Festival in Hoa Binh - Vietnam

he Praying for good fortune Festival of the Thai in Mai Chau. Every family prepares worshipping meal to set table in common shrine follow the principles: this year the offering is chicken, next year the offering is pig. In the afternoon, each family kills two chickens to worship Kitchen God (set in house) and Earth genie (set at field).

Festivals in Hoa Binh - Vietnam

Cau Phuc Festival (Praying for good fortune Festival)
Time:The eighth lunar month.
Place:Mai Chau District, Hoa Binh Province.
Characteristics: The Praying for good fortune Festival of the Thai in Mai Chau. Every family prepares worshipping meal to set table in common shrine follow the principles: this year the offering is chicken, next year the offering is pig. In the afternoon, each family kills two chickens to worship Kitchen God (set in house) and Earth genie (set at field).     

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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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Ke Pagoda Festival
Time: The 16th day of the second lunar month. 
Place: Phu Vinh Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province. 
Objects of worship: The Stone (the remnants of the religion on all things efficacious that are metamorphosed by the Buddha) 
Characteristics: Games of con throwing, spin the top, bow-shooting contest.      

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Praying for rain Festival of the Muong
Time: The fourth lunar month. 
Place: Tech Lim Ground, My Hoa Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province. 
Characteristics: Praying-for-rain ceremony is held at the Tech Lim Ground, the chief of hamlet lays feast tray. Don and Chuong hamlets arrange their troops to perform mock battle and pray the King Water for rain.      

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Praying for rain Festival of the Thai
Time: The fourth lunar month. 
Place: Mai Chau District, Hoa Binh Province. 
Characteristics: Praying for rain Festival of the Thai in Mai Chau opens at nights that have the moon's red halo in the third and the fourth lunar months. Everyone sings to pray for rain in every house of the hamlet, then carrying torch procession around the hamlet.      

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Rice leaves washing Festival
Time: The seventh and the eighth lunar months.
Place: Muong Bi Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province.
Characteristics: Rice leaves washing Festival of the Muong takes place at the seventh, the eighth lunar months which is the time rice trees give seeds. The festival recalls people who reclaimed wasteland and set up Muong Hamlet. The offering tray of feast is put in the fields of families, sorcerers pray for crops with fewer insects

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Vua Ba Temple Festival
Time: 8th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Lac Thinh Commune, Yen Thuy District, Hoa Binh Province.
Objects of worship: Au Co, who has the merit of teaching people to sing and shoot.
Characteristics: Offer birds meat, meat of wild beast. Popular opera performance, and mask dance.     

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