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Tro Chieng Festival

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  • The elderly in Yen Ninh Commune offer incense joss-sticks to invite the village’s patron saint to attend the Festival and grant the locals a year of clement weather.
  • Two rows of heavenly soldiers and cheo singing team are waiting to take orders from the elderly.
  • Taking the incense burner of the village’s patron saint to the pagoda’s yard where games are held during the festival.
  • People jubilantly take the palanquin of the patron saint to the pagoda’s yard.
  • An elderly cuts down a tree across the path leading to the pagoda’s gate to open the festival.
  • Cheo singing competition.
  • Rang bua cake-making competition at the festival.
  • A competition to make ball cakes.
  • The competition of Teu snatching flag. Teu is a puppet which is manipulated manually to climb to the tree and take the flag hung at the top of the tree.
  • Tau ma competition in which members of teams try to hit the ball and the team with the most members usually wins the prize.
  • Elephant fighting competition attracts much attention from locals. Elephants are woven from bamboo and controlled to fight each other by five young people. The team whose elephant is knocked out or pushed out of the circle will fail.
  • Heavenly soldiers are reproducing the scene of dispatching troops of General Trinh Thien Bao.
  • Tro Chien Festival attracts participation of a large number of people.
  • The festival ends by burning puppets to send to the village’s patron saint with the hope of having a bumper crop, good health and a peaceful life.
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