Hoang Hoa (Thanh Hoa) has long been known as a district with a unique traditional culture. Right from the first days of the year, many localities have organized festivals to strengthen solidarity and improve people’s health. This is also a way to preserve the nation’s unique culture.
Yesterday morning (the 3rd day of the Lunar New Year) in Hoang Luu commune (Hoang Hoa) enthusiastically organized the Xuan Giap Thin Traditional Wrestling Festival in 2024. Hoang Luu is the “cradle” of national wrestling. Every year, on the first days of spring, Hoang Luu commune bustles with the sound of drums to open the wrestling festival. The traditional wrestling festival of Hoang Luu commune does not distinguish between age, weight class, height, and level.
Competing at this year’s Hoang Luu Commune Traditional Wrestling Festival were many wrestlers of many different ages. Photo: Thuy Anh.
Mr. Vu Ba Linh – Secretary of Hoang Luu Commune Party Committee said that anyone who is healthy and loves wrestling can register to participate with the organizing committee. Competing at this year’s Hoang Luu Commune Traditional Wrestling Festival are many wrestlers of many different ages, including many professionally trained wrestlers.
Hoang Luu Commune Traditional Wrestling Association applies national wrestling competition rules. To win, wrestlers must lift their opponent so that their legs are off the ground or make them fall on their back so that their back and shoulders touch the ground, called “white back and belly”. Knockout competition format, regardless of weight class.
In it, boys fight boys, girls fight girls, children fight children. The winning wrestler is the wrestler who wins the first match. The reward is only an incentive, but the wrestlers are very excited.
Hoang Luu Commune Wrestling Association places great emphasis on martial spirit, so wrestlers are not allowed to use life-threatening attacks such as breaking, twisting, locking joints, attacking with the head, pressing acupuncture points, pulling hair, etc. Attacks the lower body, pharynx, eyes…
The reward is only an incentive, but the wrestlers are very excited. Photo: Thuy Anh.
Xuan Giap Thin 2024 wrestling festival attracts many wrestlers to register to compete. The wrestling festival is cheered by a large number of people and tourists from all over. The sound of drums and cheers cheering the wrestlers echoed throughout the stands. In particular, the Organizing Committee has improved the quality of organization and competition, as well as ensuring the most favorable conditions for a large number of people to watch and cheer.
Wrestlers offer many attractive matches to the audience, professional wrestlers offer the audience highly technical matches; Female wrestlers performed attractive matches amid the cheers of the audience; The young wrestlers enthusiastically participated in the spirit of exchange, learning and training.
Along with the Boat Racing Festival in Hoang Dat and the wrestling festival in Hoang Luu commune, in Hoang Ha, the Wrestling Festival takes place with bold traditional cultural nuances, every time Tet comes and spring comes.
This is a festival that demonstrates the power of unity, whereby members are divided into teams. The more a person can grasp the tickling fruit, the luckier he will be. The lucky person and winner is the one who throws the ball and hits the basket.
The wrestling festival includes 2 parts (ceremony part and festival part). Photo: Thuy Anh.
According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Kien – Head of Dat Tai village, Hoang Ha commune, the wrestling festival includes 2 parts (ceremony part and festival part). To organize tickle wrestling, the people of Hoang Ha commune went to the West Pagoda to report to the village’s Tutelary God allowing their descendants to organize the tickle wrestling festival. After that, regarding 8 unmarried village boys will be selected to carry the palanquin and procession from the West Pagoda to the commune’s stadium. This is where the fighting matches take place.
Previously, on the 2nd day of Tet, Hoang Dat commune also organized a traditional boat racing festival in Tru Ninh cultural village.
The boat racing festival in Tru Ninh village, Hoang Dat commune is held at Dinh Lake, located next to the Tru Ninh village’s historical and cultural relics cluster. According to the elders in the commune, the festival has existed since ancient times, associated with the livelihood of fishing on Tuan Ngu River, also known as Lach Truong River.
The boat racing festival in Tru Ninh village has existed since ancient times, associated with the livelihood of fishing on the Tuan Ngu River. Photo: Thuy Anh.
Mr. Ta Huu Quang – Director of the Center for Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hoang Hoa district said: The festivals taking place at the beginning of spring and maintained every year demonstrate the spirit of love for sports and respect for the traditional culture of ancestors. contributing to promoting the mass sports movement.
“Winning or losing at the festival is not important, the most important thing is that the festivals have brought moments of relaxation and entertainment to the people in the area following a year of hard work and fatigue and also created an atmosphere enjoy spring, encourage young people in the commune to exercise, stay away from social evils; contribute to preserving and promoting unique local customs, traditions and cultural beauty”, Mr. Quang said.