PANO - The 2016 Tran Temple Traditional Festival opened at the Tran Dynasty historical and cultural relic site in Loc Vuong Ward, Nam Dinh City on September 20 (the twentieth day of the eighth lunar month) to commemorate the 716th death anniversary of General Tran Hung Dao (1300-2016), in the presence of provincial leaders, representatives of various ministries, central agencies and a number of tourists.

At the opening ceremony of the festival

The festival, one of the largest annual festivals in Nam Dinh province, showed people’s gratitude to their ancestors and encouraged people to promote the unyielding spirit of our ancestors in the current national construction and defense cause.

The festival includes a series of solemn rituals and traditional cultural activities such as Kylin, Lion and Dragon dances, water puppetry performances, wrestling, cock-fighting at Tran and Bao Loc Temples and Thap Pagoda in Loc Vuong Ward, Nam Dinh city.

Translated by Lan Phuong