The Tho people worship many kinds of gods and spirits, especially deities associated with fighting wars and reclaiming land. Within the family, they worship ancestors, hold ceremonies for the midwife goddess when children fall ill, and hold spirit-calling ceremonies for adults on holidays, at Tet or when they are ill. Souls that are not worshipped in the house are honoured with a shrine set up in the open air.
The "ngu mai" custom of the Tho people in Nghệ An lets young men and women talk overnight at festivals, strictly governed by customary law before marriage.
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.
Thổ Tú is one of the 9 governing stars in Cửu Diệu, classified as a neutral star. This article analyzes its meaning, influence, and the ritual to appease it.
Explore Đại Trạch Thổ (Great Estate Earth) in the Sexagenary Cycle: origins, Five Elements characteristics, compatible colors, directions and applications.
Thần chủ, a jujube wood tablet with name, title and dates, sits on the altar; custom keeps four generations, then the cao tổ tablet is buried at the fifth.
Ancestor worship is a long-standing Vietnamese custom, a moral standard, and a key part of spiritual life, with altars, death anniversaries, and Tet rituals.
Thành Hoàng is the guardian deity believed to protect each Vietnamese village, worshipped at the communal đình. Its origins, deity types and royal decrees.
Origins, rituals and cultural values of the Hung Kings Temple Festival in Phú Thọ, held on the 10th day of the third lunar month to honor the Hung Kings.
The Mường New Rice Festival in Hương Cần Commune, Phú Thọ falls on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month, when the Lang makes the offering at Khoang Đình.
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.
Hát Xoan Phú Thọ is ritual singing at the communal house gate to worship the Hung Kings, performed in three stages by four original Xoan guilds in Việt Trì.
The longevity celebration honours grandparents and parents at ages 60, 70, 80, 90 or 100, showing filial piety and respect for old age in Vietnamese culture.
Hiền Quan Phet Festival in Phú Thọ runs on the 12th and 13th of the first lunar month with palanquin procession, worship, troop march, and phet grabbing.
132 things to avoid and practical notes for Vietnamese offering rites, across 38 rite types, one sentence per row in three languages with the rite, region, tradition, type and source page addresses. Taken only from reviewed procedure rows; it describes custom according to the sources and prescribes nothing.
155 types of Vietnamese offering rites in 15 groups, from ancestor and death-anniversary rites, Tết and the festivals of the year to funerals, communal houses and temples, and the rites of ethnic communities; each with alternative names, timing, recipients, a short description, classification axes (cycle, social setting, beings worshipped, tradition, ethnic group, cultural region), a structured date and sourced passages on its customs. It is the key table for Nhật Nguyệt's datasets on offering prayers and rite customs.