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Festivals in November
Provinces:
An Giang,
Dong Nai,
Ha Tay,
Phu Tho,
Quang Binh,
Soc Trang,
Thanh Hoa
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Vietnam lunar calendar
Traditional festivals in
Phu Tho province:
Ha Thach Festival
Time: 10th day of the tenth lunar month.
Location: Ha Thach Commune, Phu Tho Town, Phu Tho Province.
Objects of worship: Hung Kings, Saint Tan Vien, Chu Dong
Tu, Hai Ba Trung, and Water genie.
Activities: Three Thuong, Ha, Trung Hamlets carry
palanquin procession to Ca Communal House then make
grand sacrifices-offering ceremony, rong ran dance (one
by one follows the leader), ha dien ceremony (worship
the Agriculture genie before cultivating), trai racing.
Traditional
festivals in Ha Tay province:
Lai Tao Village Festival
Time: The 12th day of the tenth lunar month.
Location: 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.
Activities: The feast which worship to tutelary god
includes uncooked pork and glutinous rice.
Nhi Khe Village Festival
Time: The 25th day of the tenth lunar month.
Location: 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.
Activities: Worshipping the ancestor,
sacrifice-offering ceremony, offering to the ancestor,
chess playing, and cheo singing.
Traditional festivals in
Thanh Hoa province:
Moc Cuu and Thuc Thoc Villages Festival
Time: The 9th day of the tenth lunar month.
Location: Moc Cuu and Thuc Thoc Villages, Tho Xuan
District, Thanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god - Rain genie.
Activities: 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.
Traditional festivals in
Quang Binh province:
The worshipping ceremony of the beginning crop of
cultivating rice seedlings in Le Son Village
Time: 1st day of the eleventh lunar month.
Location: Le Son Village, Tuyen Hoa District, Quang Binh
Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god.
Activities: Worshipping to tutelary god (10 trays
of steamed glutinous rice, 10 cocks), after that a
couple which is good at work and has son and daughter is
chosen to cultivate rice seedlings in the field which is
in front of the communal house.
Traditional festivals in
Dong Nai province:
Ky Yen Festival at Nguyen Tri Phuong Temple
Time: From the 16th to the 17th day of the tenth lunar
month.
Location: Nguyen Tri Phuong Temple, Buu Hoa Ward, Bien Hoa
City, Dong Nai Province.
Activities: Tien hien, Hau hien worshipping,
procession of god, offering to worship god, tong on
ceremony, boi singing, dancing.
Traditional festivals in
An Giang province:
Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival
Time: From the 18th to the 19th day of the tenth lunar
month.
Location: 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.
Activities: 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.
Traditional festivals in
Soc Trang province:
Ooc-om-bok Festival
Time: In the evening of the 14th day and the 15th day of
the tenth lunar month.
Location: In the yards of the pagodas or of the residents'
houses, ngo boat race in the Maspero River (Soc Trang
Town).
Objects of worship: Moon deity.
Activities: Moon worshipping ceremony, floating
lights on the water, ngo boat race.
Participators: The Khmer people in the South, the Hoa
and the Viet people
Ooc-Om-Bok Festival is a religious service that worships
the moon deity of the Khmer minority group and prays for
good luck, happiness, good weather and bumper crops. The
festival is usually held when the dry season begins and
rice are ripening on the fields.
The Moon-worshipping ceremony takes Location on the evening
of 14th of tenth lunar month before the moon goes to the
top. The ceremony is held in the yards of the pagoda or
of residents’ houses. People erect bamboo poles with a
crossbar on which they decorate with flowers and leaves.
Below is a table of offerings that include green rice
flakes, potatoes, bananas, coconuts, grapefruits,
oranges and cakes. People sit on the ground with crossed
legs, clasping their hands before the altar and look up
the Moon. An old master of ceremonies says his prayers,
asks the moon deity to receive the offerings and bless
people with the best.
After the ceremony, the elders ask the children of the
house sit flatly on the ground with crossed legs before
the altar. The elders then take a handful of green rice,
feed each child and ask them what they wish while
clapping their backs. If the children answer the
question clearly and politely, all the best will come to
them that year. After that, people enjoy the offerings
together, and children play games or dance and sing in
the moonlight. Anyone who visits the Khmer’s houses on
this occasion will be tasted com dep (a kind of young
sticky rice). At the pagodas of Khmer people, locals
hold paper-lantern releasing into the sky and putting on
the rivers. The custom of releasing flying lights and
floating lights is believed to sweep away the darkness,
impure and sadness from the village. Many traditional
activities of the Khmer are organised on the evening of
14th.
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Source: Vietnam Nation Administration of Tourism |
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