Over time, the Nine-Garden Temple has been restored and renovated with a building designed in the traditional Thai stilt house style, consisting of 9 rooms, each room representing a Muong. Photo: Sach Nguyen The Nine-Room Temple is a harmonious combination of the typical architectural features of the Thai ethnic group, with two staircases, each with nine steps. In the temple, the interior decoration depends on the rooms, the main room is for worshiping Heaven (worshiping Po Pha), worshiping Heaven's daughter (worshiping Nang Xi Da) and worshiping the person who built the village and established the village (worshiping Tao Lo Y), the remaining eight rooms are the same. Photo: Sach Nguyen The Nine-Garden Temple Festival is held from the 14th to the 16th of the second lunar month every year. The festival attracts a large number of locals and tourists from all over the world. Photo: Nhat Thanh
Coming to the Nine-Chamber Temple Festival, visitors can enjoy solemn ceremonies such as the opening ceremony, the proclamation ceremony, the buffalo bathing ceremony and the procession ceremony, the buffalo sacrifice ceremony, the grand ceremony, the opening ceremony and the thanksgiving ceremony, imbued with the Thai ethnic identity of the Western Nghe An region. In the photo: The grand ceremony at the Nine-Chamber Temple. Photo: Sach Nguyen The highlight of the Nine-Chamber Temple Festival in Que Phong district is the buffalo sacrifice ceremony. Photo: Sach Nguyen
The festival is an opportunity for locals and tourists to join in the jubilant atmosphere with folk games, cultural and sports activities imbued with national identity such as: tug of war, crossbow shooting, throwing con, gong fighting, stilt walking, carving competition, gong singing, love duet singing competition... In the photo: Community singing and dancing at the Nine-Room Temple Festival. Photo: Sach Nguyen Bamboo dancing at the Nine-Chamber Temple Festival. Photo: Nguyen Sach The Nine-Chamber Temple Festival has become an indispensable spiritual and cultural activity for the people of Que Phong in particular and tourists from all over the world in general. Coming here, visitors can experience and understand more about the history of the formation of the land, to reflect together and remind each other to preserve, conserve and promote the value of cultural heritages. In the photo: Luong carving - a unique cultural feature of the Thai ethnic group at the Nine-Chamber Temple Festival. Photo: Sach Nguyen
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