Visit Bac Ninh Lim Association

At the beginning of spring, everyone is excited and looking forward to the festivals that take place every year in many places. And one of the famous traditional festivals that everyone knows is the Lim Festival in Bac Ninh. Lim festival is an association of ancient villages located around Lim mountain and the banks of Tieu Tuong river, is a major festival of the region, expressing the most profoundly the cultural, artistic and spiritual beliefs of the people of Kinh Bac.

The Origin of the Lim Hội

The history of the Lim Society  has been passed down orally in many different versions. There is a perception that: Lim festival originated from pagoda festival, singing festival, related to the singing of Truong Chi guy, but the old mark left behind is the image of the Tieu Tuong river quite clearly in the villages of Lim region. This theory is based on the legend of Truong Chi – My Nuong.

The Lim Association has a very long history, and has grown to the size of a general association (total Noi Due). On the basis of traditional festivals of villages in Noi Due (including 6 communes and wards: Noi Due (Dinh Ca and Lo Bao), Noi Due Khanh, Noi Due Nam, Lung Giang, Xuan O and ward singing the gate of Tien communal house Du (later Due Dong) with a variety of processions, sacrifices and folk art activities, such as: singing military drums, cheo singing, ca tru, tuong singing and quan ho singing…, vien district Cong Do Nguyen Thuy – a native of Dinh Ca village, Noi Due, Kinh Bac province, has donated much of his fields and gardens and money to General Noi Due to restore temples and pagodas, open festivals, and maintain fine customs and traditions. naturalization ceremony to pray for blessings on the occasion of January every year, according to the tradition of “spring autumn and second period”. Thus,

Forty years later, in the second half of the eighteenth century, the same people from Dinh Ca village, the general Nguyen Dinh Dien continued to develop and renew the  Lim association . He provided fields and money for the general assembly to move the general assembly from the fall of August to the spring of January. He also spent money to buy half of Hong Van mountain (or Lim mountain) to build his tomb on the top of the mountain.

The Lim Society was maintained throughout the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. During the resistance wars against the French colonialists and the Americans to save the country, the Lim association was not opened for decades until the years after the renovation. Today, the festival is opened on the 13th day of the first lunar month every year.

Due to its expansion in both area and scale, it must be said that  Lim  festival is a large and elaborately organized festival.

Who does Bac Ninh Lim Association worship?

The festival space takes Lim hill as the center, with Lim pagoda – the place to worship Mr. Hieu Trung Hau – the founder of Quan ho singing custom and takes place in 3 surrounding localities: Noi Due commune, Lien Bao commune and town Lim. Lim festival usually lasts for about 3 days (from the 12th to 14th of the first lunar month every year), in which the 13th day is the main festival with many concentrated activities. Therefore, tourists also focus on  traveling to Bac Ninh  on the 13th to be present at the Lim festival in the main festival.

The Lim festival begins with a procession. Members of the procession are people who are dressed in ancient costumes with colorful colors. On the main holiday (January 13) with processions and sacrifices to the village lords, famous female gods and goddesses of the homeland at Co Lung temple, Hong Van mausoleum, Duke Do Nguyen Thuy’s mausoleum, offering incense. Worshiping Buddha and Midwife A at Hong An Pagoda. In addition to the ceremony, the festival also has many folk games such as martial arts, wrestling, chess, fairy swings, weaving contests, rice cooking… and the most special part is festival singing.

The ancient tradition left behind a special fascinating and passionate custom that only Bac Ninh has, which is cultural activities of Quan ho folk singing – a type of folk song that has become a common cultural property of the people. ethnicity. Quan ho folk song singing takes place from January 12 in Lim (Hong An pagoda yard and Quan ho camps) and throughout pagodas and communal houses. Quan ho Bac Ninh singing   festival takes place anywhere: in the house, on the communal house yard, in front of the temple or floating on basket boats in the middle of ponds and lakes – the ancient vestiges of the Tieu Tuong line that once echoed the song. Truong Chi captivated the beautiful My Nuong. As long as there are brothers and sisters there.

Immediately, he turbaned and dressed in a turban, immediately came to meet and greet each other in a friendly, warm, delicate and elegant manner in the manner of Quan ho singers. with folk songs reaching a high artistic level, which is a smooth and passionate combination of poetry and music to express pure love, wholeheartedly for the other, faithful and longing for love. love couple. If you have the opportunity to enjoy the Quan Ho songs sung by the artisans of Kinh Bac, it will definitely be an experience that makes you “remember forever”.

Take coal, fan the water, see off the tea people eat.

This tea is so delicious, man.

He ate a cup for me willingly.

And when it’s time to go home, the parting is hard to end, because the lyrics always seem to hold the guests back:

Oh, people do about…

Lim  festival is a traditional festival that surely travel lovers or even those who love the beauty of national culture should experience. The three-piece dresses, the three-piece hat, the sports straps, the oak silk bib, the ruffle boxes, the handkerchief, the brocade vest… as if it contains the spring vitality of man and creation. The way the men and women organize the Lim festival is also very special, each symbol and gesture seems to carry something unusually delicate of the Northern Kinh people. Therefore, it is no coincidence that Quan Ho has become an intangible culture, a traditional culture of the Vietnamese nation.

Some pictures of young women in Quan ho’s clothes at  Lim festival  2017:

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