Ky Yen Festival Time: The 26th day of the sixth lunar month. Place: Nguyen Huu Canh Temple, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province. Characteristics: Boat racing, vying for offerings to get fortunes. Ky Yen Festival at Nguyen Tri Phuong Temple Time: From the 16th to the 17th day of the tenth lunar month. Place: Nguyen [...]

Cau Dao Festival of the Cham Time: The 18th day of the fifth lunar month or when the drought menaced. Place: Poklong Garai and Po Rome Towers, Ninh Thuan Province. Objects of worship: Agriculture Genie. Characteristics: The sorcerer and local people go to tower to worship the Agriculture Genie praying for rain and pray gods [...]

Dinh Thay Temple Festival Time: From the 14th to the 16th day of the ninth lunar month. Place: Dinh Thay Temple, Tan Hai Commune, Ham Tan District, Binh Thuan Province. Objects of worship: Thay and Thim, wife and husband who had merit of treating disease for poor people. Characteristics: Vegetarian meal worshipping in the everning [...]

Leaving the tomb festival Time: Not fixed, often lasting from 3 to 7 days in spring time Place: The cemetery Objects of worship:The deceased people Characteristics:Rituals of sacrifice offerings, eating, playing of the whole community beside the tomb house. Unlike other ethnic minorities in Vietnam, some groups in the Central Highlands, including E de, Gia Rai, [...]

Ca Ong Worshipping Festival (Cau Ngu Festival) Time: The 15th day of the twelfth lunar month. Place: Some fishing villages in Khanh Hoa Province. Objects of worship: Ca Ong. Characteristics: Incense offering ceremony, procession of torch, horn playing by a team of women, drum beating by a team of men, the first incense burning by [...]

Do Gian Festival 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 [...]

An Truyen Festival Time: 16th day of the seventh lunar month. Place: Phu Vang District, Thua Thien-Hue Province. Objects of worship: God of opening rice paddies Ho Quang Lanh and families Nguyen, Huynh, Doan. Characteristics: Procession of god, chess playing, cock fighting. Chi Long Village Festival Time: 12th to the 13th day of the sixth [...]

Bao Ninh Village Festival Time: From the 14th day to the 16th day of the fourth lunar month. Place: Bao Ninh Commune, Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Province. Objects of worship: Nhan than (father and son of fisherman) and Ca Ong (whale). Characteristics: Procession of Ong’s bone, “Ho khoan, cheo can” performance, bong (flower) dance. [...]

Ca Ong (Whale) Festival The festival takes place every year, for two days, in the middle of the third lunar month. It is celebrated as an act of respect for the spirits, and it is also linked to the prosperity of the fishing villages. Quan Am Festival Time:  From the 18th to the 20th day [...]

Agriculture Genie procession Festival Time: The 1st day of the third lunar month. Place: Hoi An City, Quang Nam Province. Objects of worship: Agriculture Genie. Characteristics: The festival is mainly for grazing buffalo children, a procession and praying the Agriculture Genie for good weather and a bumper crop. Duy Trinh Silk Making Village Location: Duy [...]