The communal house of Gieng Tanh village in Gieng Tanh village, Kim Phu commune, Tuyen Quang city, is a spiritual and religious place expressing the identity of the community living on Gieng Tanh land. In the year Gieng Tanh communal house takes place many festivals, the main festival is held on the 10th day of the first lunar month every year.

The communal house of Gieng Tanh village, famous for its sacredness. The communal house was built in the Year of the Dog (1706)   Legend has it that the poor commoner Tieu Hiep Phuong went to the Hung Temple to ask for help for the people through the tribulation. King Hung sent two saints, "The First King Ngoc Son, who inspired the great king" and "The Great King Nghiem Son was loyal to the great king" to the Yen Son area to protect the villagers of Gieng Tanh. Since then, this place has been doing well and has a good harvest. Grateful to the two saints, the people of Gieng Tanh erected a communal house to commemorate and took January 10 as the village's death anniversary. The communal house also worships Princess Thiem Hoa, who worships the gods supporting the village's farming, namely Nong, Tho land and Long Vuong, and worships Luong Thi Hai, who is said to have provided food for the insurgents to fight the enemy. The communal house was built on a flat land in Kim Phu field. The front faces north, with a stream of water flowing. Behind the communal house is leaning on Nghiem mountain, on the left is La mountain, on the right is the village of the Cao Lan people. The communal house has 3 compartments, wooden frame, tile roof. In the middle, there is a gold-painted incense burner, with many meticulously carved patterns, the highlight is the upper part of the altar carved with a pair of dragons worshiping the sun and moon, around the two dragons are gently undulating clouds. The harem has a brick altar about 2 meters high, around the altar there is a diaphragm, a couplets carved with jackfruit wood. The highest place to put the tablet of the two gods Thanh Hoang. Due to time, weather has affected the space and architecture of the communal house, so now the people of Gieng Tanh Cultural Village have decided to contribute efforts to rebuild the communal house and completed it in the month of the year well. Pig (2019).

*Tanh Well

Well Tanh is about 200 meters north of Gieng Tanh communal house. A special feature of Gieng Tanh is that the water level of the well is always higher than the water level of the surrounding fields, streams and ponds. The water of Gieng Tanh is available all year round, never dries up, the water is very clear, so it is called Gieng Tanh (in Cao Lan, "Tanh" means clean, pure, not foul-smelling). According to the villagers of Gieng Tanh village, the well was known in the year of Nham Tuat (1706). At that time, some clans of the Cao Lan ethnic group went to the North to find a new land to live. One day, the ancestors saw that this area was flat, the land was fertile, the trees were lush, and especially the water was clear, so they made a village and named the village. In the past, the whole village used the water source in Gieng Tanh for daily living. During the festival of the village communal house (January 10 every year), the Cao Lan people take well water to worship the communal house because they believe that taking the well water to make offerings will be very sacred.

Gieng Tanh Village Communal House Festival includes a ceremony and a festival, this is the biggest festival of the year of the Cao Lan ethnic group in Kim Phu commune, Yen Son district. The festival takes place for 1 day and 2 nights. The ceremony is conducted from the night of January 9 until the next half of the day, the remaining half of the day and night of the 10th is devoted to the festival. The ceremony is held in the communal house according to traditional rituals, at the beginning of the festival, there are 7 participants including: the celebrant, the celebrant, the celebrant, and 4 consecrators (the priest wears a red shirt, the rest are all red robes). even wearing blue). The part of worshiping in the communal house according to traditional rites, the content has spiritual meaning, praying for favorable weather, good crops, and development of all things.

The festival part of Gieng Tanh village communal house festival is started very early, right after the ceremony in the communal house has not ended, including folk games: toss dragon, cock fight, stick push, swing... In addition to games folklore, a cultural activity with distinctive characteristics of the Cao Lan people indispensable in the festival is singing Sinh ca. Singing Sinh Ca in the communal house festival of Geng Tanh village in Kim Phu commune is mainly for young men and women and is divided into several sets of songs. The first episodes are singing to get to know each other, then singing to assess each other's understanding, from which to confess love.

The Gieng Tanh communal house festival really contributes to building the cultural and spiritual life of the Kim Phu ethnic community. The Gieng Tanh communal house festival has really become a regional festival, not only meeting the festival needs of the Cao Lan people but also a cultural festival for many ethnic groups in Tuyen Quang province.