Di tích và lễ hội Bắc Giang

Bac Giang is a land of rich cultural history with rich and diversified tangible and intangible heritage values, which have great potentials for tourism development in the period of accelerating industrialization, modernize the country today.

According to statistics of the Management Board of Monuments, by the end of 2007, there were 2,237 relics of all kinds in Bac Giang province, of which, scientific and legal records were compiled to rank 461 historical-cultural relics. Attractions (including 109 national-level relics and 352 provincial-ranked relics). Currently in Bac Giang province, there are many intact monuments, from architectural art, patterns of worshiping objects such as Dinh Lo Hanh (Dong Lo commune, Hiep Hoa district); Phu Lao communal house (Dao My commune, Lang Giang district); Tho Ha communal house (Van Ha commune), Bo Da pagoda (Tien Son commune) Viet Yen district; communal house (Tan Trung commune, Tan Yen district), Duc La pagoda (Tri Yen commune, Yen Dung district) ....

Relics in Bac Giang are still quite intact in terms of origin from architectural art to decorative motifs ... from the time of construction, up to now, still preserved and preserved quite effectively. Coming to the historical-cultural sites, visitors have just admired and understood more about the cultural values ​​of the dynasties: Ly, Tran, Le, Nguyen ..., and also came to the landscape of the Central Delta. The trip to the north is rich and poetic with charming scenery of Khuon Than, Vuc Moss, Suoi Mo, Suoi Tot ... in Bac Giang. Many historians visiting and researching in this land all appreciate the value of historical-cultural relics of relics, because speaking of historical-cultural relics cannot help but mention the festival. Tradition: Diverse in form, rich in content both for the ceremony and the festival.

Bac Giang is a land of festivals as many people often say. The festival here is known to tourists inside and outside the province for many types of festivals such as: Communal house, temple festival, pagoda festival, festival, singing festival, fair ... Festival in Bac Giang is always associated with monuments. the history-culture of the village, the commune, even the region.

Every year, at the beginning of Spring, Bac Giang organizes a series of festivals in monuments from the early days of January. Visitors are immersed in the festive space of communal houses, temples and pagodas spread throughout the province; Typically Xuong Giang festival (Bac Giang city); Y Son Festival (Hiep Hoa district); Tho Ha communal house festival, Bo Da pagoda, water bridge objects in Van village (Viet Yen district); Brush swimming festival (Son Dong district); Soonghao Singing Association (Luc Ngan); Spring festival of Mo, Cao pagoda festival (Luc Nam); Vinh Nghiem Pagoda Festival (Yen Dung) ... Coming to the festival, in addition to admiring the historical-cultural relics, being immersed in the air while the festival is bustling, visitors can also enjoy their own dishes. of each region where the festival takes place such as: Banh chung at Ke festival, Bun at Da Mai festival, My Do tea festival (Bac Giang city); cat ears pie at Tho Ha festival, and it would be remiss not to mention the famous Van wine specialty that has become a brand both at home and abroad in Van Pagoda Festival (Viet Yen); sticky color sticky rice, squeezed shoulder cakes, gio cakes at the Soonghao, Sli, gliding festival (Luc Ngan) ...

Depending on the customs of each locality, the sacrifices in the festivals are also different: At Bo Cho festival (Yen The), the sacrifices are usually a cow and a pig. The sacrificial cow must be a pure yellow fur, cut open with all organs removed, filled with straw and sewed into the abdomen, then put in a kneeling position, when the calf is placed in the middle of the communal house, head adoration into the harem; At the Tho Ha festival (Viet Yen), the cow used the scapegoat was also done very carefully, on the cow's head, people also covered the fat lining of the cow's belly on the cow's head to look like wearing a thin chiffon scarf and put it on the rack and carried it. the procession looks beautiful; in Cao Thuong village, Cao Thuong commune (Tan Yen), there is a custom of worshiping God with pigs with pure black hair color; Phu Khe village, Que Nham commune (Tan Yen) have the ritual of sacrifice with live buffaloes ... In Bac Giang currently circulating over 500 traditional and modern festivals, This is not a small number in many festivals taking place on a national scale. Bac Giang's festival is always associated with historical-cultural relics, associated with a relic of the monument, the village, and the commune where the festival takes place.

Each festival in the historical-cultural relics of Bac Giang has its own characteristics and nuances, the people worshiped in those relics are not the same: Be it a god, a god, or a believer. traditional worship, village tutelary worship, mother worship ... But the most common thing in the festivals in Bac Giang is visitors to the cultural heritage, with the admiration of their predecessors, their worship national hero; gratitude to those who have made meritorious services to the people, to the country and to historical and cultural celebrities. Through beliefs of worship with a revered heart and praying together for nationality, people and security, each person makes himself and herself a blessing, a blessing, a gift, a wish for a gift, and a prosperous prosperity every time he goes attending the early spring festival, as well as other events of the year. At the same time, visitors also enjoy the arts and culture of Bac Giang such as: art of lute, sex, singing Soong hao, Sli gliding in Luc Ngan, Son Dong; sing quan quan in Việt Yên; enjoy the harp in Thai Dao (Lang Giang); Especially, when summer comes around July, tourists coming to Luc Ngan district will have a chance to bathe in the eyes of red, laden litchi hills and enjoy the unforgettable sweetness of Luc Ngan litchi.

Monuments and festivals in Bac Giang have been focused on preserving and promoting the people's life in Culture, Sports and Tourism as well as the People's Committee; It is the potential and strength of Bac Giang in the immediate and long-term tourism development. Hopefully, each relic and festival in Bac Giang will always be preserved and promoted in a more active and more effective way in the future, and along with the conservation of those cultural heritages will contribute to the development of Bac Giang tourism in particular and the whole country in general.