Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival – An Giang

Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival is held annually from the 18th to the 19th day of the tenth lunar month in a temple of the same name – Nguyen Trung Truc Temple, Long Kien Commune, Cho Moi District, An Giang Province.

Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival is organized to worship Nguyen Trung Truc. He was the leader of an insurrection who rose up against the French in the South of Vietnam.

The festival includes such activities as incense-offering ceremony, recalling sacrifices-offering ceremony, re-performance of the battle of destroying a French warships on the Nhat Tao River in the 19th century.

The festival involves boat rowing, Chinese chess and other fun games.