Ancestral death anniversary of Hung Kings, in other words, Hung King Temple festival has become one of the greatest national festivals in Viet Nam for a long time. Every year, when the third lunar month comes, all Vietnamese citizens head for Nghia Linh Mountain, Hy Cuong Commune, Lam Thao District, Phu Tho Province in commemoration of Hung kings whose regime was an impressive, brilliant and outstanding start for establishing Viet Nam as a sovereign nation.Hung King Temple festival is annually held from 8th to 11th of the third month in lunar calendar with the main festival day falling on 10th on which Vietnamese working people are given the right to have a day off. Like other festivals in the northern part of Viet Nam, this festival includes two parts: the incense-offering ceremony and the recreational activities.

Hung Kings or Hung Temple festival is a big national festival in Vietnam. Every year, on the 10th of the third lunar month, tens of thousands of people from all over the country go to the Hung Temple to commemorate and pay tribute to the founding of the Hung Kings, the first kings of the nation. Hung Temple is a famous tourist resort located on Nghia Linh Mountain, Hy Cuong Commune, Phong Chau District, Vinh Phu Province, 100km north of Hanoi. It is an architectural complex consisting of ancient temples, temples and shrines. Due to the changes in history and the harshness of time, the buildings at Hung Temple have been restored and rebuilt many times, most recently in 1922. From the foot of the mountain up, through the temple gate, Visitor's stop is the Temple, the legend is where Au Co spawned hundreds of eggs. These hundred gave birth to a hundred children, and fifty went after the father into the sea, and four and nine went up to the mountain. The son remained king, named Hung Vuong (first). Through the Temple is the Trung Temple, where the Hung Kings used to be meeting with the lovers, Lac Prime. At the top of the mountain is the Thuong Temple, the tomb of the sixth (from folk called the grave) from Thuong Temple to the southwest of Gieng Temple, where there is a stone wells all year round. Legend has it that the princess Tien Dung and Ngoc Hoa, the king of the eighteenth-century king, often go to the shampoo there. The festival of Hung Temple includes traditional cultural activities, traditional ceremonial activities and other folk cultural activities. The ritualistic cultural activities that still remain today are the procession King and incense offering. These are two rituals celebrated simultaneously on the day of the convention. The procession starts at the foot of the mountain and then through the temples to the Upper Temple where the incense offering. It is a procession of jingling sounds of traditional instruments and colorful colors of thousands of flags, flowers, parasols, palaces, traditional costumes ... Under the cool foliage of the game, The bronze drum, the procession like a dragon winding the legendary stone steps to the top of the sacred mountain. Contributing to the charm of the festival, in addition to the communion rituals and special cultural activities. These are the oval singing contest, a special form of Vinh Phu folk songs, contests, tug-of-war concerts, or swimming at the confluence of the Bach Hac River, where the Hung Kings practice. the sea warfare. The pilgrimage to the Hung Temple is not just for sightseeing or for taking part in the festive atmosphere of the festival but also for the needs of the spiritual life. Every pilgrim tried to light a few compresses when coming to the land thanks to the smell of smoke to say his thoughts to his ancestors. In the soul of the Vietnamese, each grasp of the ground, the tree here are sacred and nothing is difficult to understand when seeing the tree, rock niche red plugs. Hoi Hung Temple Festival is a beautiful cultural tradition of Vietnamese people. In many festivals held throughout the country, the Hung Temple is still regarded as the most sacred because it is the place where every Vietnamese remembers the father's generosity and grandeur.