{"id":3160,"date":"2020-01-17T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T09:53:18","slug":"ring-out-the-old-and-ring-in-the-new-ceremonies-at-thang-long-imperial-citadel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/ring-out-the-old-and-ring-in-the-new-ceremonies-at-thang-long-imperial-citadel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cRing out the old and ring in the new\u201d ceremonies at Th\u0103ng Long Imperial Citadel"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the morning of the 23rd<\/sup> day of the 12th<\/sup> lunar month this year, the Th\u0103ng Long – H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i Heritage Conservation Centre conducted the \u201cring out the old and ring in the new\u201d ceremonies, representing some traditional rituals in the palaces of yore, such as calendar-giving, ablution of votive objects, worshipping of Kitchen Gods and erection of the new year\u2019s tree \u201cc\u00e2y n\u00eau<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"ongcongongtao01\"<\/p>\n

Delegates offering incense with reverence.<\/em><\/p>\n

In attendance at the ceremonies were Ms. B\u00e0 Ng\u00f4 Th\u1ecb Thanh H\u1eb1ng, Vice Party Secretary of Hanoi, scientists and many visitors from near and far.<\/p>\n

According to Vietnamese customs and mores, the Lunar New Year or T\u1ebft Nguy\u00ean \u0111\u00e1n<\/em> is the marker of the transition from the old year to a new one. This is the biggest festival of the year celebrated by the family, the village, and community since the days of yore. T\u1ebft<\/em> is also when people try to complete the last stuffs of a busy year to welcome in a new one full of hope and aspirations.<\/p>\n

\"ongcongongtao02\"<\/p>\n

\u201cCarp release\u201d ceremony in the ancient river inside Th\u0103ng Long Imperial Citadel.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the old palaces of Th\u0103ng Long, T\u1ebft was a lot more solemn and important, because back then the kings and his court represented the country\u2019s national prosperity and popular bliss, and therefore, the new year ceremonies were very solemnly conducted to reflect and demonstrate the regal power of \u201cHeaven\u2019s Son\u201d. T\u1ebft was not only restricted in the first few days of the new year. Rather, it usually began from early the twelfth month of the old year to the first lunar month of the new one, with many important ceremonies and rituals, conducted in their entirety to form a series of events before, during and after T\u1ebft.<\/p>\n

The festivals before T\u1ebft clearly conveyed the \u201cring out the old and ring in the new\u201d message to see off the old and usher in the new, including a series of festivals such as calendar-giving, ablution of votive objects, worshipping of Kitchen Gods and erection of the new year\u2019s tree \u201cc\u00e2y n\u00eau<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"ongcongongtao03\"<\/p>\n

The New Year tree (C\u00e2y n\u00eau), which heralds the coming of Srping, is erected in front of the Main Gate (\u0110oan M\u00f4n).<\/em><\/p>\n

Festivals and rituals in the royal court were very diverse, conducted in a solemn manner as a sign of reverence to the way of heaven and earth. As the old year went out and the new one came in, people prayed for a harmonious weather for crops as well as abundance and bliss for every family.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of T\u1ebft, all the households and the imperial palaces of Th\u0103ng Long were more splendidly decorated to welcome the new spring.<\/p>\n

Th\u0103ng Long – H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i Heritage Conservation Centre<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the morning of the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month this year, the Th\u0103ng Long – H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i Heritage Conservation Centre conducted the \u201cring out the old and ring in the new\u201d ceremonies, representing some traditional rituals in the palaces of yore, such as calendar-giving, ablution of votive objects, worshipping of Kitchen Gods …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,38,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","category-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoangthanhthanglong.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}