The 2024 Dinh Ca Traditional Festival will be held for 3 days, from December 5-7, 2024, with solemn and sacred rituals such as: Procession of the Village's Thanh Hoang; organization of incense offering, sacrifices... In addition, there will be cultural and artistic activities; games such as: Chess exchange, clay cannons and many other folk games.
From early morning, the atmosphere of festival preparation was bustling at the cultural houses of 11 villages in Tan Huong commune. Every village eagerly prepared the offering trays according to custom, showing their sincerity to bring offerings on the sacred day at Dinh Ca.
In addition to fruits and local products, each village offers a fat pig, arranged horizontally in the middle of the communal house yard. This is also the ingredient for the whole commune to prepare a feast in the afternoon and invite a representative from each family to the communal house to eat, deepening the bond of village and neighborhood.
The festival is bustling and jubilant for 3 days and 3 nights. Coming to Dinh Ca in a sacred space, with a respectful and solemn mind. Dinh Ca Festival attracts the attention of many local children.
Coming to the place of worship of the village's tutelary god, people and tourists cherish many sincere and simple wishes: Praying for national peace and prosperity; for people's health and prosperity; for a peaceful life; to guide people towards faith, towards Truth - Goodness - Beauty. That is the humanistic value of the festival that everyone here believes in.
Dinh Ca, Tan Huong commune is a large and beautiful communal house, where 7 Thanh Hoang are worshiped, including 2 angels Thien Hoa Linh Thong Dai Vuong, Thien Quan Hanh De Dai Vuong; 01 earth god Linh Huu Dai Vuong; 4 human gods Quy Minh Dai Vuong, Pham Mai Trac Vi, Phan Mai Chinh Thien, Phan Mai Khai Quoc.
According to local historical records, during the years of resistance against French colonialism, Ca communal house was the gathering and training place of the Bai Say insurgents led by Nguyen Thien Thuat.
During the years of resistance against the US, Ca communal house was the place where the transfer of soldiers to serve the southern battlefield took place, and was the place where the popular education movement was organized from 1957-1958.
In January 2016, Dinh Ca relic in Ninh Giang district was ranked as a provincial-level historical and cultural relic of Hai Duong.
