Festival · 2026-10-26

Bac Le’s festival opens tomorrow, and only Thursday night has a clock

Nhân Dân says Tân Thành commune will hold the Bắc Lệ communal temple festival on 27–29 October. Tomorrow is the opening rite, with no hour printed. The art program is expected at 20:00 on the 28th. No ticket is in the notice.

27–29 October 2026. Opening rite on 27 October. The hour tomorrow, and a fee: Check on arrival. Art program expected at 20:00 on 28 October.

Nhân Dân, published at 15:54 on 20 October 2026, says the People’s Committee of Tân Thành commune will hold the Bắc Lệ communal temple festival for three days, 27 through 29 October 2026, the 18th through the 20th of the ninth lunar month in the year Bính Ngọ. The ground is the yard of the relic and some supporting areas around it, in Bắc Lệ hamlet, Tân Thành commune, Lạng Sơn. Tomorrow, 27 October, is the temple-opening rite, done in the traditional way. The paper prints no start time for that day. Check on arrival.

The only clock in the plan is for Thursday night. On 28 October the morning rite is the offering that invites Chầu Bé’s feast, and the afternoon is hầu Thánh to open the festival and the celebration of that feast. Neither half is given an hour. The art program that welcomes the festival is expected at 20:00, directed by Hoàng Đạt, with the epic “Bắc Lệ đền thiêng” performed by the National Traditional Art Theatre, plus songs and dances from village clubs in the commune. 29 October is the main day: the principal offering in the morning, and belief practice and service for visitors in the afternoon. No hour is printed for either half, and no ticket is printed for any of the three days. Check on arrival.

The paper gives the temple the literary name Bắc Lệ Linh Từ and says it is believed to worship Mẫu Thượng Ngàn, a spirit it ties to the care of the mountains and forests. It says the state recognized the relic as a historical and cultural monument in 1992, and that in September 2025 it became Lạng Sơn’s first four-star OCOP product in tourism. It also says the yearly festival, held in the ninth lunar month, draws tens of thousands of visits. That line is the paper’s description of the annual gathering. The photograph is the inner hall as Khangoii filed it on Wikimedia Commons on 6 June 2024. The file’s caption calls the frame the hall before a renovation: a Buddha statue at the back, the Tam tòa Thánh Mẫu in the middle, and, at the front, the statue it names as Mẫu Thượng Ngàn, also called Chúa Diệu Tín or Chúa Sơn Trang in that caption.