Preserving and promoting the traditional cultural beauty of the Saint Tran's salary distribution ceremony at Tran Thuong Temple

13/02/2025
On the night of February 11, 2025 (January 14, At Ty year), at the special national relic Tran Thuong Temple (Tran Hung Dao commune, Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province), the Provincial People's Committee held the salary distribution ceremony for Saint Tran Xuan At Ty year 2025.

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Delegates attending the salary distribution ceremony of Saint Tran at Tran Temple in the Spring of At Ty year 2025

Attending the ceremony, Central delegates included Comrade Nguyen Thi Doan - Former Member of the Party Central Committee - Former Vice President - President of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Association for Promoting Education; leaders and former leaders of ministries, departments, branches, central socio-political organizations; generals and senior officers of the People's Armed Forces...

Delegates from Ha Nam province included comrade Le Thi Thuy - Member of the Party Central Committee - Deputy Secretary of the Government Party Committee - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrade Dinh Thi Lua - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrade Truong Quoc Huy - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Most Venerable Thich Thanh Quyet - Vice Chairman of the Central Executive Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha - President of the Hanoi Buddhist Academy - Head of the Executive Board of the Ha Nam Provincial Buddhist Sangha; comrades: Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Council, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, former leaders of the province; leaders of: Departments, branches, sectors, socio-political organizations of the province, districts, towns, cities, and a large number of people and tourists from all directions...

Speaking at the ceremony, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Truong Quoc Huy said: After 15 years of organization, the salary distribution ceremony of Duc Thanh Tran Temple has become a beautiful tradition, honoring heroes who have contributed to building and defending the country, while spreading the historical values ​​of the nation. This event reminds future generations to cherish the past, express respect to ancestors, strengthen the great national unity bloc and continue the ideology of "in peacetime, we must spare the people's strength to make a plan that is deep-rooted and lasting". Besides, the salary distribution ceremony is also an opportunity to promote the image of Ha Nam's innovation and development to compatriots nationwide and overseas Vietnamese.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee emphasized: Ha Nam is taking advantage of opportunities, promoting potentials and strengths in developing spiritual tourism, gradually transforming towards a sustainable economy, developing rapidly. To ensure a strong economic growth rate, culture needs to be developed synchronously and harmoniously. Preserving and promoting cultural values ​​requires the joint efforts of Party committees and authorities from the central to local levels and the attention and contributions of all people, contributing to affirming Ha Nam's position worthy of the title "World's Leading Local Cultural Destination" in 2023 and "Asia's Leading Emerging Tourist Destination" in 2024 honored by the World Travel Awards Organization. The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee believes that the people of Tran Hung Dao commune, the People's Committee of Ly Nhan district, and other agencies, departments and branches in the province will continue to join hands to maintain and develop the Tran Thuong Temple Festival into a unique cultural brand of the locality, thereby promoting spiritual tourism, making an important contribution to promoting the image of a renewed and developed Ha Nam to tourists from all over the world.

The Saint Tran's Salary Distribution Festival at Tran Thuong Temple is one of the major spring festivals of Ha Nam province, held to commemorate the great contributions of the national hero, the Great King Tran Quoc Tuan. The festival is meant to pray for national peace and prosperity, favorable weather, bountiful harvests, and abundant blessings, contributing to preserving and promoting traditional cultural identity, expressing the aspiration for a prosperous and sustainably developed country. With its great historical and cultural values, in 2017, the Saint Tran's Salary Distribution Festival at Tran Thuong Temple was included in the list of National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

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In favorable weather, large numbers of people and tourists lined up to receive food bags.

This year, the Saint Tran's salary distribution ceremony at Tran Thuong Temple will be held from January 8th and the salary distribution ceremony for people and tourists from all directions will start from the night of January 14th to the early morning of January 15th, At Ty year 2025.

After the traditional spiritual rituals, the food of Saint Tran was celebrated in the secret palace and brought to the food distribution gates to be distributed to the people. At this year's festival, the organizing committee coordinated with the temple to prepare nearly 20,000 food bags including 5 types of traditional grains to be distributed to the people and visitors at 12 food distribution gates outside the outer Nghi Mon of Tran Thuong Temple.

Within the framework of the festival, there are also rich and exciting cultural, artistic and sports activities and booths promoting typical products and famous specialties of Ha Nam to serve the people and tourists attending the festival.

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