4. Cord and ironwood stake at tug-of-war ground & The rattan cord will be tugged back and forth through a ironwood stake' s hole. Rattan cord used in Hương Canh tug-of-war festival must be at least 45m in length and has a diameter of 3-4cm

9. Tug-of-war of Giáy ethnic minorities in Lào Cai province at Xuống đồng (starting a new crop festival)

2. Tug -of-war of the Việt people in Hữu Chấp village, Bắc Ninh Province: In preparing for the tug-of-war festival, the village chose wealthy young men and “unstained” families and divided them into two team: East and West

7. Tugging the cord back (in Hương Canh festival , the Việt people in Hương Canh village, Vĩnh Phúc Province)

10. Tug-of-war of Tay people at Lồng Tồng (starting a new crop) festival in Lào Cai province

3. Tug-of-war of the Việt people in Hữu Chấp village, Bắc Ninh Province After all rituals were finished, tug-of-war started. Two teams, East and West, competed in three rounds; whoever win two rounds are considered the winner. If the winner is East team, villagers believe that they are going to have a good crop and vice versa. East team always was arranged to be a winner of the game.

8. The ironwood stake at the tug-of-war ground of the Việt people in Long Biên District, Hanoi City

5. The village senior who marks the scale, the main referee of 2013 Hương Canh tug-of-war matches of the Việt people in Hương Canh village, Vĩnh Phúc Province

Tugging rituals and games are widely practiced by communities in rice cultivation culture in East and Southeast Asia, with a desire for good weather, good harvests or predictions related to success or failure of a crop. The scale of organizing tugging rituals and games, either at local or national level, depends on each member country. Tugging rituals and games of Vietnam are concentratedly practiced in the midlands, Red River Delta and North Central known as the cradle of wet rice civilization in such provinces as Vĩnh Phúc, Bắc Ninh and Hanoi city where the Việt people have been residing for a long time. In addition, the element is practiced regularly by ethnic groups such as the Tày, the Tai and the Giáy of Lào Cai province in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam, who were inherently rice farmers in history.

The art of chakan embroidery is a kind of sewing ornaments, image of flowers and symbolic drawings with colorful threads on cotton or silk fabrics. Usually with chakan embroidery masters sew women shirt, national cap, pillow, bedspread, headscarf, towel, curtain, coverlet for cradle, curtain for wall decoration and etc. In the chakan embroidery are used symbolic depictions and mythological images related to the nature and cosmos, which express people’s wishes and hopes