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 › Ethnic minority customs Which peoples in Vietnam keep their own New Year apart from Tết Nguyên Đán? The Mông, Hà Nhì, Khmer, Chăm and others, as reported in the press.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tet customs of the Dao Quần Chẹt people in Phú Thọ include making chung and day cakes, ancestor worship, and community rituals that mark the new year.
Updated 22 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Chôl Chnăm Thmây is the Khmer New Year, held in mid-April over three days with rituals like the Maha Sangkran procession and bathing the Buddha.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Spring festivals after Tết: ném còn, đẩy gậy and swings among the peoples of Lai Châu, and the pháo đất game of Hải Dương, with rules and meaning.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Tết in Huế runs from the twelfth lunar month to the seventh of the first: the Thướng tiêu rite, đạp đất, vegetarian offerings and many cakes and preserves.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Xíp Xí Tet of the White Thai people in Vietnam's Northwest is a festival for children, with rituals to worship spirits and ward off disease.
Updated 13 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The Si La people in Lai Châu celebrate Tet early, timing it to the harvest and peach blossoms, with black pig rituals and double chung cakes.
Updated 6 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Bái Đính Pagoda's mùng Sáu Tết opening features incense and lục cúng offerings, a palanquin procession to the ancient pagoda and spring festivities.
Updated 2 Nov 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Glossary Phong tục in English is custom, tập quán is usage, and truyền thống is tradition. See how the three differ, plus a vocabulary table of Vietnamese customs.
Updated 6 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Nào Pê Chầu, the Mông New Year, falls a month before Tết Nguyên Đán: sweeping the soot, the Xử Ka offering, the year-end meal and fetching new water.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Khụ Sự Chà, the Hà Nhì New Rice Festival in Mường Nhé, Điện Biên, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Mid-Autumn Festival customs differ across Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam, from northern rituals to lively Central festivals and Southern gift-giving.
Updated 29 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Dế Khù Chà, the rainy-season Tết of the Hà Nhì: soul-calling rites, glutinous rice cakes, swings and prayers for rain; each village picks its own day.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The La Chí people live mainly in Hà Giang, speak a Ka Đai language, keep a separate altar for each man in the house, and hold folk games during Tet.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals How children celebrate Mid-Autumn in northern, central and southern Vietnam: lantern parades, lion dances and the moon-viewing feast.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Khai Ha festival is the largest folk festival of the Muong people in Hòa Bình, held in the first lunar month to pray for good harvests.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Nung live mainly in Vietnam's northeastern provinces and speak a Tay-Thai language. Their customs center on ancestor worship and 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 › Traditional festivals Explore the Lùng Tùng Festival of the Thai people in the Northwest: origins, the Nàng Han ritual, agricultural significance, and festive activities.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Kinh (Viet) are 86.83% of Vietnam's population and speak Vietnamese of the Việt Mường group. Their villages and ancestor worship are covered here.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Phù Lá people include the Phù Lá Lão, Phù Lá Đen and Phù Lá Hán groups, living in Hà Giang, Lào Cai, Yên Bái and Lai Châu.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Life-cycle rites The Áp Hô Pang hair washing ritual of the White Thai in Quỳnh Nhai, Sơn La, tied to the Nàng Han legend, cleanses the old year and welcomes new fortune.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Sán Chay people include the Cao Lan and Sán Chỉ groups of northeast Vietnam. Their languages, stilt houses, altars and festivals are covered here.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Ê Đê live mainly in Đắk Lắk, southern Gia Lai, western Phú Yên and Khánh Hòa, speak a Malayo-Polynesian language and follow matrilineal customs.
Updated 19 Sept 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 › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Khơ Mú speak a Mon-Khmer language and live in Yên Bái, Sơn La, Lai Châu, Thanh Hóa and Nghệ An, worshipping five spirits.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tay are Vietnam's largest ethnic minority. They live in northeastern valleys, speak a Tay-Thai language, worship ancestors, and hold long tong festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Chicken feet divination at Tet and the new rice ceremony of ethnic minorities aims to predict fate and crops for the new year.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Tet Doi is a festival of the Muong people in Thu Cúc commune, Phú Thọ, to invite the 'rice maidens' back to the village.
Updated 9 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs The Neu pole is raised on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and lowered on the 7th of the first month, closing Tet. Its origins, meaning.
Updated 11 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk traditional practices Kieu fortune telling at Tet uses verses from Nguyễn Du's Tale of Kieu to predict outcomes. A randomly opened verse is read as an omen for the year.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities Vietnam's Cong people live mainly in Lai Châu, speak a Tibeto-Burman language and keep ancestor worship and their own festivals.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities The Tho people speak a Việt Mường language and live mainly in western Nghệ An and Thanh Hoá, with their own worship of spirits, ancestors and midwife deities.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The Roóng Poọc Festival of the Giáy people in Sa Pa is a spring plowing ritual with the Neu tree, nem con, tug of war and plowing contests.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The New Rice Festival of the M'Nong in the Central Highlands thanks the heavens and the rice spirit, with a buffalo sacrifice at its heart.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority belief The Tày of Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn and Tuyên Quang keep Then singing, the tính lute, and the Lồng Tồng festival, a heritage UNESCO inscribed in 2019.
Updated 19 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
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 › Historical figures Huyền Trân Princess Temple in Hue honors the Tran dynasty princess who expanded Vietnam's southern frontier. Its festival falls in the first lunar month.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The 12th Tam Giac Mach Flower Festival opens on 6 November 2026 in Đồng Văn, Tuyên Quang, with blooms from October to December.
Updated 25 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
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