Sình village Festival
Sình village Festival
Time: 10th day of 1st lunar month
Place: Sình village, Phú Mậu commune, Phú Vang district, Thừa Thiên- Huế province.
Sinh village, also known as Lai An village, is located in Phu Mau commune, Phu Vang district, about 8km northeast of central Hue city. The Sinh village is largely synonymous with is its wrestling competition called the Sinh Village Festival, Hue when different wrestling clubs called “Lo” in Vietnamese, comes here to compete for championship.
Every year after Tet holiday, the villagers of the Sinh village come to the temple devoted to the worship of the ancestor (founder) of wrestling art “chop trees to have wood, saw wood to make the scaffolds” at a place just at the left of the Lai An market. The wrestling festival day at Sinh village attract much more people and are much more fun than the 3 Tet days. Beside the youths of the village there are thousands of boys and girls coming here from the various districts, and from the Capital Hue. The wrestling ring platform is an earthen floor of more the one meter high; each side is about 4 “arms spreads” long built just in front of the communal house where the founder of this martial art is honoured.
Two persons directed the competition. One is a young referee standing on the platform, the second is an older prestigious person in the village with a black turban and a long robe as in the ancient times, he accompanies where phases of the competition with the sound of the drum before him and seats just in front of the verandah of the founder’s temple. The wrestlers before jumping on the platform must come before the old person to listen to instructions which are regulations of the competition. A competition lasts one day, the morning is for preliminary rounds, those who can win successively 3 matches can come to the final. A person must win at least in 8 matches to take the championship. Those who make bad tricks on their adversaries were rigorously protested by the people (and the managers of the competition). It is why the competition may last an entire day with rare cases of quarreling and disorderly fighting.
The wrestling competitions of Sinh village is a beautiful tradition of the spirit of respect for martial arts of the inhabitant of Hue in the past 6 centuries.
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