A 10-minute documentary directed by Hoang Son (2011), filed by UNESCO as part of the nomination record for the 2012 inscription of the Worship of Hung Kings in Phu Tho on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. It documents the annual pilgrimage of millions of people to the Hung temple at Nghia Linh mountain in Phu Tho province to commemorate the legendary founding ancestors of the Vietnamese nation and pray for good weather, abundant harvests, good luck and good health, centred on the week-long Ancestral Anniversary Festival of the Hung Kings held at the start of the third lunar month.
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Religious Subject MatterAncestor worship of the Hung Kings, the legendary founding ancestors of Vietnam: UNESCO's own archive record names this outright as the film's subject. 1 Connections
Belongs to Tradition
UNESCO's own Multimedia Archives record for this 2011 documentary names the worship of the Hung Kings, the legendary founding ancestors of Vietnam, outright as its subject, and the ancestral rite it documents remains a living, public part of Vietnamese folk religion.
Source Worship of Hung Kings in Phu Tho (UNESCO Multimedia Archives)
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1. Worship of Hung Kings in Phu Tho (UNESCO Multimedia Archives)
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