It is the confirmation made by Nguyen Thi Thu Cuc, the Deputy Chairwoman of Thu Dau Mot City cum Head of steering board of Lunar mid-January Festival 2019 in recent press conference on sharing information about the festival.
The crowd is seen at Binh Duong Mazu Goddess Temple prior to the major festive days
Many industries, many people join in
Leaders of Thu Dau Mot City People's Committee, representatives of departments and boards as well as representatives of the Board of Management of the temple of Mazu Goddess (Phu Cuong ward, Thu Dau Mot city) shared their determination together present a safe, civilized and free festive season to make a good impression in the hearts of tourists. Accordingly, the festival of full moon in January for many years is no longer a folk belief festival of the Chinese community in Binh Duong, but a festival that is paid attention by local authorities and people to create a cultural festival. Assembly is rich for this land.
With Thu Dau Mot City, the first full moon festival in the city focuses on 3 main points: Mazu Goddess Temple in Phu Cuong ward, Ba pagoda base 2 in Hoa Phu ward and Ba Bung Cau in Hiep An ward. This year, at Ba pagoda in Phu Cuong ward, the peak is held in 4 days from 16 to 19-2 (aimed at the 12th to the first month of January). The procession of palanquin procession is still carried out from 15 to 18 hours on the full moon in January, the schedule is unchanged compared to the previous years. Particularly, Ba pagoda in Hoa Phu ward will hold a procession on February 13 (on the 9th day of the first lunar month). The ceremony of offering the Mazu Goddess here takes place from 16:00 to 19:00 according to the route from Ba Thien Hau temple in Hoa Phu ward, moving along Le Hoan road to the roads of Le Lai, Le Loi and Nguyen Hue, 7 ha roundabout and return to the temple. Festivities at Ba Bung Cau temple remain the same as every year with rituals to pray for national security.
Mr. Tran Minh Tam, Deputy Head of Thu Dau Mot City Police, said the activities of maintaining order and security and preventing traffic congestion were taken into consideration before, during and after the Lunar New Year as well as the peak of the full-moon festival season. first. Regarding the listed price issue as well as food safety and hygiene, Mr. Le Huu Tho, Head of Market Management Team No. 1, said that the inspection will be strengthened during the festival of the Full Moon in January. Besides, this year the Organizing Committee also established many order teams, anti-rowing. Venerable Thich Thien Hung, the representative of the provincial committee of the Buddhist Church in Vietnam, also said that the situation of fake mendicants in front of the pagoda in the pagoda is like every year. It is one of the pictures not beautiful and has been resolved in the last 3 years. The provincial committee of the Vietnamese Buddhist Church instructed the temples to not allow monks to beg for food during the festival season, so if there is this image, they are just disguise.
Towards a free festival
As noted by us, at the worshiping facilities in Thu Dau Mot City, this year the free work is focused. In addition to the facilities of Ba pagoda of the Chinese community, the temples in the city such as Hoi Khanh, Tibet, Hoi An ... also have free activities from incense, limiting burning votive gold to create security, civilization and beauty in the festive season.
On the side of Thanh Doan Thu Dau Mot City participating in the free festival, Mr. Le Tuan Anh, Secretary of the Youth Union, said this year, organizing the Youth Union - City Youth Union continue to implement the Spring Volunteer program. In which, focusing on mobilizing car repairmen to support car patching points; organizing the collection of sharp objects, sharp, iron and steel on the road sections allocated; guide the way, support drinking water for pedestrians, visitors to visit the pagoda Ba Thien Hau pagoda. The guild unions all went to the army from the 16th to the end of February 19 (aimed at the 12th day of the lunar month of the lunar calendar). Free patches for vehicles and water distribution include: Geological crossroads area, from Dai Nam tourist area to Suoi Giua toll collection area (Binh Duong boulevard), Ba Thien Hau pagoda area Binh Binh new city Duong, Yersin route, Co.opmart roundabout - Binh Duong bus station. The Youth Union also established 7 volunteer teams to organize propaganda, mobilize pilgrims, people to abandon garbage in the prescribed places, not littering, keeping environmental sanitation, to collect garbage. , organized 2 volunteer teams in place, distributed talent trees and free incense sticks of the city at area 2 at the beginning of Nguyen Du park road.
In addition, the Union also established a rescue team, helping people on the road. The Standing Committee of the Ward Delegates actively coordinated with the Red Cross of the unit to set up rescue teams, help people on the road, timely aid when an accident occurred; coordinate with functional agencies in settling if there are cases of traffic accidents. At the same time, the youth union members also coordinate with the local police, military and crime prevention teams to regularly patrol, guard and regulate traffic, contributing to maintaining security. order in the peak of the festival.
On this occasion, volunteer motorbike teams, free buses from Thanh Le Cultural Park will take pilgrims to the temple to avoid traffic jams. In addition, visitors can access free wifi (sponsored by Viettel) to facilitate access and sharing information about festivals with relatives and friends. Ms. Nguyen Thu Cuc added that a new feature of this year is that voluntary activities are not only spontaneously carried out by organizations and individuals but the organizers will coordinate with them. There will be 3 points for those who perform the volunteer work which is near Nguyen Du school (Yersin street), Phu Cuong park and gas station on Cach Mang Thang Tam street. water, free food to customers incense. Officials of the City Women's Union will also have logistics to help volunteer members. In addition, the issue of health care, food safety and hygiene has also been directed by the City Health Department to build many stations to receive tourists when there are health problems. "Visitors will not be thirsty, not hungry when coming to Ba Rang festival in January," said Nguyen Thu Cuc. Thus, visitors can be completely assured when they come to Binh Duong to visit Ba pagoda without worrying about missed meals, missed sugar or problems of food safety and hygiene, because this is one of the problems that the Steering Committee as well as the pagoda management board, Thien Hau is most interested in this festival season.
With the efforts of the Organizing Committee, with the hospitality of the Binh Duong people, pilgrims coming to the festival in January this year will surely become more and more crowded and the image of a friendly, hospitable Binh Duong more and more widely promoted.
Reported by Quynh Nhu – Translated by Vi Bao
