The cakes were brought to King Mai Hac De Temple on February 2.
Men and women chosen to carry the cakes dressed neatly in white shirts and long dresses. Each carried a tray containing four cakes on their heads.
A local woman, Le Thi Binh, said that she and other people in the district were all happy to prepare the cakes and offer them to their beloved king.
People queued in two lines in front of the temple to wait for their cakes to be brought to the king’s altar.
King Mai Hac De Temple was built in 2010 on an area of 7,000 square metres in Mai Lâm Village, Mai Phu Commune. The temple was recognised as a provincial historical-cultural relic in 2011.
According to vice chairman of Mai Phu Commune People's Committee, Pham Trong Hop, local people organised the death anniversary for the king every year on the 12th and 13 of the first lunar year.
"After the event was suspended for two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we're organising the anniversary on a larger scale this year," the official said. "The anniversary has attracted lots of local people and visitors."
The temple has been colourfully decorated with the national flags and flowers for the event.
King Mai Hac De, whose real name was Mai Thuc Loan, was born in Ha Tinh Province in 670. He led people to oppose the occupancy of China's Tang Dynasty in Vietnam then acceded in the early eighth century. Under his rule, Vietnamese people regained sovereignty and lived in peace for nearly 10 years (713-722) before he died in 723. Being grateful to King Mai Hac De, people established temples to worship him in the two central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh.
A bronze, 10.80-metre-high statue of King Mai Hac De is built at a square in Loc Ha District, Ha Tinh Province.
