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Time: The tenth lunar month.
Place: Muong Bi Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province.
Characteristics: Harvest Festival is held after harvesting bumper crop in the 10^th lunar month. During the Harvest Festival, the Muong also worship parents, ancestors.    (Detail)

Time: 10th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Ha Thach Commune, Phu Tho Town, Phu Tho Province.
Objects of worship: Hung Kings, Saint Tan Vien, Chu Dong Tu, Hai Ba Trung, and Water genie.
Characteristics: Three Thuong, Ha, Trung Hamlets carry palanquin procession to Ca Communal House then make grand sacrifices-offering ceremony, rong ran dance (one by one follows the leader), ha dien ceremony (worship the Agriculture genie before cultivating), trai racing.
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 Time: The tenth and the eleventh lunar months.
Place:Lai Chau Province.
Characteristics: Xoe dancing and avoiding going to the forest for picking up fire wood, cutting trees, grass in 3 days to pray for verdant vegetation around year.    (Detail)

Time: The 29^th day of the ninth lunar month.
Place: Dai Bai Commune, Gia Binh District, Bac Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Nguyen Cong Truyen — the ancestor of bronze casting and silver carving.
Characteristics: Head of families bring bronze and silver carving products to offer to the altar; incense offering to the ancestor, incense burning ceremony of people of the same age (49 years old), a dao singing, throwing and vying for bong tree.    (Detail)

Time: The 20th day of the ninth lunar month.
Place: Tan Thanh Commune, Huu Lung District, Lang Son Province.
Objects of worship: Ba Chua Thuong Ngan (goddess of mountain), co (girls), cau (boys).
Characteristics: Procession of co Bo Bac Le from Keng Temple to Bac Le Temple (co Bo goes to serve the mother Thuong Ngan), len dong (go into a trance), hau bong (séance or get into a trance and act as a medium).    (Detail)

Time: The 13th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Tap Minh Hamlet, Hoa Lu District, Ninh Binh Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god — Ngo Son Dai Vuong (in the reign of Hung Due Vuong) who had merit of fighting Thuc troops.
Characteristics: Offerings are black pig, steamed glutinous rice, rice wine.    (Detail)

Time: The 1^st day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Tho Hoang Hamlet, An Thi Town, An Thi District, Hung Yen Province.
Objects of worship: Tutelary god of hamlet Bui Dao Vuong Phuc Than who had merit of assisting Trieu Quang Phuc in fighting Luong troops.
Characteristics: Offerings are incense and flower, vegetarian meal, banh day; singing and fun games.    (Detail)

Time: From the 15th to the 20th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Hong Quang Commune, Nam Truc District, Nam Dinh Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god. Characteristics: Procession and making sacrifice to the god, wrestling, water puppetry, Chinese chess.    (Detail)

Time: The 19th day of the ninth lunar month.
Place: Tho Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: Tutelary god Hien te Anh Linh Hoa Nuong.
Characteristics: Vegetarian meal, oan (truncated cone of sticky rice), fruits, votive paper things, sacrifices — offering ceremony in three days.    (Detail)

Time: The 6th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Bot Thuong Village, Hoang Loc Commune, Hoang Hoa District, Thanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god — Nguyen Tuyen, a general who had great merit of assisting Ly Dynasty.
Characteristics: A triumphal merry-making party of village's tutelary god is held in 3 days, offering pig, steamed glutinous rice, rice wine.    (Detail)

Time: The 9th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Moc Cuu and Thuc Thoc Villages, Tho Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god — Rain genie.
Characteristics: Offerings are chay and giay cakes, fruits. Days after, offerings are steamed glutinous rice, pig, rice wine that are processed to Ngoc Son region for worshipping then the procession returns to sacrifice at temples of Moc Cuu and Thuc Thoc Villages.    (Detail)

Time: The 12^th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Bot Xuyen Commune, My Duc District, Ha Tay Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary gods — 3 brothers of Cao family, generals of Hai Ba Trung.
Characteristics: The feast which worship to tutelary god includes uncooked pork and glutinous rice.    (Detail)

Time: The 30^th day of the ninth lunar month.
Place: Vong Thi Village, Buoi Ward, Tay Ho District, Hanoi.
Objects of worship: Muc Than who had merit of saving King Ly Nhan Tong on West Lake.
Characteristics: Worshipping, cock fighting, tuong singing.    (Detail)

Time: the 11^th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Luong Qui Hamlet, Dong Anh District, Hanoi.
Objects of worship: Three generals: Mr. Thong, Mr. Qui, and Mr. Giang.
Characteristics: Rice cooking contest (7 steps: cut betel-nut into segments and prepare betel quid, card running, water pulling, rice husking, chicken catching and killing, and cooking rice). The contest recall the tale of training sodiers of three generals.    (Detail)

 Time: From the 16^th to the 17^th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: Nguyen Tri Phuong Temple, Buu Hoa Ward, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province.
Characteristics: Tien hien, Hau hien worshipping, procession of god, offering to worship god, tong on ceremony, boi singing, dancing.    (Detail)

Time: In the evening of the 14th day and the 15th day of the tenth lunar month.
Place: In the yards of the pagodas or of the residents' houses, ngo boat race in the Maspero River (Soc Trang Town).
Objects of worship: Moon deity.
Characteristics: Moon worshipping ceremony, floating lights on the water, ngo boat race.
Participators: The Khmer people in the South, the Hoa and the Viet people.    (Detail)