Tày Beliefs and Festivals: Then Singing, the Tính Lute, and the Lồng Tồng Festival
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.
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FestivalLồng Tồng Festival of Ba Bể
- Bó Lù hamlet, Ba Bể Lake, Thái Nguyên (formerly Bắc Kạn)
- Day 10 of lunar month 1
- Traditional festival
- 2027: no official dates yet; by custom it falls on 15 February 2027
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When and where is the Lồng Tồng festival held?
The festival is usually held in early spring, during the first lunar month, in Tày and Nùng villages across the Northeast such as Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn, Tuyên Quang, and Bắc Kạn, marking the start of the year's new agricultural season.
From the article “Tày Beliefs and Festivals: Then Singing, the Tính Lute, and the Lồng Tồng Festival”
Lồng Tồng Festival of the Tay People: The First Plowing Ceremony and Cultural Values
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Tay Ethnic Group: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs, and Main Festivals
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First-Furrow Festivals of the New Year: Lồng Tồng of the Tày, Highland First-Furrow Festivals, and the Kinh Royal Ploughing Ceremony
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.
Five-Color Sticky Rice of the Tay People: Natural Colors in the Lồng Tồng Festival
Five-color sticky rice is essential to the Tay people's Lồng Tồng festival, its colors drawn from natural leaves, roots and fruits with five-element meaning.
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Hám Long Kinh and Nghi Long Kinh: how the two classics attributed to Dương Quân Tùng read dragon veins
Hám Long Kinh and Nghi Long Kinh, traditionally attributed to Dương Quân Tùng: how they read dragon veins, the nine stars, and true versus branch dragons.
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Tống ôn, tống gió is a Mekong Delta ritual that sends epidemics and misfortune away by river. It explores how Covid-19 changed these ceremonies.
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Long Trì and Phượng Các Stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: Origins and Meanings
Long Trì and Phượng Các stars in Zi Wei Dou Shu: their origins, meanings, palace placement, and how they combine with other stars.
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The Craft of Bronze Casting for Worship: A Century-Old Flame in Lộng Thượng, Y Yen, and Đại Bái
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Children of the Dragon, Grandchildren of the Immortals: How the Old Histories Recorded the Tale of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ
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Eyebrow Shapes in Face Reading: Quan Công, La Hán, Tiger Brow, Sword Brow, Willow Leaf and Sparse Eyebrows
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What Are Tòng Cách and Chuyên Vượng Cách in Bát Tự? When Does a Chart Abandon Its Own Mệnh and Follow the Prevailing Force
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Visiting the Thăng Long Tu Tran Temples at the Start of Spring: The Order of the Four Temples, What to Pray at Each One, and the Mistakes First-Timers Often Make
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Bạch Mã Temple Guarding the East and the Deity Long Đỗ: Why the Spirit of the Navel of the Land Became the Tutelary God of the Entire Capital
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How Long Is the Cultural History of the Vietnamese People?
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Reading Eyebrows in Chinese Physiognomy
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Auspicious and inauspicious days classify a whole day by the twelve deities, while auspicious hours classify each two-hour block by that same set.
The Luo Pan Compass: Directional Tool in Feng Shui
The Luo Pan is a Feng Shui compass used to find house and main door directions. Readings work best away from metal and magnetic interference.
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Lê Thánh Tông
Emperor of the Early Lê dynasty, issuer of the Hồng Đức legal code and expander of the territory
Trần Nhân Tông
Emperor of the Trần dynasty, Buddha Emperor, founder of the Trúc Lâm Yên Tử Zen school
Tự Long
People's Artist, cheo actor and comedian, associated with Tao Quan and the Army Cheo Theatre
Trần Đình Long
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hòa Phát Group