Saint Giong Temple-Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity, more than 1,000 years

Phu Dong Temple (Giong Temple worshiping Saint Giong – Phu Dong Thien Vuong), about 21 km from the center of Hanoi City. This is a spiritual tourist destination associated with the legend of Saint Giong passed down through generations of Vietnamese people.
We will continue to see the beautiful landscapes at Giong Temple:
Phuong Dinh is a 2-storey building with 8 roofs, tiled roof, square floor plan, roof and strips covered with lemon flowers, geometric patterns, 8 corner blades decorated with leaf shapes. The roof frame system is supported by 4 rows of columns, the structure is in the form of an upper beam and a lower cone.

Next is the Pre-Saint and the Middle Sacrifice where the rituals are performed. The altar consists of 5 compartments, 2 trays, and a two-story match-stacking roof. Trung Te consists of 5 rooms, 2 shelves, the roof is tiled with funny nose, the two gables are built with walls, the front and back are blank, the frame includes 6 sets of wooden pillars, resting on 6 rows of pillars, 4 pillars in the middle. Upper Dinh, Lower Lower, 2 sets because the upper side has the gong price, the Lower Cong, and the Seven Porches.
Saint Giong Temple – Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity, a place of transmission of unique historical and cultural values for more than 1,000 years…

Here, visitors can easily see the “age” difference when above the wooden pillars from the Le Trung Hung period (17th century) are horizontal paintings recording famous words of Uncle Ho. and To Huu’s poems.
The harem has an architectural plan in the shape of the letter Cong, including the outer palace, the tube and the harem. In the harem, there are statues of Saint Giong and his guardian generals, which is also the place where the ordinations of feudal dynasties are kept. We can see: The statue of Thanh Giong is quite large, placed in the main hall, sitting between two rows of statues of 6 civil servants, martial servants, 2 phoenixes and 4 soldiers.

Left and right are 2 rows of houses, each side has 9 compartments, the roof is tiled with funny nose. The guest house has a Nhat-shaped floor plan, with stylized leaf dragons on both ends of the roof.

Giam’s house inside the Temple has a U-shaped floor plan, including the main palace and two rows of houses on both sides. The main palace consists of 5 rooms, 2 chairs, a tiled roof, 6 sets of wooden rafters structured in the style of an upper gong stand, a lower seat, seven porches, resting on 6 rows of pillars.
On the 7th – 9th day of the 4th lunar month every year, the Giong Festival of Phu Dong temple will take place at Giong Temple, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to worship.
Giong Festival is preserved and passed down basically intact by the people of Phu Dong village from generation to generation. Giong Festival at Phu Dong Temple is a folk theater, taking place in a large space with thousands of main actors being the people to educate the nation’s traditions of patriotism, national pride, and love of peace. Vietnam.
With its uniqueness and great values, in 2010, the Giong Festival was registered by UNESCO as a “Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.

Along with the Giong Festival, Phu Dong Temple is truly an attractive destination for tourists from near and far because this is where the beautiful legend of the Vietnamese people in the process of building and defending the country was born.
We hope this article about Giong Temple not only helps us remember the history of the boy from Giong village, who after three years grew up to become a hero swinging an iron rod, pulling up bamboo clumps to fight the enemy – but above all, find your own quiet moments to remember the heroic roots of the nation.
Hopefully the content of this article will help you be more proud of the patriotic tradition of our Vietnamese people.

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