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August 2020
Quan Lan Festival
Quan Lan festival takes place on the 18th day of the sixth lunar month in Dinh Wharf and Quan Lan Communal House, Quan Lan island, Quang Ninh Province. Quan Lan festival is organized to commemorate the victory against the Mongol invaders in 1288, as well as the feats of Tran Khanh Du, a famous Tran General. They also pray for good “harvest” from the sea. The main festival is held on the 18th day of the sixth lunar month. But…
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Dao Xa Village Festival
Dao Xa village festival is held on the 9th day of the 7th lunar month, in Dao Xa, Thanh Thuy, Phu Tho, northern Vietnam. The Dao Xa festival is organized to honor Hung Hai Cong and three Royal Highest mandarins who had merit of helping people control floods, Princess Que Hoa. Dao Xa village is located in the West of Da river. The legend is that, this is the area that the struggle between Son Tinh and Thuy Tinh took place.…
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Quang Binh Boat Racing Festival
Quang Binh Boat Racing Festival takes place on the 2nd September on Kien Giang River, Le Thuy District, Quang Binh province in the north central region of Vietnam. It is an annual event held to promote national unity and sportsmanship in the hometown of General Vo Nguyen Giap. The boat race was originally a part of a traditional festival praying for good weather and abundant crops. Young people participated in the sports as a way to prepare themselves in a…
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Long Chu Festival
Long Chu Festival takes place on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month in coastal villages of Hoi An City, Quang Nam Province. This festival of the boatmen living around Hoi An is believed to hold back epidemics and diseases in the transition of a season. Long Chu is a royal boat, a symbol of divinity able to scare away epidemics and diseases. Therefore, the festival includes a procession to carry a royal bamboo-structured boat and fabric-paper elephant from…
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Lady Thu Bon Festival
The Lady Thu Bon Festival takes place from the 10th to the 12th day of the second lunar month in Duy Tan Commune, Duy Xuyen District, Quang Nam Province. It is a traditional festival of the ancient Cham Pa people that was inherited and is still kept nowadays. Lady Thu Bon, also known as Lady Bo Bo, is the woman who had a great contribution to agriculture and fishery in alluvial land. One legend has it that a man came…
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Tran Temple Festival
Tran temple festival is one of major traditional festivals in Nam Dinh. The festival was organized on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month in Loc Vuong, Nam Dinh, Vietnam. The structure of this place has three main buildings, comprised of the Thien Truong Temple (Up Temple), Trung Hoa Temple (Center Temple), and Co Trach Temple (Down Temple). Thien Truong Temple was established from the base of Trung Quang Palace in which the former King lived and worked. The…
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Lam Kinh Festival
Lam Kinh Festival takes place on the 22nd day of the eight lunar month in King Le temple, Lam Kinh, Tho Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province. Lam Kinh is the place of mausoleums and tombs of the Le Kings. At the Muc Son Quay, in front of the tomb area in the present-day Xuan Lam Commune, there is a small temple dedicated to King Le Thai To (or Le Loi). In the past, every three years, on the King’s death…
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Da Lat Flower Festival
Da Lat Flower Festival is open from December 20th to 24th in Da Lat City and Bao Loc, Lam Dong province, Vietnam Central Highlands. The festival aims to promote and honor the value of Da Lat flowers and floriculture. Coming to the festival, visitors will admire the themed flower and ornamental plant spaces in tourist sites, flower production facilities; participate in the parade of dozens of flower carriages through streets; or enjoy colorful art programs praising the beauty of Da…
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Kate Festival
Kate Festival is held in Ninh Thuan province from the 30th day of the 6th month to 2nd day of the 7th month according to Cham calendar (around at the end of September and the beginning of October according to solar calendar). This is the most unique festival of the Cham people. Kate Festival associates with ancient towers where values of Cham culture are stored and other cultural aspects such as offerings, costumes, music instruments and hymns praising kings who…
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Ba Vang Pagoda Festival
Ba Vang Pagoda is located in Uong Bi City, Quang Ninh Province, about 120km from Hanoi city’s center. Also known as Bao Quang Pagoda, it preserves unique values of Vietnamese Buddhist Sec – Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen. Ba Vang Pagoda is the only place in Quang Ninh Province to organize Chrysanthemum Festival on the 9th day of the ninth lunar month to honor the chrysanthemum – the symbol of Buddhist culture associated with Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen. The…
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