party Central Committee - Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Nguyen Thi Doan - Former Vice President - President of the Vietnam Association for Learning Promotion; Venerable Thich Thanh Interference - Permanent Vice Chairman of the Governing Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Church, abbot of Bai Dinh Pagoda (Ninh Binh) and Tam Chuc Pagoda (Ha Nam); Le Thi Thuy - Member of the Party Central Committee - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Trinh Thi Thuy - Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism; Dinh Thi Lua - Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Truong Quoc Huy - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Head of the provincial National Assembly delegation; delegates of ministries, central departments and branches; Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee; Standing Committee of People's Council, leader of People's Committee, provincial Fatherland Front Committee; leaders of departments, departments, branches, unions, districts, towns, cities together with a large number of monks and nuns, Buddhists, people and tourists from all over the world...
Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Truong Quoc Huy sounded the opening drum
Delegates officiated at the National Prayer Ceremony for Thai Dan An
Water procession from Tam Chuc Lake to Jade Pagoda
The opening ceremony of the Tam Chuc Xuan Giap Thin Pagoda Festival in 2024 takes place with incense offering rituals to pray to the national Thai people, favorable rain, harmonious wind, and bountiful harvests to bring a peaceful life to compatriots and humanity; occasional bells - opening drums; the water procession from Tam Chuc Lake to the Jade Pagoda on the top of Seven Star Mountain...
The Tam Chuc Pagoda Festival on January 12 every year is the desire of the local people and Buddhists, and at the same time contributes to preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, introducing and promoting the image and cultural values of the homeland, create conditions for people and Buddhists at home and abroad to come to Tam Chuc Pagoda spiritual tourism area. 2024 is the 6th year that Tam Chuc Pagoda will organize the Spring Festival. This year, visitors can also experience many unique events, including art performances and fireworks to celebrate the Spring Party at the International Convention Center - Tam Chuc Tourist Area on the night of February 20, 2024 (the night of the 11th lunar day) and experience many folk games, art performances, antique booths, traditional craft villages during the festival ... On the morning of February 20, 2024, (ie January 12), Ha Nam province, the Management Board of Tam Chuc Pagoda will organize the Tam Chuc Pagoda Spring Festival in 2024.
Delegates and monks and nuns, Buddhists with water procession rituals
Tam Chuc Pagoda is a large tourism-cultural-spiritual complex connecting four provinces and cities: Ha Nam, Hanoi, Ninh Binh and Hoa Binh. Based on some relics found in the bed of Tam Chuc Lake and folk stories still handed down locally, more than 1,000 years ago in the Dinh Dynasty this place was the land of Buddha, with the ancient and majestic Tam Chuc pagoda, local people every year on the occasion of early spring held a festival to pray to the national Thai people, The rain is favorable and the wind is harmonious, the harvest is abundant and this is also the gathering place of monks and nuns and Buddhists of the ten directions. With a large area, the landscape here is wild and majestic with "Early Continent Music, Post-Seven Stars", that is, three sides surrounded by the Seven Crystal Mountains with a solid throne, in front of the lake, there are 6 mountains rising to look like 6 bells of the Buddha. Tam Chuc Pagoda was built with main architectural works such as: Jade Tower, Tam The Hall, Patriarchal Hall, Quan Yin Hall, Ancestral Church, Tu An House, Tam Quan Inner Gate and International Convention Center...
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Truong Quoc Huy said: The Opening Ceremony of Tam Chuc Spring Festival 2024 with many rich and diverse activities to continue and promote the fine cultural traditions of his fathers, propagate and deeply promote the image of the land and people of Ha Nam to a large number of people, domestic and international tourists, contributing to the preservation and promotion of the value of Ha Nam cultural heritage associated with sustainable tourism development. Chairman of Ha Nam Provincial People's Committee Truong Quoc Huy emphasized: With the motto of exploiting potentials and developing tourism into a key economic sector, in recent years, the policy of tourism development has been concretized in documents of the provincial Party Congress, thematic resolutions, plannings, plans and schemes of committees and governments at all levels. Along with that, Ha Nam province focuses on promoting propaganda, promotion and investment promotion in tourism through organizing and hosting many national and international events, creating a strong buzz such as: Vesak Day in 2019, Ha Nam Tourism Development Investment Promotion Conference in 2023, Ha Nam Culture and Tourism Week 2023 and the Vietnam-Japan Traditional Art Exchange Program, the annual Tam Chuc Spring Festival Opening Ceremony... With infrastructure, technical facilities, high-quality and synchronous services, Tam Chuc tourist area is an attractive destination for domestic and foreign tourists, creating a breakthrough for Ha Nam tourism industry, making an important contribution to the achievement of the province's tourism development goals.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented the World Travel Awards trophy to honor Ha Nam province as one of the world's top local cultural destinations 2023 for the first time
At the opening ceremony of Tam Chuc Xuan Giap Thin Pagoda in 2024, Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan presented the World Travel Awards Cup to honor Ha Nam province as one of the world's leading local cultural destinations in 2023 for the first time.
