Festivals in Nam Dinh

An Cu Village Festival Time: 6th day of the first lunar month. Place: Xuan Vinh Commune, Xuan Truong District, Nam Dinh Province. Characteristics: Sticks dance.

Festivals in Nam Dinh

An Cu Village Festival
Time: 6th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Xuan Vinh Commune, Xuan Truong District, Nam Dinh Province.
Characteristics: Sticks dance.      

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Bao Loc Temple Festival
Time: 20th day of the eighth lunar month.
Place: My Loc District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: Tran Hung Dao.
Characteristics: Sacrifices-offering ceremony and popular games.     

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Cao Dai Village Festival
Time: The 22nd day of the seventh lunar month. 
Place: Cao Dai Village, My Thanh Commune, My Loc District, Nam Dinh Province. 
Objects of worship: The Great tutor Tran Quang Khai and Princess Phung Duong (his wife).
Characteristics: Procession of god, sacrifice-offering ceremony, performance of the old tales of arresting invaders by fishermen, the female lord of Muong cooking rice for the soldiers, and games such as wrestling, contests of duck catching, trai racing, cloth weaving.     

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Co Le Pagoda Festival
Time: From the 13th to the 16th day of the ninth lunar month.
Place: Co Le Townlet, Truc Ninh District, Nam Dinh Province. 
Objects of worship: Zen Buddhist Nguyen Minh Khong, the ancestor of bronze casting. 
Characteristics: Buddha and patron saint worshipping, boat racing on Dao River, water puppetry shows, boi chess playing.      

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Co Trach Temple Festival
Time: 18th to the 20th day of the eighth lunar month.
Place: Loc Vuong Ward, Nam Dinh City, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: Tran Kings.
Characteristics: Sacrifices-offering ceremony, paying pilgrimage, incense offering.      

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Co Tung Hamlet Festival
Time: 1st day of the ninth lunar month.
Place: Nam Hong Commune, Nam Truc District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of honour: Village's tutelary god - Pham Hoang Giap, who had merit of fighting aggressors on sea.      

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Dim Temple Festival
Time: 30th day of the first lunar month to the 2nd day of the second lunar month.
Place: Nam Duong Commune, Nam Truc District, Nam Dinh Province.
Characteristics: Sacrifices- offering ceremony, and procession, traditional games such as wrestle, to tom playing (card game using a deck of 120 cards and played by five persons), cheo singing (popular opera).      

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Dong Cao Temple Festival
Time: 18th day of the eighth lunar month. 
Place: Dong Cao Village, Yen Loc Commune, Y Yen District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: An Duong Vuong and My Chau.
Characteristics: Procession of My Nuong's palanquin to visit and confess her faults with her father.      

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Hat Communal House Festival
Time: From the 15th to the 20th day of the tenth lunar month. 
Place: Hong Quang Commune, Nam Truc District, Nam Dinh Province. 
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god. Characteristics: Procession and making sacrifice to the god, wrestling, water puppetry, Chinese chess.      

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Keo Hanh Thien Pagoda Festival
Time: From the 13th to the 15th day of the ninth lunar month. 
Place: Hanh Thien Village, Xuan Hong Commune, Xuan Truong District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: The Buddha and Zen Buddhist Khong Lo - the ancestor of bronze casting, who was talented in doctoring, literature, poetry, architecture and had merit in serving the King and country. 
Characteristics: Incense-offering ceremony, worshipping, praying, dragon dance, boat racing on Hong River (only for man).      

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La Xuyen Village Festival

Time: The 11th day of the third lunar month. It is held once every 3 years in the years of Mouse, Cat, Horse, Rooster. 
Place: La Xuyen Village, Yen Ninh Commune, Y Yen District, Nam Dinh Province. 
Objects of worship: Lao La (an old man La), the founder of woodenwork in the Pre-Le Dynasty and Princess Lieu Hanh. 
Characteristics: Water procession, God of the soil procession, swinging, feast cooking contests between families.      

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Luong Pagoda Festival 
(Tram Gian Pagoda - Hundred-room Pagoda)
Time: 13th to the 16th day of the third lunar month.
Place: Hai Anh Commune, Hai Hau District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: Tran Vu, Vu Chi, Hoang Gia, Pham Cap - 4 ancestors from Co Le came here to break fresh ground and set up the village in 1486.
Characteristics: Worshipping for good health, good luck, worshipping Buddha, palanquin procession.      

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Phu Day Festival
Time: From the 1st to the 10th day of the third lunar month, the main festival day is on the 3rd day of the third lunar month. 
Place: Phu Day, Kim Thai Commune, Vu Ban District, Nam Dinh Province. 
Objects of worship: Princess Lieu Hanh - the Holy Mother. 
Characteristics: The procession of the Holy Mother, Chinese character forming game, hau dong (seance - typical ritual of the tradition of worshipping Holy Mothers of the Viet).      

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Phuong Bong Communal House Festival
Time: The 15th day of the eleventh lunar month. 
Place: Nam Dinh City, Nam Dinh Province. 
Objects of worship: General Tran Quang Khai. 
Characteristics: Worshipping, ritual dance, bai bong dance (also called bat dat dance performing by 64 people), lanterns dance, silk dance.     

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Phuong Thanh Festival
Time: 5th to the 7th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Phuong Dinh Commune, Truc Ninh District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: The founding father of weaving village.
Characteristics: Weaving contest, cock fighting contest, Chinese chess, wrestling contest.      

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Tran Temple Festival
Time: 15th to the 20th day of the eighth lunar month. 
Place: Loc Vuong Ward, Nam Dinh City, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: 14 Tran Kings.
Characteristics: Proclamation worshipping, procession, cheo singing, sword dance.      

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Truc Chinh Communal House Festival
Time: 10th to the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Place: Truc Chinh Commune, Truc Ninh District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: Trieu Quang Phuc.
Characteristics: Sacrifices-offering ceremony, preparing feast contest of 18 giap, banh giay making contest, fat pig feeding contest.      

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Vi Khe Flower Festival
Time: 20th to the 30th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Nam Truc District, Nam Dinh Province.
Characteristics: The fair of flowers and ornamental plants. Contests of wrestle and running.      

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Vieng Market Festival
Time: 8th day of the first lunar month. 
Place: Kim Thai Commune, Vu Ban District and Nam Giang Town, Nam Truc District, Nam Dinh Province. 
Characteristics: Opens only one in a year, selling and buying things for lucky.      

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