The Ky Yen Festival lasts five days (from the 10th day to the 14th day of the second lunar month) at the Binh Dong communal house, which is located on the banks of Ba Tang canal and is one of the two communal houses which receive the largest number of visitors and worshippers in Ho [...]
Tourists on their ways to the South or to the North, arriving at the area of Tuy An district, Phu Yen province standing on the top of Quan Cau pass or those travelling by trains through the country can enjoy the beauty of a National Level Vestige of Landscape with the name of Black Dragon [...]
Every year, from the 15th to 20th days of the eighth lunar month, tens of thousands of people throughout the country flock to attend the Kiep Bac Temple Festival. The temple is situated in Hung Dao Commune, Chi Linh District, Hai Duong Province. It is dedicated to Trân Quôc Tuân, the eminent marshal of the [...]
One cannot visit Vietnam’s Tay Ninh without going to Nui Ba, a beautiful high mountain located in the middle of the MeKong Delta, 11km from Tay Ninh. Nui Ba Mountain is often called Lady Den Mountain after the devoted daughter of a Vietnamese guard officer. She left her father’s house and went to the mountain [...]
Situated in Quyen Son hamlet, Thi Son commune, Kim Bang district, Ha Nam province, Truc Temple worshipped General Ly Thuong Kiet. Quyen Son festival is organized from the 1st day of the lunar first month to the 1st of the lunar second month. As the festival is hold in the leisure time after harvests, it [...]
Danh Phet is played by using sticks but Cuop Cau is played by hands. Dieu Luong commune, Cam Khe district sacrifices the genie on the 4th of lunar January. People take the genies tablet to the outside and put it in front of alter. They dig 3 holes, then put the wooden ball into the [...]
Swinging is a kind of game for boys and girls and it is also a healthy game well-known in festivals in the new years days. The game is organized under two forms: flight swinging and water wheel swinging. The first is popularly played by the Kinh people across the country while the latter is popular [...]
Local food and bonsai will be showcased at the Hue Handicrafts Festival in April as the former royal capital central city strives to consolidate its status as Viet Nam’s cultural and festival city. Traditional art troupes from around the country will perform various cultural and community programmes at the Vietnamese Cuisine in Hue Style. The emphasis at [...]
A bursting spring atmosphere will be bought to downtown Hanoi by festival gathering typical products such as bonsai trees from handicraft villages on the outskirts of the city between January 27 and February 1. The festival, which will be held on Tran Nhan Tong Streetand nearby areas in Thong Nhat Park, will feature not only bonsai trees, [...]
Time: The 15th day of the seventh lunar month. Place: An Thai Village, An Nhon District, Binh Dinh Province. Objects of worship: Ba (a goddess of the sea). Characteristics: Praying for good weather, happiness and wealth for villagers; sacrifice-offering ceremony, singing, souls-of-the-dead worshiping and do gian (an old custom of the local people in which the offering is roast pork. When the [...]
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