Đình và lễ hội làng Chiền

As one of the ancient villages of Yen Dung district, Chiền village in Noi Hoang commune still preserves a lot of beautiful historical values ​​and customs.

Chiền village was formerly located in Nội Hoàng commune, Phúc Tàng district, Yên Dũng district, Lang Giang district, Kinh Bắc town. Today Chiền village is one of the six villages of Nội Hoàng commune, Yên Dũng district, Bắc Giang province, located at the foot of Nham Biền mountain, where the terrain "Longhu gathers" with the winding river opening and the towering mountains. again. Chiền village currently has 265 households with over 1,000 inhabitants. Over time, due to subsistence living from Chiền village, people started reclaiming and opening land to form new villages such as Si and Gia. But 3 branches that share a common. The physical attachment of the people in the three villages is most evident in the days of tears. For Chiền village, it can be said that this is a countryside with a long history of establishing a village and currently preserving and preserving many ancient features of a Kinh Bac town.

Prominent among the center of the village is the temple temple. Dinh is located on a high ground overlooking the southwest. In front of the communal house is an inter-village road, three sides surrounding the house are crowded residential areas. The temple worships Cao Son - Quy Minh Dai Vuong and Dong Dinh Dai Vuong, these are the gods who have made great contributions to fighting foreign invaders and defending the Fatherland, recognized and distinguished by the feudal dynasties of Vietnam. According to the records of the Duong family of Chiền village: in the Lê Lê dynasty, the Duong family of Chiền village, with Mr. Dương Quốc Chính, the mandarin of the court, had the merit of building and repairing the communal house. Two stone steles erected in Vinh Khanh year (1729) are still stored here with the content of memorizing the merits of the deities who contributed to the village and the regulations of the village in the days. the rules took place at home. Thus, it can be affirmed that the Chiền dynasty was started constructing from the Late Lê dynasty and was greatly remodeled and embellished in the Nguyen dynasty and later periods. Over the years and home wars were destroyed by the French colonialists. In 1999, officials and people of Chiền village gave up their money and efforts to rebuild the communal house. Dinh Chien is designed in Dinh shape, including a three-seat vestibule court with a three-room harem court. In the communal house still preserves a lot of precious documents and artifacts such as the throne, tablets, incense sticks, bowls, steles, diaphragm, couplets. Dinh Hien has just been ranked as a historical and cultural relic at the provincial level by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bac Giang. Chiền village officials and people gave money and efforts to rebuild the communal house. Dinh Chien is designed in Dinh shape, including a three-seat vestibule court with a three-room harem court. In the communal house still preserves a lot of precious documents and artifacts such as the throne, tablets, incense sticks, bowls, steles, diaphragm, couplets. Dinh Hien has just been ranked as a historical and cultural relic at the provincial level by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bac Giang. Chiền village officials and people gave money and efforts to rebuild the communal house. Dinh Chien is designed in Dinh shape, including a three-seat vestibule court with a three-room harem court. In the communal house still preserves a lot of precious documents and artifacts such as the throne, tablets, incense sticks, bowls, steles, diaphragm, couplets. Dinh Hien has just been ranked as a historical and cultural relic at the provincial level by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Bac Giang.

Chie village festival takes place in three days on the 8th, 9th and 10th of the 8th lunar month every year for the villagers to commemorate the tutelary meritorious people to their homeland, the country, pray for favorable rain and wind, and the peaceful nation . Chiền village association has separate customs that few places have, that is the custom of worshiping the spirit of water buffaloes and the procession of returning to the communal house. The Le village rules from the past stipulate that the festival must take place to worship the buffaloes. From the early morning of the opening ceremony, representatives of the Village Festival Organizing Committee gathered enough to hold a buffalo festival. Buffaloes were chosen to be slaughtered, then slaughtered and slaughtered to sacrifice to the tutelary genie, then divided equally among households to make the char in the festival. Buffaloes for ceremonies must be big, healthy and fat dreams, so people here think that this is the respect for the tutelary god, increasing the solemn and sacred part and bringing luck to the villagers in the whole village. year. The opening day is also the day the village organizes a procession to return home. The three villages Chiền, Si, Gia, which prepared it include sticky rice, chickens, pig heads, fruits, etc. The procession team gathered at one place, then the communion house. At the front of each village procession is a typical family elected and revered by the village. The village rules stipulate that the family chosen to receive the family must be a married couple, from 75 years of age or older, live in harmony, and well abide by the Party and State's policies and laws. , the village’s convention. It is an honor of the family and also has a great educational significance for all classes of people who constantly nurture complete family happiness. Water buffaloes and procession are two unique customs here, inherent from ancient times, handed down to this day. Chie village festival is organized around the communal house area for 3 days with many traditional folk games such as blindfolding, beating chess, playing chess, fighting chickens, catching ducks ... attracting a large number of people to participate. In recent years, the Organizing Committee of the village of Chiền village has also organized a program of quan quan singing on the boat, cultural and arts exchanges in the closing night to increase the lively part for the festival.

In the movement of economic development and new cultural construction in Chiền hamlet, Nội Hoàng commune, it is impossible not to mention the role of the village cellar and the solidarity of the people. The district Party cell for many years achieved the title of clean, strong, always leading in the movement activities of the commune, especially in 8 consecutive years the village was recognized as a provincial cultural village. The good cultural traditions from thousands of ancestors handed down in each citizen helped cadres and villagers here to build a prosperous and happy life.