Every year, every Ngoc Tien village, Xuan Hong (Xuan Truong) village, commemorates the merit of Thanh Hoang village, Hoang Van Quang, who has helped the villagers fight the enemy. In addition to the main part of the village, the village also has a tradition of cooking rice, as a vegetarian meal, before offering ancestral spirits, and then reviewing the hardships of the holy hordes and their father in the early days. .
Ngoc Tien village, Xuan Hong commune (Xuan Truong) was formerly a coastal accretion area of ​​Son Nam. In the post-Le dynasty, the court sent a military commander, Hoang Van Quang, to recruit soldiers, helping Ngoc Tien villagers flatten the enemy, stabilizing their lives. Thanks to the "strategy," the people here enjoy a peaceful life enough. In 1743, King Le Canh Hung gave him the title of Confucius of the Holy Monarch of Quang Tri. His gratitude, the villagers Ngoc Tien worshiped him as the royal village, set up the temple and the 10th day of the 10th day of the month. On this day, the villagers set aside all the farm work, focusing on the sanctuary. Descendants living away from home are arranging work on the village, with the village. Gongs, drums, flags, sky, the village community the most for the holiday. After the main part of the feast, the meeting took place with the focus of continuing to blow the rice, making vegetarian sacrifices sacred to the meaning of the activities of the soldiers under the Holy Apostles, The logistics, logistics and "muscle room" for the lack of hunger. Therefore, continue to blow rice in the village festival Ngoc Tien takes place under a closed process from the water, creating fire, to blowing rice cake. And this is also the unique attraction that makes the characteristics of the village of Ngoc Tien compared with other rural areas.
Before the day, all the armor was sent to the temple carrying equipment is a set of equipment, pots, cigarettes, lanterns, plates, dishes ... from the ancient time to clean up, repair for clean, pure. The ground floor in front of the temple is leveled, the lan lan lanes clean the weather, prepare for the day of the festival. Participants in the village have 6 armor, divided by unit neighborhood. Each armor must have 14 men, 18 years old or older, good morals, strong, agile, full family, no funeral. In the past, beans, rice blown rice, spinach, baking must be planted separately on the field of cultivation. The cultivation, harvesting, preservation of rice, beans are handled by the old farmer. The water, fire to cook rice is also made by men. Women are not allowed to participate in any part of the official or official function.
To start the cooking and vegetarian diet, the armor has to undergo both the sea and enemy combat. Only when there is water and there is fire, blowing rice to start. In the marine competition, each armor sent out two people, holding a small twist, simultaneously run to the landing of Chicken, wading out in the middle of the Ninh river for full of water brought back to the pot bottom of the map. During the process of running water, the thumb of the procession must seal the mouth to keep the water out. Who bring the water on the fastest, do not splash water along the road is the winner. The contests are considered to be intense, attracting attention and creating nervousness not only for the contestants but also for the participants. As a result of this contest will continue to participate in the next round. Moreover, according to the concept of the East, the creation of fire on the first day of spring is a good omen, bringing many good luck. Therefore, quick action, decisive, fiery fire and accurate flag burning is the responsibility of each contestant for the village and village. Each armor comes with an armored set consisting of a fixed bar made of bamboo, about 4 cm in diameter, separated in half to create a crevice for the humus to fall down during the drag. fire. Another bamboo bar is thin, called the bar (or knife bar) made of old bamboo trees, used to rub on the bar. The secret to be sure in this contest is that the fire equipment must be made from dusty bamboo, again to keep the kitchen for three months to use. On the 12th of the 6 armor, horizontal, all holding the breath, using a force of scrubbing the two bars together to create a smooth layer of humus. Sawdust lumps, encountered large friction to create fire. But now the fire is just a charcoal spot, the fire pullers have to clever fire to sharpen the straw smashed into a flame into the fire. At this time, the whole temple shrieked loudly cheering the villagers and visitors to attend. The difficulty is so but the rules for this contest only manipulated within 20-25 seconds. But by the efforts of the self, the enthusiasm of the neighbors, there were five boys in Ngoc Tien village only 12 seconds to create fire. A fire-fighter raised his own flame, burned the flag to signal that his part was finished and the villagers