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February 3, 2023
Unique traditional contest of national wrestling in the Mac dynasty
The contest takes place from February 1 to 3 (January 11-13, the year of the Rabbit) at the relic From the Mac family roadCo Trai Street, Ngu Doan Commune, Kien Thuy District, Hai Phong City attracted 64 wrestlers from 13 teams across the country to participate, competing in 8 weight classes. Including 6 weight classes for men with $ 47 men and 2 weight classes for women with $ 17 women.
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The ceremony, the delegates and representatives of the athletes went to the wrestling ring. |
The opening ceremony of the contest was the ceremony of Reporting and Offering incense to Thai To Nhan Minh Cao Emperor Mac Dang Dung that took place in front of the incense altar of the National Historic Site of Tu Duong family of Mac Co Trai, the sacrifice group, and the delegates. Together with representatives of the athletes went to the wrestling ring set up at the Lower Stadium from the road.
This was followed by the performance of “Acacia in Heaven” performed by artists and actors of Hai Phong Cheo Doan, reminiscent of the historic moment when the drums of the imperial capital and the imperial loudspeakers chanted the name of athlete Mac Dang Dung who won. All wrestlers compete to win the title of the famous Vo Trang Nguyen.
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| Male wrestlers compete at the competition |
A special feature is the National prize will be opened with a unique object glue, which is a glue object of worship. Wrestlers participating in worship must be strong, technically and tactically skilled wrestlers or veterans who have participated in the competition for many years and have achieved great results.
Participating in the worship of this year’s contest are two old wrestlers Pham Van Loa and Nguyen Hong Dieu.
This is also a special activity of each national wrestling contest, worshiping objects is first of all an activity of spiritual significance to report to the gods regarding the festival and convey the wishes of the people for favorable rain. Peaceful wind, bountiful crops.
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| The contest is organized to promote the unique folklore values of the nation. |
Besides, worshiping takes place with slow, beautiful movements performed by two talented and virtuous wrestlers. This is really a spiritual dish that has been raised to the artistic level of our Vietnamese traditional wrestling. After the glue of the worshiping object, the glue of the object of worship officially took place.
The contest is held annually in the spring (following the traditional Tet of the nation) in order to gradually form a unique tourism product, build a Famous brands of objects in the Mac Dynasty in the land of ancient Duong Kinh and present-day Kien Thuy, contributing to the development of tourism, services, local socio-economic development and the city. The contest is organized for the purpose of constantly encouraging and promoting the movement of teaching and practicing national wrestling among a large number of people, in order to preserve and promote the cultural and sports traditions of the nation. the time to restore and promote the unique folklore values of people in the ancient land of Duong Kinh, to pay tribute to Thai To Nhan Minh Cao Emperor Mac Dang Dung, who was an athlete – Vo Trang Nguyen, enlightened Mac Dynasty.
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| Locals and tourists crowded around to watch the wrestling show |
History books also clearly state that the martial arts tradition of Vietnamese people and society in the Mac dynasty (16th century) was highly appreciated and developed, typically Thai To Nhan Minh Cao Emperor Mac Dang Dung.
Every year, on the occasion of the New Year to Spring, following a hard work and a bountiful harvest, people gather to watch the muscular boys compete with each other in the sound of drums urging and cheering, cheering the heavens and the earth. Right from the early days of national revival, once, on the occasion of the spring season, in the atmosphere of the Co Trai wrestling festival taking place jubilantly, far from the price to visit, the Emperor taught and wished for national wrestling in the countryside. The scent is forever passed on.
The wrestling competition aims to arouse the martial spirit, train the mind and body, bring benefits in labor production and protect the country, is a proud tradition of the homeland and the nation.
I followed Sergio Massa’s announcement live about the new “Fair Prices”
The Economy Minister will extend the plan that seeks to counteract inflation until June of this year, with the aim of achieving the self-imposed goals of decelerating prices.
The presentation will be at noon in the Centro Cultural Kirchner where will there be news compared to what was known up to now. The first thing is that it will be a five month planthat is to say, that the prices that will be communicated will last until June 30 with the new news of incorporation of new productsIn total there are fifteen items.
Among the items that will be integrated are footwear e textile clothing that they were not in the Fair Prices initial and which were among those that increased the most. They are added to cell phones, construction elements, household appliances, bicycles, motorcycles, fuels and the products of the basic basket.
Around 2000 products will keep their frozen prices and the rest of the products are lowered the roof of raises from 4%, which had been stipulated in the initial program, to 3.2%, which since the Commerce secretary insist on ensuring that it is not an imposition, but that there is a agreement that was done with the different sectors to achieve the new plan.
12.00 Launch of the extension of “Fair Prices”
The Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, together with the Secretary of Commerce, Matías Tombolini; quartermasters; and representatives of the business and union sectors, launch a new phase of the Fair Prices program at the Kirchner Cultural Center
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Go to La Phu to see the mosquito nets, take a hot bath for the “pigs”
In order to prepare carefully for the sacrifice of the Holy Spirit, the host must raise the “pigs” with a special regime, the food must be clean and safe.
The “pig” procession festival in La Phu commune (Hoai Duc, Hanoi) is an opportunity for the villagers to remember the merits of Tinh Quoc Tam Lang under the 6th Hung Due Vuong who had merit in fighting the enemy to maintain the country. From the early morning of February 3 (ie, January 13 of the lunar calendar), people in La Phu commune were excited to organize sacrifices and processions of “the pig”.

To prepare for the “Mr Pig” festival, at the beginning of the year, each hamlet chooses a family whose members are virtuous and talented, the children in the family must have enough girls and boys, no mourning, no economic income. wealthy enough to raise pigs for the procession.


There have been 3 years of raising “pig” to serve the procession, Mr. Nguyen Duy Ngoc (66 years old, Tien Phong 1 village, La Phu commune, Hoai Duc, Hanoi) said, the time to choose pigs is in February every year. The hamlets will choose pigs, pig standards must be balanced, beautiful and weighing regarding 30 kg. After choosing a pet, the villagers call him “man pig”, the cost of raising the whole village is covered.

“The pigs are raised on a special diet such as eggs, glutinous rice porridge, fresh vegetables. The bran must be rice bran mixed with milled corn or cooked glutinous rice, when feeding vegetables must also be washed, the food bowl and cage are always sprayed. “Mr. pig” is bathed daily, is hooked up to mosquito nets, and installed a cool fan when it’s hot. In the winter, we shower less (with warm water), on days when it’s too cold, we have to burn coals for heating,” Mr. Ngoc shared.


According to Mr. Ngoc, if any “pig” stops eating or falls ill, the chosen family must bring the ceremony to the village communal house to pray for the “pig” to get well. Especially before the festival, “the pig” will eat vegetarian porridge to ensure purity. Usually at the time of sacrifice, each “pig” weighs regarding 270 kg.

At regarding 2pm, each villager contributed to the decoration, from trimming flowers, applying lipstick, making eyes and ears to peeling off the fat leaves to cover the pig, each person had a job and everyone was happy. . Each hamlet is decorated in a different way, but the “pig” must be the most majestic and beautiful to win the village’s prize.


Right from the early followingnoon, many people and visitors from all over the world come to La Phu temple to burn incense and worship.

About 7 hours before the festival begins, many lion dance groups from villages in La Phu commune come out to perform, and people come to see it, making the street bustling.

At this time, security forces are often on duty, guiding vehicles participating in traffic to avoid congestion.

Ms. Nguyen Thanh Binh, Vice Chairman of La Phu Commune People’s Committee (Hoai Duc District, Hanoi City) said that the “Mr Pig” procession festival is an activity to maintain the beauty of traditional culture. Before the festival activities, the Commune People’s Committee asked the Hoai Duc District People’s Committee for the organization’s policy, on the other hand, also developed a plan to ensure safety and civilization during the festival.


