Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Heonik Kwon's ethnography shows how offerings to wandering souls in Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi help communities live with wartime memory.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Đông Sơn bronze drums: their dating, casting techniques, star motifs, Lac birds and frog figures, and what these reveal about ancient Vietnamese beliefs.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Khâu Vai Love Market in Hà Giang meets once a year, rooted in the legend of Ba and Ut and honored as national intangible heritage.
Updated 3 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Northwest Vietnam culture covers ethnic communities, harvest rituals, seasonal festivals and crafts like weaving, embroidery, forging and silver carving.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Fire Jumping Festival of the Pà Thẻn people is a sacred shamanic ritual seeking the fire god's protection, with barefoot jumps on glowing embers.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional dress The traditional costumes of the Lô Lô people in Hà Giang are a brocade masterpiece, with hand embroidery and vivid colors on pants, shirts, scarves and hats.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Ông Hoàng Bảy, a Le Dynasty general, is worshipped at Bảo Hà Temple in Lào Cai, blending hero veneration with Mother Goddess beliefs.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Hà Nam's Đọi Sơn Tich Dien Festival runs from the 5th to the 7th day of the first lunar month, reenacting King Lê Đại Hành's 987 plowing ritual.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Lễ hạ điền opens rice transplanting; lễ thượng điền marks formed ears or harvest end, both praying for good crops. Custom books differ on timing and names.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tết Hạ Nguyên on the 15th day of the tenth lunar month is one of Vietnam's four major traditional festivals, a time to thank heaven and earth.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Thiên Hà Thủy is the Na Yin for Bính Ngọ and Đinh Mùi years, belonging to the Water element, symbolizing vastness, purity and flexibility.
Updated 22 Aug 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Làng Chuông village in Thanh Oai, Hanoi keeps its centuries-old conical hat craft alive through spinning techniques and hidden stitches.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Discover the distinctive features of Huong Pagoda Festival: the pilgrimage journey through Yen Stream, the cave pagoda complex and offering rituals.
Updated 28 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Ngũ Xã bronze casting village in Hanoi has over 400 years of history, known for sophisticated techniques and artworks of Thăng Long spirit.
Updated 24 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Hát xẩm is a northern Vietnamese folk singing craft dated to about the 14th century, sung at markets, village yards and on Hanoi trams.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Southern Vietnamese funerals in press accounts: nhập quan, phát tang, cúng vong, ritual music, động quan and hạ huyệt, and where sources cover one locality.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Đào Nhật Tân is prized for its thick-petaled đào bích and đào phai. Learn the varieties, Nhật Tân growing craft, and Hanoi's Tet peach tradition.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Hanoi character in daily life shows in forms of address, inviting, hosting guests, and a reserve newcomers often misread as coldness.
Updated 22 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The tale of Mỵ Châu and Trọng Thủy as recorded in Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư and Việt Nam sử lược, with the comments of the old historians on it.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs What the Tet flower villages of Sa Đéc, Cái Mơn, Mỹ Tho and An Nhơn grow, when apricot leaves are stripped, and why Sa Đéc grows on racks.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional crafts Mỹ Nghiệp village in Ninh Thuận keeps the Cham brocade weaving craft alive, tied to the legend of Goddess Pô Nagar and its heritage today.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Northern Kinh households once set outdoor incense altars to Sơn thần and Thần Hổ, some building shrines to Mộc tinh at old tree bases.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Lễ tơ hồng honors Ông Tơ Bà Nguyệt after the bride arrives; lễ hợp cẩn has the couple share wine and betel in the bridal chamber. Rites and meaning.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Tết Trùng Thập, mùng 10 tháng Mười âm lịch, is the holiday of physicians and spirit mediums and the new rice festival. Its origin, where it survives.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ancestor worship The Thánh sư altar honours a craft's patron. Learn the three names, altar placement, ritual objects, and offering days per custom books.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Custom books explain the Tiền Chủ as the first owner's spirit, why many homes keep a cây hương altar in the yard, and how offerings are made.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Thổ Công and Thổ Địa guard the land of a Vietnamese home, distinct from the wealth-focused Thần Tài, worshipped as a triad with Thổ Kỳ.
Updated 17 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures An Dương Vương, the state of Âu Lạc and Cổ Loa citadel in the old histories and the legend of the magic crossbow: the Thục house, dates and site.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Tết markets in the North, Centre and South: what the year-end markets sell and why people go, from old accounts and present-day reports.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Cưới chạy tang is a rushed wedding before the funeral announcement, squeezed into one or two days because mourning would force postponement.
Updated 20 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Tết Đoan Ngọ falls at noon on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, when folk belief says yang energy peaks. The bug-killing custom and ancestor worship.
Updated 15 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Teeth blackening was once a Vietnamese beauty standard; how the dye was made in Huế, who practised it, and how it faded after 1907.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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