🗺 Since 2025 covers what were previously Quang Ngai, Kon Tum (Resolution 202/2025/QH15) 🎎 Khao Lề Thế Lính Hoàng Sa Ceremony: Days 15–16 of lunar month 3 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 › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Hre live in western Quảng Ngãi and An Lão in Bình Định, speak a Mon-Khmer language and hold the buffalo sacrifice as their largest rite.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Khao Le The Linh Hoang Sa ceremony on Lý Sơn, Quảng Ngãi honours Hoang Sa soldiers with orations and model boats set adrift before Tứ Linh boat races.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Co live in northwestern Quảng Ngãi and southwestern Quảng Nam, speak a Mon-Khmer language, and hold a buffalo sacrifice as their largest festival.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Xơ Đăng include the Xơ Teng, Tơ Đrá, Mnam, Ca Dong, Ha Lăng, Tà Trĩ and Chau subgroups in Kon Tum, Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi, with worship of Kiak spirits.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Bai Choi of Central Vietnam is a Tet game mixing folk singing with card draws, with about 30 cards and witty ho thai calls, inscribed by UNESCO in 2017.
Updated 23 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Cúng đất in Huế is held in the second and eighth lunar months, with three offering trays to thank the land deity and remember the former Chăm owners.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Cá Ông worship reveres whales as guardian spirits in Vietnamese fishing communities, with roots in the Cham sea god Po Riyak.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Four traditional Vietnamese house types compared: the northern three-bay house, Hue rường house, Central Highlands rông house and Northwest stilt house.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority belief UNESCO recognized the Gong Culture Space of the Central Highlands in 2005. Gongs shape the spiritual life of the Ê Đê, Ba Na and Gia Rai.
Updated 27 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The New Rice Festival is when the Xơ Đăng people of the Central Highlands thank the gods and spirits for a bountiful harvest.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Rơ Măm people belong to the Mon-Khmer language group and live mainly in Kon Tum. Learn about their language, worship customs and main festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Cầu Ngư festival honors the Whale God in central Vietnam, with fishermen praying for safe seas and good catches through rituals that bind the community.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Giẻ Triêng live around the Ngọc Linh massif, speak a Môn Khơ Me language, worship many spirits and keep farming rites tied to the swidden cycle.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The Giẻ Triêng in Kon Tum have a custom where girls prepare 100 to 300 bundles of courtship firewood as dowry, a measure of character and skill.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Whale worship and the Cầu Ngư festival form the spiritual core of South Central Coast fishing villages, tied to the sea and fishermen's beliefs.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Cha Chaih (An Than) ritual of the Giẻ Triêng people sends 7 young men into the forest for chaih charcoal, with vows to spirits and tool forging.
Updated 18 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Brau are one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, living mainly in Kon Tum. This article covers their language, worship customs, festivals and cultural life.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Nhật Quang and Nguyệt Quang Bodhisattvas are the two attendants flanking Medicine Buddha, symbolizing the light of the Sun and Moon shining on all beings.
Updated 1 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism Huyền Quang (Lý Đạo Tái), third patriarch of the Trúc Lâm Zen school after Trần Nhân Tông and Pháp Loa, is profiled via his life, deeds and surviving poetry.
Updated 22 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions How is a death anniversary kept in Central Vietnam? The tiên thường and chính kỵ rites, the joint 7th-month giỗ in Quảng Nam, and Hue dishes on the tray.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Emperor Quang Trung (Nguyễn Huệ) led the Tây Sơn movement and crushed 290,000 Qing troops at Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa in 1789.
Updated 14 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Vietnamese astrology Ân Quang counts from Văn Xương and Thiên Quý from Văn Khúc as day one, then counts to the birth day and steps back one palace.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Yên Tử Festival honours Emperor-Buddha Trần Nhân Tông, founder of the Trúc Lâm Zen sect, with its rituals and spiritual meaning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Ngái are one of Vietnam's 54 ethnic groups, with a very small population living scattered across Quảng Ninh, Hải Phòng, Bắc Giang, Lạng Sơn and Cao Bằng.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals November 2026 (23rd of 9th lunar month to 22nd of 10th) brings the Thái Nguyên Tea Festival, Gia Lai Gong Festival, Ok Om Bok, Kathina and more.
Updated 24 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Vietnam's October 2026 festival calendar: Côn Sơn Kiếp Bạc, Lam Kinh, Katê, Sene Dolta, Hanoi Autumn Festival, Keo Pagoda, plus lunar dates.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Khai bút, the Vietnamese custom of writing the first words of the new year: its legend of teacher Chu Văn An, when people do it, and what to write.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs The post-Tet ancestor farewell rite varies by region: hóa vàng in the North, tiễn ông bà in the Center, cúng tất in the South.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Trúc Lâm Yên Tử school founded by Trần Nhân Tông: its three patriarchs and the idea of cư trần lạc đạo, living in the world yet glad in the Way.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities Vietnam recognises 54 ethnic groups under the 1979 official list, with the Kinh majority and 53 minority groups spread across all regions.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Buddhism The Grand Memorial for Buddha Emperor Trần Nhân Tông's Parinirvana is held at Cung Trúc Lâm, Yên Tử and Ngọa Vân Pagoda each year.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Lồng Tồng of the Tày, highland first-furrow festivals, and the Kinh tịch điền rite compared: who organizes each and how the core rite differs.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Rong house is the cultural and spiritual heart of Central Highlands villages, hosting rituals, dispute resolution, and production planning.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals An overview of traditional Vietnamese festivals: agricultural, religious, commemorative, and ethnic festivals. Classification, meaning, and cultural value.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Autumn Keo Pagoda Festival in Hưng Yên honors Zen Master Dương Không Lộ with palanquin processions, the frog dance and boat racing.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Ông Hoàng Mười Temple Festival in Nghệ An holds its main ceremony on the 10th day of the tenth lunar month, tied to Mother Goddess worship.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Ba Na live in Gia Lai, Kon Tum and western Bình Định, Phú Yên and Khánh Hoà, speak a Mon-Khmer language and keep many community festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Buddhism Sun Moon Lamp Light Buddha is the last of twenty thousand Buddhas sharing one title in the Lotus Sutra's opening chapter.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites Vietnamese life-cycle rituals mark birth, coming of age, marriage, death and remembrance, with ceremonies shared by many ethnic groups.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures The Nguyễn Trung Trực Memorial Festival in Kiên Giang runs each year from the 26th to 28th of the 8th lunar month, honoring the hero who died in 1868.
Updated 1 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief The Chùa Ông festival on Cù Lao Phố (Thất phủ cổ miếu, Đồng Nai), 9th to 13th of the first lunar month: Quan Công worship, rites, national heritage in 2023.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional performing arts Cải lương grew in southern Vietnam from đờn ca tài tử and ca ra bộ; Cao Văn Lầu's 1919 song Dạ cổ hoài lang later became vọng cổ.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
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