‘Suggestions’ of the most sacred tourist spots for the Tet holiday near Hanoi
The cold winter weather gradually turns green spring color, waking up in the warm sun, signaling a new year
From the past to the present, going to the temple and pagoda at the beginning of the year is the beauty of the spiritual culture of the Vietnamese people. Every New Year to spring is the beginning of a new year with many new good wishes and aspirations. Therefore, going to temples and pagodas at the beginning of the year must have been an indispensable activity of every citizen on the occasion of the coming New Year and spring. Below, Vinlove will introduce you to the most sacred places to pray for luck and fortune in Vietnam.
Huong pagoda
Perfume Pagoda is located on the banks of the Day River in the territory of Huong Son Commune, My Duc District, Hanoi City. Every year, every spring, apricot flowers bloom in the mountains of Huong Son, millions of Buddhists from all over the world eagerly gather and visit the Huong pagoda festival.
The Perfume Pagoda Festival takes place on the 6th day of the first lunar month and lasts until the third lunar month. One day before the opening day, all temples, pagodas, communal houses and shrines are full of incense smoke, the festive atmosphere covers the whole Huong Son commune.
Address: Huong Son commune, My Duc district, Hanoi city
Ba Chua Kho Temple
Ba Chua Kho Temple is a famous place to ask for luck to fall and spread, located on the halfway point of Kho mountain, in Co Me area, Vu Ninh commune, Bac Ninh city, Bac Ninh province. This place is not only a historical site but also a place for people from all over the country to make pilgrimage here every year to ask for fortune to fall.
According to oral tradition, those who go to Ba Chua Kho temple at the beginning of the year to borrow money to do business so that in the new year will have a successful year, earn a lot of money and have a favorable business.
Address: Co Me, Dap Cau Ward, Bac Ninh Province
Ong pagoda
Ong Pagoda , also known as Quan De Temple or Nghia An Hoi Quan, is located at 676 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 11, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City. This place is the spiritual address of the Chinese and Vietnamese communities.
Every New Year to spring, people come here to pray every day. Ong Pagoda is famous for being very sacred in praying for luck. Many young people have come here to find the right soul mate for them.
Address: 676 Nguyen Trai Street, Ward 11, District 5, Ho Chi Minh City
Con Temple Nghe An
Con Temple is a famous and sacred historical relic located in Quynh Phuong coastal commune, Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province. According to the people here, Con Temple is at the top both in terms of art as well as in terms of religion. This place worships the Four Saints, who are the goddesses who protect fishermen, which is a fairly popular folk belief among coastal residents in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An and many other places.
Con Temple Festival is held in 3 days from 19-20 to 21 of the first lunar month, attracting a large number of tourists from all over the world to visit. People who come to Con Temple all want to draw a lucky card at the beginning of the year, it is said that if anyone can draw a hexagram number 100, they will have a year of many talents and lots of fortune.
Address: Quynh Phuong, Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province
Chu Dong Tu Temple
Chu Dong Tu Temple in Khoai Chau, Hung Yen is associated with the love between the princess Tien Dung with golden leaves and branches and a poor but very filial boy, Chu Dong Tu. That’s why many people come here on the first days of the year not only to offer incense in memory of one of Vietnam’s “four immortals” and two beautiful wives, Princess Tien Dung and Princess Tay Sa, but Also to pray to find true love, family peace throughout the year.
Festival Chu Dong Tu was held from 10th to February 12th of the lunar calendar.
Address: Da Hoa village, Binh Minh commune, Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen
Duyen Ninh Pagoda
Duyen Ninh Pagoda is famous as a place to pray for charm and self-love, located in Chi Phong ancient village, Truong Yen commune, Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh province. From Ninh Binh city, follow Trang An Avenue 10 km to the temple. Duyen Ninh Pagoda is a place to worship Buddha and 10th-century monks such as Phap Thuan, Khuong Viet and Van Hanh.
According to the people here, Duyen Ninh Pagoda is where the princesses of the Dinh – Le dynasties used to go. Also here, princess Le Thi Phat Ngan and general Ly Cong Uan swore an oath to the sea and gave birth to Ly Phat Ma (later King Ly Thai Tong) in the year 1000. Later, when Ly Thai Tong returned here, he put down the rebellion. changed the name of the pagoda to Duyen Ninh pagoda. At the end of her life, Empress Phat Ngan came here to practice and look after the grave of her father, Emperor Le Dai Hanh.
Here, Queen Phat Ngan cooperated for many couples to become a couple and since then, Duyen Ninh Pagoda has become a famous temple of prayer in the ancient capital of Hoa Lu. That’s why people often come here to pray for fate and pray for themselves if they are unlucky enough to have children.
Address: Trang An, Truong Yen, Hoa Lu, Ninh Binh
Bac Le Temple
Bac Le Temple is located in Tan Thanh commune, Huu Lung district, Lang Son province. This is a typical Mother Temple in our country. The biggest festival of the year is held within 3 days from September 18 to 20 of the lunar calendar. Bac Le Temple is famous as a very sacred place to pray for luck and peace. The temple is located on a high hill, surrounded by hundreds of years old trees.
Bac Le Temple is the place to worship Ba Chua Thuong Ngan, known as the goddess of the mountain. She is the one who looks after, provides and distributes the wealth of the mountains and forests to the people here. In addition, being worshiped in the temple, there is also Chu Be, a real character from the Bac Le region, in the Vietnamese mother’s belief, these are the girls and boys. People here believe that coming here at the beginning of the year will pray for good luck and peace throughout the year.
If you are single or want to pray for family happiness, go to Bac Le Temple . People in the countryside here always believe that this is the most sacred love temple in Lang as well as in Vietnam.
Address: Tan Thanh commune, Huu Lung district, Lang Son province.
Temple of Mr. Hoang Muoi
Temple of Mr. Hoang Muoi or Mo Hac Linh Tu in Hung Nguyen district, Nghe An province is also a place to pray for fortune and luck in Nghe An province. Ong Hoang Muoi Temple worships the Mother Goddess of the Four Palaces, the main god worshiped is Mr. Hoang Muoi. The temple was built in 1634 from the post-Le dynasty on an area of more than 1 hectare in Xuan Am village, Hung Thinh commune, Hung Nguyen district. Hoang Muoi temple also has another place, Cho Cui temple, Xuan Hong commune, Nghi Xuan district, Ha Tinh province.
Every year at the beginning of the year, Mr. Hoang Muoi’s temple welcomes tens of thousands of locals and visitors from all over the world every day. People offer flags, fans, pens, gold coins… to pray for fortune, pray for a peaceful year, pray for their children to pass exams, to be successful in order to glorify their ancestors.
Address: Xuan Am, Hung Nguyen, Nghe An
Bai Dinh Pagoda
Bai Dinh Pagoda is a large temple complex known for many records in Asia. Bai Dinh Pagoda in Vietnam is established as the temple with the largest gilded bronze Buddha in Asia, the temple is known as a favorite place to pray for good luck at the beginning of the year.
Visitors come here not only to admire the giant Buddha statues but also have the opportunity to travel to Trang An scenic area. Bai Dinh Pagoda currently holds many records such as the largest bronze Buddha statue in Asia, the largest bronze Maitreya Buddha statue, the largest temple in Vietnam, the temple with the largest bronze bell, the pagoda with onions. The longest Arhat corridor in Asia, the pagoda with the most Arhat statues in Vietnam, the pagoda with the largest jade well in Vietnam, the pagoda with the largest number of Bodhi trees in Vietnam…
Address: Gia Sinh Commune, Gia Vien, Ninh Binh
Tran Temple
Tran Temple , also known as Tran Mieu, is a famous temple for asking for seals to ask for money at Tran Thua Street, Loc Vuong Ward, Nam Dinh City (near Highway 10). Tran Temple is the place to worship the Tran kings and the mandarins and generals who have contributed to the Tran Dynasty. Every year on the 14th day of the first lunar month, the people of Nam Dinh hold the ceremony of Khai An Tran Temple. Although India was distributed on the night of the 14th, from the 7th and 8th of the Lunar New Year, the Tran temple area was crowded with tourists to visit and offer incense.
Legend has it that the seal is only sacred when it is taken at 23-24 hours of January 14. So tens of thousands and millions of people from all over the world flocked to Tran Temple to jostle and push each other, just hoping to get India at that sacred moment. To ask for the King’s Seal at midnight, people had to wait in long queues, asking for a card long before that.
Address: Tran Thua street, Loc Vuong ward, Nam Dinh city
Phu Tay Ho
Phu Tay Ho is considered one of the most sacred places in Hanoi. Every year, on the occasion of Tet to spring, not only Hanoians, but most tourists from all over the world when visiting Hanoi come here to burn incense, pray for happiness, and pray for fortune with the hope of entering a new year. good luck and well-being. Phu Tay Ho is located on a peninsula protruding between West Lake, formerly an ancient village of Thang Long citadel, located to the east of West Lake. After going to the Phu Tay Ho ceremony, visitors can visit the temple to worship the goddess Lieu Hanh, a talented woman who is good at singing, poetry, and virtue, so she has been deified and worshiped by the people as the Holy Mother. (Holy Mother).
Every year after New Year’s Eve, pilgrims come here in large numbers, just go to the ceremony to be bestowed by the Mother of God and all good luck, while enjoying and admiring the beautiful scenery of West Lake.
Address: 52 Dang Thai Mai Street, Quang An, Tay Ho, Hanoi
Yen Tu Pagoda
Yen Tu Pagoda is one of the Buddhist centers of Vietnam, Yen Tu every year during the festival season attracts hundreds of thousands of pilgrims. Yen Tu Festival is held every year starting from January 10 and lasts until the end of the third lunar month.
For many entrepreneurs, although this is not a famous temple for doing business, it is a very good place to pray for peace. Yen Tu relic area consists of a system of pagodas, am, towers and ancient forests mixed with natural scenery, scattered from Red slope to Yen Tu mountain according to the height gradually in Thuong Yen Cong commune, Uong Bi commune. .
Address: Thuong Yen Cong commune, Uong Bi
Linh Ung Pagoda
The pagoda is located on the top of the mountain in Bai But, Son Tra peninsula, Da Nang (many people call it Linh Ung Bai But Pagoda or Linh Ung Son Tra Pagoda – because Da Nang has 3 Linh Ung Pagodas ) overlooking the East Sea, On one side is Cu Lao Cham Island, on the other side is Hai Van Mountain, on the other side is the quiet Han River flowing to the sea mouth.
Legend has it that during the Nguyen Dynasty, during the reign of King Minh Mang, the fishermen here discovered a Buddha statue on the sand and set up a temple to worship. Since then, like the holy Buddha who blesses the waves and calm the sea, the fishermen have been able to do business and from then on this place has been called Bai But.
Linh Ung Pagoda is located on the top of the mountain, this is a feature so that when visitors come here, they can enjoy the panoramic view of the East Sea and this livable city. At this height, looking out into the distance, you will see a modern, bustling city that is very proud and desirable, and you can see a corner of the vast and vast East Sea, long white sand embracing the sea. , winding along a city length. From there, the mind becomes relaxed.
Address: Linh Ung Pagoda, Hoang Sa, Tho Quang, Son Tra, Da Nang
Loi Am Pagoda
Loi Am Pagoda is a sacred temple with a history of 500 years, built in the 15th century under King Le Thanh Tong, in addition, this temple was also praised as a scenic spot of the Hai Dong region at that time. In 1997, Loi Am Pagoda was ranked as a national historical relic.
In terms of scale, Loi Am Pagoda is not as prestigious as newly built pagodas in many places, but it is worthy of the name of a spiritual temple, quietly hidden in the sacred forest of “Linh Thuu Ky Son” and a place that attracts a large number of tourists. largest in the Southeast Asian temple chain. Not only famous for its sacred and ancient, but Loi Am Pagoda is also known for its charming scenery. The ancient temple is hidden in the mountains, amidst thousands of mountains of clouds, vast green pine trees and stretches of pineapple carpet. Anyone who comes to this temple will not stop admiring the magnificent beauty of nature here.
January is a month chosen by many Buddhists as the right time to visit. Because this is the time when most of the rituals are held here such as: Praying for national peace and security; New Year’s greetings; pray for favorable rain and wind, all good luck… On the first day of the year, you go to the temple to pray for peace and happiness, you will be lucky to be able to visit the enchanting beautiful scenery, mingle with the primitive nature, and let go of your daily worries. hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Address: Dai Yen ward, Ha Long city, Quang Ninh.
Bia Ba Communal House (Hanoi)
Bia Ba communal house is located in the complex of La Khe cultural relics, Ha Dong, Hanoi. Her stele is dedicated to the Virgin Mary Tran Thi Hoang Phi. She was born in 1511, the daughter of a great minister of the Le dynasty – Duke Tran Tran, who lived in the village. She was endowed with intelligence, meekness and beauty, so many prestigious families at the time wanted to take her as a bride. In 1527, during the reign of Mac Thai To, the king chose her to be the concubine for Crown Prince Mac Dang Doanh. In 1530, when the Crown Prince ascended to the throne, she was appointed as the Second Palace. When she entered the palace, she wholeheartedly supported the king to help the country. In 1538, a tragedy occurred between Mac and Le, and she decided to leave the magnificent jade palace to live in her hometown. She died when she was 27 years old. Regretful for his wife, gentle, so after the funeral was completed, the king let the stele maker record her merits.
People come here often to pray for peace, luck, fortune, fortune, promotion, passing exams, buying a house and then selling a house, winning a business contract… Mainly still begging in business. business.
Address: La Khe village, Ha Dong, Hanoi
Vinh Nghiem Pagoda
Located on a land area of more than 6,000 m2 at 339 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 3. Vinh Nghiem Pagoda has a unique architecture of the Ly – Tran dynasties that you will feel like you are visiting a temple in the region. So north. Entering the temple, many people will be overwhelmed by the massive statue of Quan Am Buddha. Go up the stairs, turn left is a 7-story tower where each floor has an altar of Quan Thai Am Bodhisattva. So when you come here, don’t forget to bring candles and flowers to pray for fortune, pray for a peaceful and lucky new year for yourself and your family.
Address: 339 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia (near Cong Ly Bridge), Ward 7, District 3
Above, Vinlove has introduced to you the most sacred places to pray for luck and fortune in Vietnam. Please go and wish the best for you and your family.
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