Discover Vietnam's century-old incense villages, where the spiritual culture is preserved through each handmade stick, from Quảng Phú Cầu to Thủy Xuân.
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Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day on June 21 marks the first issue of Thanh Nien newspaper founded by Nguyễn Ái Quốc in 1925. Learn its history and meaning.
Updated 21 Jul 2026Culture and belief
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Tam Thức covers Thái Ất, Lục Nhâm and Kỳ Môn. This piece traces how it reached Vietnam and asks what is history and what is legend around Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm.
Vietnam Doctors' Day (February 27) traces back to Ho Chi Minh's 1955 letter to a health cadres conference. Learn its origin, three teachings, and meaning.
Buddhist meditation covers both meditative concentration and the Zen school, arriving in Vietnam from the early Common Era and thriving under the Lý and Trần.
Funeral customs across Northern, Central and Southern Vietnam differ in coffin size, burial timing and reburial, with Hue royal culture shaping Central rites.
Vietnamese ancestor worship varies by region, ethnicity and setting, from the central altar to Cửu huyền thất tổ honored in some southern communal houses.
Vietnamese worship customs vary by region and ethnicity through environment, migration, and cultural exchange, not through one practice being more correct.
Việt Bắc and Northeast Vietnam are two names with different scopes. This article analyses Then singing, market fairs, village life and local variations.
Updated 19 Sept 2026Culture and belief
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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.
Cham weddings in Southern Vietnam follow Islam through proposal and days of ceremony, with matchmakers, betel offerings, bride price and Quran recitation.
Southern and northern Tết Eve worship differ in the outdoor Heaven altar, the indoor tray and offerings, with origins, meaning and how to prepare each.
Tet rites in southern Vietnam: welcoming the ancestors on the 30th, giao thừa offerings outdoors and indoors, Tết nhà on the third, farewell on the fourth.
Northern Vietnamese Tet worship runs from seeing off the Kitchen Gods on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month to welcoming ancestors and the vang ma burning rite.
Mừng tuổi and lì xì are one Tết custom with two names: the northern term, the southern Cantonese loanword, and practices recorded in Huế and the old South.
Nguyễn Trãi, world cultural celebrity, was the soul of the resistance against the Ming and spent years at Côn Sơn writing and reflecting on benevolent rule.
Captain of the Vietnam women's national football team at the 2023 Women's World Cup and a striker recognised as the best in the history of Vietnamese women's football
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Truong Hai Group (THACO), a pioneering entrepreneur in the field of automobile manufacturing and assembly in Vietnam