PHU VINH COMMUNAL HOUSE TRADITIONAL FESTIVAL

Phu Vinh Communal House is a cultural and religious site with a long history, closely associated with community life across many generations. According to documents, the communal house was built during the Later Le dynasty. Because its initial location was in a low-lying rice field area that was frequently flooded, in 1712 the local people agreed to move the communal house to its current location.

Phu Vinh Communal House currently worships three Great Kings: Dien Phuc Dai Vuong, An Dinh Dai Vuong, and Cuong Nghi Dai Vuong. Together with the communal house, Quan Phu Vinh is the place of worship for Mother Goddess Vu Thi Phuong. Both relics are ranked as city-level historical and cultural relics.

Not only carrying historical and cultural value, Phu Vinh Communal House is also associated with many revolutionary milestones of the locality. In 1945, in the Rear Palace area, the Viet Minh forces of Phu Vinh village held a rally, declaring the abolition of the feudal government and the establishment of a provisional democratic government. During the resistance war against the US, the communal house was once a place for gathering equipment for the front line, a warehouse storing medicines to treat wounded and sick soldiers, and a supply point for the southern battlefield.

A distinctive feature of the Phu Vinh festival is that it is held in the seventh lunar month, during the flood season, unlike many traditional festivals that usually take place in spring. This is considered a cultural imprint associated with the settlement and production characteristics of residents in the low-lying rice field area; it is a boat racing festival - a rain-praying festival of the wet rice farming people of Phu Vinh village, expressing the aspiration for a year with favorable rain and wind and good crops.

The traditional festival of Phu Vinh village takes place over 3 days, the 16th, 17th, and 18th days of the seventh lunar month, including the ritual and festival parts.

The ritual part includes traditional ceremonies such as worshiping the deities, palanquin procession, incense offering, prayers for blessings, prosperity, good crops, developed production, children's educational progress, and peace and happiness for the people.

The festival part takes place with many cultural, artistic, and folk game activities such as cooking rice, tug of war, sack racing, egg breaking, and rowing boats while singing quan ho... At the communal house yard, cultural programs and performances introducing craft village products take place, contributing to promoting the cultural beauty, people, and traditional products of the locality.