Festivals
in November 2005
Hoa Binh
Harvest Festival
Time:
The tenth lunar
month.
Place:
Muong Bi Commune,
Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province.
Characteristics:
Harvest Festival
is held after harvesting bumper crop in the
10th lunar month. During the Harvest Festival,
the Muong also worship parents, ancestors.
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Lai
Chau
Harvest Festival
of the La Hu in Lai Chau
Time:
The tenth and the
eleventh lunar months.
Place:Lai
Chau Province.
Characteristics:
Xoe dancing and
avoiding going to the forest for picking up
fire wood, cutting trees, grass in 3 days to
pray for verdant vegetation around year.
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Hung
Yen
Tho
Hoang Hamlet Festival
Time:The
1st day of the tenth lunar month.
Place:
Tho Hoang Hamlet,
An Thi Town, An Thi District, Hung Yen Province.
Objects
of worship:
Tutelary god of
hamlet Bui Dao Vuong Phuc Than who had merit
of assisting Trieu Quang Phuc in fighting Luong
troops.
Characteristics:
Offerings are incense
and flower, vegetarian meal, banh giay; singing
and fun games.
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Ha
Tay
Lai Tao Village
Festival
Time:
The 12th day of
the tenth lunar month.
Place:
Bot Xuyen Commune,
My Duc District, Ha Tay Province.
Objects
of worship:
Village's tutelary
gods - 3 brothers of Cao family, generals of
Hai Ba Trung.
Characteristics:
The feast which
worship to tutelary god includes uncooked pork
and glutinous rice.
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Nhi
Khe Village Festival
Time:
The 25th day of
the tenth lunar month.
Place:
Nhi Khe Commune,
Thuong Tin District, Ha Tay Province.
Objects
of worship:
Mr. Doan Van Tai,
the ancestor of wood carving in the 16th century.
Characteristics:
Worshipping the
ancestor, sacrifice-offering ceremony, offering
to the ancestor, chess playing, and cheo singing.
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Thanh
Hoa
Moc Cuu and Thuc
Thoc Villages Festival
Time:
The 9th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place:
Moc Cuu and Thuc Thoc Villages, Tho Xuan District,
Thanh Hoa Province.
Objects
of worship:
Village's tutelary
god - Rain genie.
Characteristics:
Offerings are chay
and giay cakes, fruits. Days after, offerings
are steamed glutinous rice, pig, rice wine that
are processed to Ngoc Son region for worshipping
then the procession returns to sacrifice at
temples of Moc Cuu and Thuc Thoc Villages.
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Ha
Noi
Tu Lien Festival
Time:
12th day of the
tenth lunar month.
Place:
Tu Lien Ward, Tay
Ho District, Hanoi.
Objects
of worship:
Bao
Trung, Minh Khiet, Uy Hanh and Mai Hoa.
Characteristics:
Procession of palanquin, dragon dance.
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Dong
Nai
Ky Yen Festival
at Nguyen Tri Phuong Temple
Time:
From the 16th to
the 17th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Nguyen Tri Phuong Temple, Buu Hoa Ward,
Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province.
Place:
Nguyen Tri Phuong
Temple, Buu Hoa Ward, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai
Province.
Characteristics:Tien
hien, Hau hien worshipping, procession of god,
offering to worship god, tong on ceremony, boi
singing, dancing.
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An
Giang
Nguyen Trung Truc
Temple Festival
Time:
From the 18th to
the 19th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place:
Nguyen Trung Truc
Temple, Long Kien Commune, Cho Moi District,
An Giang Province.
Objects
of worship:
Nguyen
Trung Truc, the leader of an insurrection who
rose up against the French in the South.
Characteristics:
Incense-offering
ceremony, recalling sacrifices-offering ceremony,
re-performance of the battle of destroying a
French warships on the Nhat Tao River in the
19th century. The festival involves boat rowing,
Chinese chess and other fun games.
