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| Tet Doan Ngo |
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This is the middle year festival for the prevention of disease and ward off evil spirits (the day of changing weather from spring to summer, this is the time easy to get pathogen). On the day of “killing insects”, every one has to get up early, eat fermented sticky and fruits. The worshipping is held at noon, hour of Ngo. | |
| Tet Nguyen Dan |
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Tet is the biggest and the most sacred festival. It is the most attractive to a majority of the Vietnamese. Tet falls on a time when the old year is over and the New Year comes by lunar calendar. This is also the time when the cycle of the universe finishes: winter ends and spring, the season of birth of all living things, comes. | |
| Tet Han Thuc-Cold goods Tet |
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Offering glutinous rice flour cakes stuffed with plum of brown sugar (banh troi), glutinous rice flour cakes stuffed with green bean paste (banh chay) to worship ancestors, an occasion for people to visit and tidy the burial graves of relatives, having fun in spring. | |
| Tet Trung Nguyen |
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Time: 15th day of the seventh lunar month.
Place: Pagodas in the country and in families.
Objects of worship: The Buddha.
Characteristics: The deceased pardoning ceremony, praying to clear of false charges. | |
| Tet Trung Thu |
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Tet Trung Thu is formerly autumn festival, and then becomes "tet trong trang" (moon looking festival) of children. On this day, the moon is the brightest and roundest in the year, cool weather. The festival involves the custom of trong trang, procession of lights (parading with lanterns shaped as moon and stars), lion dance and eating pasties and fruits. | |
| Chol Chnam Thmay Festival |
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Khmer people’s new year festival lasts three days and four days in leap years. Each of these days has its own name. Apart from worshipping the Buddha, Khmer people believe that every year the heaven sends a god called Tevoda to the earth to look after human beings and their life. | |
| Chol Chnam Thmay Festival |
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Khmer people’s new year festival lasts three days and four days in leap years. Each of these days has its own name. Apart from worshipping the Buddha, Khmer people believe that every year the heaven sends a god called Tevoda to the earth to look after human beings and their life. | |
| Cau Phuc Festival - Praying for good fortune Festival |
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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). | |
| Harvest Festival |
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Harvest Festival is held after harvesting bumper crop in the 10th lunar month. During the Harvest Festival, the Muong also worship parents, ancestors. | |
| Ke Pagoda Festival |
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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) | |
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