Every year on the afternoon of the 4th and 5th lunar new year, Binh Dinh people and tourists all over the country are excited to travel to Dong Da Tet festival at Quang Trung Museum, Phu Phong town - Tay Son to commemorate illustrious feats of leaders of the Tay Son movement, especially the hero Quang Trung - Nguyen Hue and commemorating the victory of Ngoc Hoi - Dong Da, defeating 29,000 Qing invaders.

Dong Da - Tay Son - Binh Dinh Tet Festival is one of the biggest festivals in the country in the early spring days. The festival is held solemnly and magnificently from the 4th to the 5th day of the first lunar month. In addition to traditional ceremonies, the festival also organizes many folk cultural activities such as performing Tay Son martial arts, Tay Son battle drums, boat racing, folk games, tuong singing, etc., reenacting historical battles with costumes and battle elephants like in the old days when King Quang Trung went to battle ... attracting a large number of foreign guests, the people of the country and especially the people of the martial land to attend.

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The Dong Da ritual program takes place from the afternoon of the 4th of the Lunar New Year with many special traditional rituals held at Tay Son Palace. The ceremony is held solemnly, the whole area is large, with flags, scepters, gongs and drums ringing. The people attending the ceremony feel like their hearts are integrated into the sacred souls of rivers and mountains.

Although the program on the 5th day of the festival changes every year, the main items are the same every year, which is a speech reviewing the history of Tay Son with the great destruction of the Qing army, martial arts performances, Tay Son battle drums and sports. magic show. Tay Son martial arts repertoire was performed by famous martial arts masters, martial artists and artists of Binh Dinh, such as: Lao Mai Doc Tho, Ngoc Tran Quyen, Hung Ke Quyen; Martial arts exercises using weapons: Thunder dragon knife, Song phoenix sword, Tuyet Hoa two swords and Thunder wind depending on the shape of the sword, or whip lessons such as Roi Thai Son, Roi Hac Danh O Son ... were warmly applauded by the audience.

Tay Son martial arts music performance is a unique art of Binh Dinh province, the performer must have both the soul of an artist and a super martial artist and practice magical hands to act on the heart of the drum, the rim of the drum. and the drum body with both hands, wrists, elbows, and arms, in contact with a set of 12 different large and small drums called "Dual Hand Da De Decade", creating different majestic sounds strange, making viewers seem attracted and urged. The performance of the Dong Da battle was even more exciting and attractive, held on a large-scale terrain, elaborately staged, meticulously rehearsed, with thousands of people performing with flags, gongs, and drums, uniforms, strongholds... just like the real thing, there are five and four, five battle elephants participating.

The performance of Tay Son martial arts makes it easy for viewers to feel the sound of swords, the sound of weapons, the cheers of soldiers, the sound of gunfire, the roar of elephants, the neighing of horses mixed with the drums. Viewers feel like they are standing in the middle of the battle line, the space echoes the sacred souls of mountains and rivers, and returns to history, witnessing a fast and daring battle. The drum sounds like an urge, like an urge, viewers can be excited and ready to rush to the roof.

Today, going to the Dong Da Tet festival has become a pride and an indispensable spiritual need for the people of the land of martial arts in the early spring days.