Thap Ba - Po Nagar Festival

Thap Ba - Po Nagar Festival

Time: 20th to the 23rd day of the third lunar month.
Place: Vinh Phuoc Ward, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: The Goddess of the Region (the Cham).
Characteristics: Rites: washing statue and clothes changing, offering dance to Goddess, ghe racing, boi singing at night.

The Po Nagar Festival is biggest religious festival in the region, is held at Po Nagar Tower which located on the hill near the mouth of Cai River, north of Nha Trang City. The festival is organize to commemorate the Mother of the Region who according to Cham legends, created the homeland, maintained race, discoved rice tree, taught people how to cultivate. The Goddess of the Cham had become the Goddess of the Vietnamese inhabitants .The festival involves the singing and dancing to welcome people, stage performance and many fun games take place joyfully in the front of the main temple.

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19 Founding Fathers Festival - Quang Ninh province

19 Founding Fathers Festival

The Temple of the Founding Fathers is located in the village of Cam La on Ha Nam island. It is devoted to the cult of the 19 founding fathers, who built the dikes that created the populated island of today. Every year the festival begins on the 7th day of the 1st lunar month, which according to legend was the day, over 500 years ago, that the founding fathers discovered an underground spring on the island.

For the occasion, dignitaries present themselves to the founding fathers at the Tien Cong temple, who then choose four elderly men to assist them in the ground-breaking ritual. On the 7th day, the senior men of the village (all older than 70), along with their children and grandchildren, go to the temple carrying offerings to the decorative cult tables. This ceremony generally end at noon.
Next is the ground -breaking ritual. The four chosen men pick four balls of earth and build a mock dike in front of the incense table of the founding fathers. They then perform acts of wrestling to represent the "struggle against nature". The following party lasts into the night.

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