Nguyen Kim Bay, chief security officer of the Hung Temple’s Management Board, said infrastructure has been well prepared to ensure traffic safety.“Every year, a large number of people come here to pay tribute to the Hung Kings, the legendary founders of the Vietnamese nation. During the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) we expect to receive 10,000 to 20,000 pilgrims every day,” said Mr Bay.The Hung Temple is considered one the most sacred places in Vietnam, where the Hung Kings built the nation 4,000 years ago. People come to pray for good luck in the New Year and go for sight-seeing in the early days of spring.
"When we drink water, we remember its sources. "When we eat a sweet fruit, we are grateful to those who plant it." Gratitude to ancestors is an axiom of Vietnamese life and culture, and the event that gives greatest expression to this gratitude is the Hung Kings Memorial Day, which falls on the 10th of the third lunar month (which falls on April 6 this year on the Gregorian calendar). The nation as a whole pays tributes to its legendary founders on this day. After lighting incense at the Celestial Temple on top of Nghĩa Lĩnh Mountain to pay tributes…... [read more]
Opening: 06:00 pm, Thu 06 Apr 2017 Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers, 88 Dong Khoi Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City Get your stomach ready for a special buffet night to celebrate Hung Kings' Day. On Thursday night, guests will be able to enjoy a wide range of seafood, Vietnamese, Indian, Pan Asian corner and Japanese specialties. They include various choices of salad, oven roasted prime ribs with Yorkshire pudding, suckling pig, baked whole sturgeon, foie gras and baby lobster cooked to order, oysters with cheese and spinach, deep fried spring rolls, stir-fried snails with lemongrass coconut milk, crispy…... [read more]
Crowds of people queued up to pay tribute to General Vo Nguyen Giap at his Hanoi home at 30 Hoang Dieu Street on October 4 on the occasion his one-year death anniversary. Nguyen Thiet Nang from Nam Tu Liem District came with his son. Nang said he was taking the boy to pay the tribute because he wanted his son to know about the great contributions that others had made for the country, which now allow him a comfortable life. Giap, the first Vietnamese general, was born on August 25, 1911 in An Xa village, Loc Thuy Commune, Le Thuy…... [read more]
Thousands of Vietnamese people are gathering at the Hung Kings' Temple Festival in Phu Tho Province today to pay tribute on the Death Anniversary of the Hung Kings. The festival is held annually on the 10th day of the third lunar month in honour of Vietnam's traditional founders and its first emperors. Member of the Politburo and Standing Secretary of Secretariat of the Central Committee Le Hong Anh, Member of the Politburo and Chair of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan, minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh and leaders of Phu Tho…... [read more]
According to statistic from the management board of the President Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, about 16,000 foreign and Vietnamese visitors paid tribute to the mausoleum on May Day. In the first four months of this year, about 221,000 people paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum, increasing 20% in comparison with the four previous months last year. Also according to the mausoleum's management board, on holidays such as the anniversary of the Hung King's death, southern Liberation Day on April 30th and the May Day, the board cooperated with Ba Dinh cultural and historical relics, Hanoi and its related…... [read more]
