Not long after the creation of the earth and the sky, a fairy, Au Co and a dragon, Lac Long Quan met and fell in love. Soon after, Au Co bore 100 eggs, from which 100 children were born. Au Co and Lac Long Quan stayed together for some time with their children, but after a while, the dragon needed to get back to the sea and the fairy to the mountains, so they took 50 children each. Au Co taught her children the skills of agriculture and breeding animals, while Lac Long Quan taught his children to fish.
As the legend goes, these children are the ancestors of all Vietnamese people. One of these children became King Hung Vuong, the first King. The day of his death is not attached to a date in the solar/western calender, it has been passed down for thousands of years in the lunar calender (am lich). And thus the 10th day of the third month of the lunar calender is a very important day for Vietnamese people.
The flag that you can see in the poster and outside the temple is a funerary flag, always hung outside a house or at the end of an alley to signal that a funeral is taking place.
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