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April 2021
Phu Giay Festival
Phu Giay Festival, also called Phu Day is held every year from the 3rd to the 8th day of the third lunar month, but the main day of the festival occurs on the 3rd. On the 6th day, people organize a procession from Tien Huong Temple to Goi Pagoda and a festival in which people stand in the shape of Chinese Characters on the 7th day. Those are the most typical activities of the festival. In 2019 Phu Giay festival…
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Khau Vai Love Market Festival
Khau Vai Love Market Festival is held on 27th day of the 3rd lunar month in Khau Vai commune, Meo Vac district, the northernmost province of Ha Giang. The festival aims to preserve the original cultural values of the local ethnic groups in the locality while attracting visitors and stimulating socio-economic development in the northernmost area of Vietnam. On the day of festival, local ethnic women and men put on their best traditional costumes to go to the market, where…
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Sen Village Festival
Sen Village Festival is held annually on the occasion of the birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (19 May) in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province. The festival has the participation of public art troupes from the provinces and cities nationwide and numerous local people and visitors. Many activities are organized in the framework of the festival, such as an incense offering ceremony at President Ho Chi Minh’s statue in Vinh City and the parade to Kim Lien, Nam Dan…
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Da Nang Fireworks Festival
Da Nang Fireworks Festival is held organized annually around May, June in the bank of Han River, Da Nang City. The highlight of the festival is the fireworks competition with the participants of many international teams and the host team of Da Nang City. The viewers will be attracted by magnificent and colorful fireworks performances with compatible light effects and background music. There are also many auxiliary activities in the framework of the festival as light festival, parachuting contest, cuisine…
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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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