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HEADERS The procession is a custom of Con Soi village - Giang Hen ward (in Phu Xuan commune) now in Vi Da ward, Hue city. Every three years of great ceremony, lasting from 2 to 3 days, the main day is the 24th of the sixth lunar month. In the normal year, make a ceremony (just picking) and the tree in the middle of the river will be smaller, there is no council score like the Great Ceremony. Legend has it that the 4th Thanh Thai name (Nham Thin 1892) in Giang Hen ward had Mrs. Tran Thi, "small boats" (small boats) out of Hell in the river area in front of Huong Can communal house (Huong Tra district), was pulled out by Huong Ly commune, bringing her "irises" to the shore to request to pay tax fines, on the grounds that "Henmen about the village and the Imperial Citadel returned to the temple". The people of Giang Hen ward often reported, made an application to the lawsuit, was shouted by Chau: "Thuong from the beginning of the head, Ha Chi Hai said" (meaning: from the upstream to the end of the sea, the ponds are taxed, the river is used). Duoc Thang Kien, Giang Hen Ward Ket Long Dinh on the boat, decorated the flag of the flag to pick up, Chau Coi commune needed to release her, bringing her "lightheaded" into the water, the people of Giang Hen ward to the communal house in the communal house for thanksgiving. The people of the ward said that the reason for the village was sued was thanks to the god of the blessing, so the villagers took this day to make a sacrifice every year. The festival process begins with a solemn decorative boat, a worshiping sentence between the boat at the tip of Con Hen (the fork of the Huong River). In the middle of the river plugged in Dai Phan tree, called the "magical council" by the elders. Another boat, each boat decorated with parasols, flower worship, drums, gongs, music wards, originating from the "magical council" of the center, giving away two directions of Thuong Nguyen and Ha Nguyen called the miraculous palace of the river. When coming to each location, choose a conditional place, display the fragrance of flowers, fruits, salt rice to celebrate the procession, full 3 weeks of alcohol and then also about the starting point. Then go to the shore to return to the Nguyen family church (the Church of the 12 family of the Phu Xuan commune) to celebrate the procession of the god to join the communal house. All attendees of the Festival are all men, including elders, middle -aged and young people. The procession of the river god consists of a number of people wearing black ao dai, red waist with a burden of worship at the Council. In the front, there were some people wearing black ao dai, red fabric belts, grabbing feces in two rows, walking and doing a boat rowing and a roofing voice, there was a drum trumpet, a collateral called a row. The last is the dignitaries in the ward with the villagers, dressed in traditional clothes to follow the procession to serve the god. Before the procession, he also had to visit the Nguyen family church to celebrate the procession. The deity of Giang Hen ward is Mr. Huynh Tuong, a former man from Dien Dai village, Phu Vang district, to Con Hen to establish a career by De Hen. King Gia Long ascended the throne, the dunes of Hen was named Giang Hen ward in Phu Xuan commune. The custom has thus bringing a beautiful meaning of the collective, the people living on the river in a famous river area in Thua Thien: Con Hen, which is specially produced with small and delicious mussel to make a unique and delicious mussel rice dish of Hue.