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Kỳ yên Peace Begging Festival takes place from December 15-17 every year, at the village communal house, commemorating the ancestors who founded the village and praying for peace. According to the custom, a Great Ceremony will be held every 3 years. Offerings include sticky rice, meat, tea, wine, fruit cakes, and live pigs. During the three days of the festival, the community performs the following rituals: Opening the gate on the morning of the 15th (opening the communal house door, hanging the ceremonial flag); Mộc Dục (at noon, wrapped in a circle of red silk); Chanting prayers for peace (in the evening, monks and Buddhists perform); On the afternoon of the 16th, the first Tế Hậu ceremony (ceremony of Tiền hiền, Hậu hiền - Tiền vãng, Hậu vãng, Lord of the soil and the ground, and ten types of spirits); Tỉnh Sanh ceremony (sacrifice a live pig in the evening, there is a ritual to puncture the pig's blood, there must be a pig's scream); Bringing a bowl of feathers and pig's blood to bury under the Agriculture God's altar); Đàn Cả (the largest and most important ceremony, sacrificed at midnight, offerings include live pigs, incense, lamps, incense, wine, tea, and water; rituals of offering incense, offering wine, offering fruit, offering tea, reading wishes in Han characters; cutting a square of the front and hind thigh meat to offer to the gods; On the evening of the 17th, the 2nd Tế Hậu ceremony, Xây chầu, Dai Đại Bội, Bội singing, Reverend King, Reverend Marshal, Ceremony to receive the Patriarch Bội singing. |
