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Festivals
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Yen Festival
Time: the 10th to the 12th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Bac Ninh City, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Truong Hong, Truong Hat.
Characteristics: Praying for good crops, quan ho singing, characters forming, vieing for ball.
Spring Walking Festival
Time: The 8th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Yen Phong District, Bac Ninh Province.
Characteristics: Four villages had joined efforts to drive the robbers from the villages and worked together in production.
Tu The Village Festival
Time: 9th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Tri Qua Commune, Thuan Thanh District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: The village's tutelary god who looks after the farming.
Characteristics: Cooking rice and dishes contests
To Pagoda(Dai Bi Tu) Festival
Time:18th to the 23rd day of the first lunar month.
Place: Van Ty Village, Thai Bao Commune, Gia Binh District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship:The bonze Huyen Quang (one of three founders of Truc Lam Zen in Tran Dynasty).
Characteristics: Sutras reading, oan procession (truncated cone of sticky rice), incense offering, worship Buddha. Contests of making oan, wrestle, weaving, boat racing and tradition performance.
Thi Cau Festival
Time: From the 7th to the 16th day of the eighth lunar month. The main festival day is on the 10th day of the eighth lunar month.
Place: Kim Temple, Thi Cau Ward, Bac Ninh City, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Saint Tam Giang.
Characteristics: Water procession from Cau River to temple; palanquin procession, and procession of saint from Kim Temple to pagoda and communal house.
Quang Lam Village Festival
Time: 5th to the 12th day of the third lunar month.
Place: Han Quang Commune, Que Vo District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: The village's tutelary god.
Characteristics: The village's tutelary god worshipping ceremony in the morning, and in the afternoon small group of female singers sing worshipping genie songs at the communal house, boys and girls sing giao duyen songs.
Phat Tich Pagoda Festival
Time: The 4th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Phat Tich Commune, Tien Du District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Quan Yin Buddha and Ly Thanh Tong.
Characteristics: Worship Buddha.
Ngoc Xuyen Festival
Time: the 6th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Dai Bai Commune, Gia Binh District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: The first Saint (Lac Long Quan), the second Saint (the founder of bronze casting Nguyen Cong Truyen).
Characteristics: Custom of god worshipping, "rông lôt" game (Re-performing the merit of Lac Long Quan).
Nga Hoang jostling Village Festival
Time: 7th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Nga Hoang Commune, Que Vo District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Linh Son My Nuong.
Characteristics: People jostle even in the worship ceremony and have a procession of god around the village.
Long Kham Village Festival
Time: The 7th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Long Kham Village, Viet Doan Commune, Tien Du District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Ly Phu Quan (in the period of pre - Ly Dynasty).
Characteristics: Re-performing the military exploits of the village's tutelary god, custom of vying for moc tat tree (son tree). The viewing is spent only for the people who over 50 years old, running to the field and returning to the communal house and it may takes place all day and night.
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