Thai Vi Temple – a spiritual and impressive destination

Thai Vi Temple – a spiritual and impressive destination

Where is Thai Vi Temple?

Thai Vi Temple is a temple located in Van Lam village, Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh province. The temple worships the Tran kings who have made great contributions to Hoa Lu such as Tran Thai Tong, Tran Thanh Tong, Tran Nhan Tong, …

Coming here, visitors not only burn incense to pray but also have the opportunity to learn about many cultural heritages and value chemistry.

Cultural and historical uniqueness of Thai Vi Temple

Located in the middle of a charming and poetic countryside, Thai Vi Temple is not only a sacred ancient temple from thousands of years ago, but it is also an extremely precious historical relic, associated with the history of the Tran Dynasty on the land of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu.

The scenery of Ninh Hai land, Hoa Lu district, where the sacred Thai Vi temple is located is a lush green area, with overlapping mountains, along with fanciful caves that have captivated many people have been wearing customers for thousands of years.

Thai Vi Temple is located in the O Lam forest, belonging to the old Vu Lam canton, today in Van Lam village, Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district. The temple is located with its back against Cam Son mountain, facing the Ngo Dong river in a quiet and peaceful space.

The temple was built on the main ground of Vu Lam palace, a stronghold during the second resistance war against Nguyen Mong in 1258 of the Tran Dynasty. In the vast space of the mountains and forests, Thai Vi temple appears as a precious historical relic.

Featured with architectural works imbued with cultural identity here. Thai Vi Temple is also a cultural and historical relic as well as a tourist destination in the eco-cultural tourism route Tam Coc – Bich Dong. In the temple, all columns are made of tall monolithic green stones, carved very elaborately. The main temple consists of the nave of the altar, on the top hangs a yellow painting with four large Chinese characters “Long Duc Chinh Trung”. 

Next is the three pavilions with two rows of round stone columns carved with dragons… Through the middle of the hall, there are eight main pavilions with 8 carved stone columns: music, chess, poetry, drawing. At Thai Vi temple, there is also a small temple where King Tran Thai Tong set up and practiced in the last days of his life.

Every year, on the 14th day of the third lunar month, the Thai Vi festival jubilantly takes place to commemorate the merits of the Tran kings, attracting a lot of people and tourists.

What to do at Thai Vi temple?

Coming here, visitors can go sightseeing around the temple, although the pagoda is quite small, it contains many vestiges of the Tran Dynasty in artifacts such as bells, statues, and stele. For those who love to learn history or visit sacred places with glorious historical stories, Thai Vi Temple will be the best choice in the route to discover Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex.

In particular, the keeper of the temple is knowledgeable about the history of the Tran Dynasty and ethnic musical instruments, so visitors here can listen to him explain the history related to Thai Vi temple in particular and Vu Lam palace in general.

Cycling around the temple, it can be said that this is also one of the most interesting experiences that most foreign tourists share is cycling to admire the scenery around the temple. Such a peaceful place is where visitors can immerse themselves in the beautiful natural surroundings.

How to visit Thai Vi Temple?

Visitors departing from Hanoi move to Ninh Binh by limousine, then rent a car to move to Thai Vi Temple.

If guests have stayed at the hotel before, they will be picked up by the guide and then cycled to visit Thai Vi temple.

Opening hours: Daily opening
Entrance fee: Free

Thai Vi Temple Festival

This is the biggest festival of the year of Ninh Hai people to commemorate the merits of the Tran kings, especially King Tran Thai Tong, who had the merit of recruiting people to establish a hamlet in Ninh Hai commune.

On the morning of March 15 of the lunar calendar, which is the main day of the festival, the sacrifices are brought out, cleaned, and placed in the dragon yard along with other offerings: a thick cake as big as a tray, painted on the cake. A very beautiful phoenix bird. In addition to the offerings, there are also fruits, bananas, pig’s head, boiled chicken, sticky rice…

Especially the sticky rice must be white, this symbolizes purity and high purity.

The first ritual of the day is the procession. The palanquin procession at Thai Vi temple is not only one group but more than 30 groups of palanquin processions of communes in Hoa Lu district and in the province. Each group usually carries three palanquins, which are parallel palanquins for the courtiers, bowl tribute palanquins for the king and hammocks for the mother or princess. The palanquin is decorated with parasols with vibrant colors.

Behind the palanquins of the delegations are palanquins carrying incense and flowers. Then there was the ward of the bowl yin, and then the sacrificial ceremony led by the celebrant in the second row, all dressed in robes. The palanquin procession departs from communal houses or temples of the villages, gathers at Cac communal house, then all processions go into Thai Vi temple to sacrifice to the king.

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