📍 Tiên Công shrine, Quảng Ninh 📅 Days 5–7 of lunar month 1 🏛 Traditional festival 🕰 2027: no official dates yet; by custom it falls on 10 February 2027 to 12 February 2027 📚 4 sources Quick answer Who are the tien cong worshipped at Tiên Công shrine? According to the stele inscriptions and family genealogies cited by Quảng Ninh newspaper, from about 1434 to 1500, 17 tien cong who were natives of Kim Hoa ward in Thăng Long citadel, together with their families, travelled down to the mouth of the Bạch Đằng river, built dykes and reclaimed land from the sea to establish the villages of Phong Cốc, Cẩm La and Yên Đông. The list includes Vũ Song, Vũ Hồng Tiệm, Bùi Huy Ngoạn, Ngô Bách Đoan, Nguyễn Phúc Cốc, Nguyễn Phúc Thắng, Nguyễn Phúc Vinh, Lê Khép, Lê Mở, Vũ Tam Tỉnh, Vũ Giai, Nguyễn Nghệ, Nguyễn Thực, Bùi Bách Niên, Phạm Việt, Dương Quang Tín and Dương Quang Tấn. Two figures, Hoàng Nông and Hoàng Nênh, natives of Trà Lý in Nam Định, are recorded as the first settlers who founded Trung Bản village.
From the article “Tiên Công Festival on Hà Nam Island, Quảng Ninh: The Rite of Carrying the Elderly, the Longevity Procession on the 7th Day of the First Lunar Month, and Who the Tiên Công Are”
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