The Moon Festival originates thousands of years ago and is celebrated in many Far East Asian countries that once used the lunar calendar like Vietnam, China and Korea and is consider..
The more popular name for the Vietnamese New Year is Tet, where as the formal name is Nguyen-dan. Tet is a very inportant festival because it provides one of the few breaks in the ag..
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). O..
It happens in almost the regions of the Viet.
Offering glutinous rice flour cakes stuffed with plum of brown sugar (banh troi), glutinous rice flour cakes stuffed with green bean pa..
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On Ram Thang Bay (full-moon day), it is taboo for Vietnamese people to purchase clothes, unless they are for the dead, based on the concept tha..
The Lim festival, opening on January 13th (lunar year), is the leading Quan Ho song festival as many famous Quan Ho Song villages in the area take part in it.
Speaking of Lim fes..
There is a Vietnamese saying: "We have the Father's Festival in August and the Mother's Festival in March." The Mother's Festival is held in the Phu Giay Temple which is dedicated to..
Located in a suburban area of Hanoi, Trieu Khuc village is the site of a former 4,000-year old ceramics production centre.
Trieu Khuc village is nearly ten kilometres far from Ha..
Every year, many villages in Buoi region, Tay Ho district, Ha Noi respectively organize festivals from the 10th to the 20th of the 4th lunar month in memory of dead heroes, man of me..
This annual festival takes place from the 5th to the 10th of the first lunar month in Thanh hamlet, Thanh Liem district, Nam Dinh. This is a land of nice terrain with three high hill..
The Dong Ky firecracker festival Dong Ky village belongs to Dong Quang commune, Tu Son district, Bac Ninh province. Every year, on the 4th day of the 1st lunar month, Dong Ky village..
The Trung Sisters, two Vietnamese heroines who led a rebellion against the Han invaders (40-43 AD) are not only worshipped in Hanoi, but also in Dong Nhan village (Hai Ba Trung distr..
The ancient La Van is also named La Mien -the home of the traditional vocation - planting cotton and weaving cloth. The name La Van appeared firstly in 1941. Nowadays, La Van village..
This festival usually takes place in spring when the weather is fine, hundreds flowers bloom, nature seems to be supplied vitality and becomes nimble surprisely, maize and rice plant..
Dong Da hillock festival takes place annually on the 5th of Lunar New Year. This is a victorious festival, organized in memory of the King Quang Trung's great merit - the hero in nat..
Ba Den mountain - a nice and high mountain amid southern plain, 11 kilometres far from Tay Ninh town - is a celebrated lanscape making anyone who used used to have opportunity to com..