Part2 – Temple of Saint Giong – Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, where unique historical and cultural values are transmitted for more than 1,000 years

Temple of Saint Giong – Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, where unique historical and cultural values are transmitted for 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 handed 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, roofed with roof tiles, square ground, roof bank, strip embankment with lemon flower shape, geometric patterns, 8 corner blades with flip leaf shape. The roof frame system is supported by 4 rows of columns, the structure is because of the upper and lower slopes.
Next is the Pre-Sacrificial and the Middle-Priest where the rituals are performed. The sacrifice consists of 5 compartments, 2 floors, and a double-storey match roof. The center consists of 5 compartments, 2 floors, roof tiled with comedy nose, two gables build the wall, the front and back are left blank, the frame consists of 6 sets of wood, supporting 6 rows of pillars, 4 because of the middle style. Upper Dinh, lower men, 2 sets of gongs, lower, seven porches.
Temple of Saint Giong – Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity, where unique historical and cultural values are transmitted over 1,000 years…

Two stone lions, ancient treasures of the temple were made during the reign of King Le Du Tong (1705), photo by LAG Media

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Here, visitors can easily see the “age” difference when above the wooden pillars dating from the Le Trung Hung period (17th century) are murals recording the famous words of Uncle Ho. and poems To Huu.
The harem has an architectural plan in the form of the word Cong, including the outer palace, the harem and the harem. In the harem, there is a statue of Saint Giong and the guardian generals, which is also the place to keep the ordinations of the feudal dynasties. We can see: The statue of Saint Giong is quite large, placed in the main hall, sitting between two rows of statues of 6 mandarins, martial servants, 2 phoenixes and 4 soldiers.
Ta and organic are 2 rows of houses, each side has 9 compartments, roof tiled with comedy nose. The guest house has a rectangular floor plan, the two ends of the roof are covered with stylized dragon leaves.
The Giam house inside of the Temple has a U-shaped floor plan, including the main palace and two rows of horizontal houses on either side. The main palace consists of 5 compartments, 2 floors, roofed with tiled noses, 6 sets because the wood is structured in the style of upper gongs, lower people sitting, seven porches, leaning on 6 rows of pillars.
Every year, from the 7th to the 9th of the fourth lunar month, Giong Temple Festival will take place at Phu Dong Temple, attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to worship.

Iron horse of Saint Giong in the past, photo by LAG Media

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Giong Festival is preserved by the people of Phu Dong village and passed on basically intact from generation to generation. Giong Festival in Phu Dong Temple is a folk theater, taking place in a large space with thousands of main roles as people in order to educate the nation’s tradition of patriotism, national pride, and peace-loving. Vietnam.
With its unique features and great values, in 2010, Giong Festival was inscribed by UNESCO as “The Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.
Along with the Giong Festival, Phu Dong Temple is really an attractive destination for tourists from near and far because this is where the beautiful legend of Vietnamese people was born in the process of building and defending the country.
We hope this article about Giong Temple not only helps us remember the history of the boy from Giong village, the boy who after three years has grown up to become a hero swinging iron rods, uprooting bamboo clumps to fight the enemy – but above all find their own quiet moments to remember the heroic roots of the nation.

Space of the Pre-Sacrificial and Mid-Sacrificial areas of the Temple of Saint Giong, photo by LAG Media

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Hopefully the content of this article will help you be more proud of the patriotic tradition of our Vietnamese people.
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