Festivals in Vinh Phuc - Vietnam

Objects of worship: La Cong Lo - the General who had merit of fighting Trieu Van Vuong troops. Characteristics: Sacrifice - offering ceremony, buffalo fighting.

Vinh Phuc

Bach Luu Festival
Time: The 28th day of the twelfth lunar month. 
Place: Bach Luu Commune, Song Lo District, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: La Cong Lo - the General who had merit of fighting Trieu Van Vuong troops. 
Characteristics: Sacrifice - offering ceremony, buffalo fighting.

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Bo Sao Village Festival
Time: From the 15th to the 16th day of the fifth lunar month. 
Place: Bo Sao Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: Dong Hai Dai Vuong. 
Characteristics: Game of farming performance: villagers play in role of ploughman, raking people, rice seeds sowing people...

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Cuu Ap Village Festival
Time: The 10th day of the fifth lunar month. 
Place: Lien Chau Commune, Yen Lac District, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: Tam Giang Dai Vuong Tho Lenh. 
Characteristics: Custom of vying for silk-worms while racing boat: the racing boats start from Chai Communal House to Xuan Vien Village in the other bank of the river then vying for silk-worms for good luck. 

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Duc Bac Festival
Time: The 1st day of the second lunar month and?from the 11th day to the 12th day of the sixth lunar month. 
Place: Duc Bac Commune, Song Lo District, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: Thanh Ong, Princess Bat Nan (General of Hai Ba Trung) and the ancestor of xoan singing. 
Characteristics: Cau dinh ceremony (pray for giving birth a son), racing boats to Phuong Lau (the other bank of the river) then striking for the basket of rice (or sheaf of rice seeds) and return, xoan singing (folk song of Vinh Phuc - Phu Tho Provinces).  

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Mau Lan Festival
Time: The 12th day of the twelfth lunar month. 
Place: Khai Quang Commune, Vinh Yen Town, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: The village's tutelary god. 
Characteristics: Dance of offering to god, the rite of battle sacrifice: two people cut off pig's head, take pig's head to dance offering god (at night), mo dance (thing symbolizing male and female genitals). 

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Rung Festival
Time: 6th day of the first lunar month to the 10th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Van Trung Village, Thuong Trung Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province.
Characteristics: Spring market; sell and buy things for lucky; boat racing; sticks fighting; rice cooking contest; trach catching in a big jar.
An un-married couple with their hands on each other's shoulder while other hands put into the big jar to try to catch the trach (girgs) inside.

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Tho Tang Village Spring Festival
Time: 14th to the 23rd day of the first lunar month (Spring Festival) and the 18th day of the twelfth lunar month (ceremony of giving a feast to long-lived people - 55 years old).
Place: Tho Tang Communal House, Tho Tang Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province.
Objects of worship: Worship the God of Earth (Nuoi Na), Lau Ho Hau (who had merit of fighting Yuan-Mongolian aggressors), Phung Thi Dung tien nuong.
Characteristics: A procession, wrestle, Chinese chess.    

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Thuong Lap Festival
Time: 10th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Tan Tien Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province.
Objects of worship: General Cao Nguyen (under Hai Ba Trung movement).
Characteristics: Perform the game of phet pushing.    

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Tich Son Temple Festival
Time: 3rd day of the first lunar month. 
Place:Tich Son Temple, Tich Son Ward, Vinh Yen City, Vinh Phuc Province.
Objects of worship: 7 gods of Lo Binh Son.
Characteristics: Contest of throwing to the pig, rice cooking contest and tug of war contest.

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Yen Lap Festival 
(in the fifth lunar month)
Time: From the 25th to the 27th day of the fifth lunar month. 
Place: Yen Lap Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: Dang Dao Song Nga - the god in the after-world who always support and assist Hai Ba Trung. 
Characteristics: Presenting to the saint ceremony; welcoming him to enjoy the festival on three joined boats; trai racing.

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Yen Lap Festival 
(in the fourth lunar month)
Time: The 21st of the fourth lunar month. 
Place: Yen Lap Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province. 
Objects of worship: The village's tutelary god. 
Characteristics: Banh giay feast, sword dance, buffalo fighting. 

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