Lệ Mật village festival dates back to the Lý Dynasty and is held from the 21st to 23rd of the third lunar month every year. The village's Tutelary god is Hoàng Đức Trung who, according to legend, was able to find the body of the Lý Dynasty princess on the Thiên Đức River and was allowed by the king to take people from Lệ Mật across the Red River, to reclaim land, and establish "Thirteen Camps". ” in the west of Thăng Long Citadel. The ritual includes water procession, literary procession, and incense offering ceremony of 13 villages and 19 families. The uniqueness of the festival is reflected in three activities: the first one is Fishing Ceremony (fishing at Ngọc well): village boys get into boats, throw nets to catch fish at Ngọc well. Catching a lot of fish and fish with yellow or red dots on their scales is good luck for the village. The second is Giao Long extermination performance, snake extermination dance. A beautiful girl plays the role of a princess, a young man plays the role of a young man whoes surname is Hoàng, wearing red clothes, a black hat, holding a sword to fight and cut off Giao Long's head (5 young men wearing woven models). bamboo frame, outside covered with fabric decorated with snake patterns) amid the encouragement and applause of the drums, the octagonal orchestra and the cheers of the people. The third is Welcoming ceremony for "Thirteen Camps" - Kinh Quán. At the village gate, an elderly man from Lệ Mật village stood dancing with the flag and villagers lined up to welcome the Kinh Quán delegations returning to their hometown to attend the festival. According to tradition, the celebrant is a Lệ Mật person; Vạn Phúc, read the wishes; Nam Hào is the Western singer; Giảng Võ is Eastern chant; The three camps, Vạn Phúc, Kim Mã, and Thủ Lệ, are offerings.

Meaning “elegant music”, Nha Nhac refers to a broad range of musical and dance styles performed at the Vietnamese royal court from the fifteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Nha Nhac was generally featured at the opening and closing of ceremonies associated with anniversaries, religious holidays, coronations, funerals and official receptions. Nha Nhac shares a nationwide scope and strong links with the traditions of other East Asian countries. Nha Nhac performances formerly featured numerous singers, dancers and musicians dressed in sumptuous costumes. Large-scale orchestras included a prominent drum section and many other types of percussion instruments as well as a variety of wind and string instruments. All performers had to maintain a high level of concentration since they were expected to follow each step of the ritual meticulously. Throughout historical transitions, Nha Nhac’s cultural context and functions have shifted. Beside its re-enacted performances for spectacle purpose, Nha Nhac music and its expressions are viable and relevant to local communities in Thua Thien Hue, especially in festive events and ceremonies, such as festival, funeral, ancestral worshipping ritual, and birthday anniversary.

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Thanh Liet Temple Festival - also known as the mussel procession festival, is a long-standing custom of Thanh Liet village, Hung Lam commune (now hamlet 9, Xuan Lam commune) held on the 6th day of the 2nd lunar month every year. According to the community's concept, the festival is to commemorate the merits of Nguyen Bieu, Princess Lieu Hanh and the water gods who bless the shrimp and fish catching, mussel raking on Lam river. The festival space is a section of Lam river about 2.5 kilometers long, from the river wharf in front of Thanh Liet temple to Phu junction, including rituals such as: ramming ceremony, welcoming ceremony, main ceremony, and chopping ceremony. On the 1st day of the 2nd lunar month, at the temple, the village's ritual committee performs a mediumship ritual to ask for the gods' instructions on organizing the festival. On the morning of the 5th, the ritual committee performs a ritual to ask for permission from the gods to hold the Pho Tro/Moc Duc ceremony. The most special ritual is the water procession. On the morning of the 6th, the Saint's palanquin is carried from the temple to the sandbank and put on a boat. The large boats of the fishing village are arranged in a long row, decorated with flags, flowers, sacrificial objects, and offerings... Leading the procession is the master boat with a decorated altar for the water god, on which the village's elders are carried, followed by the boat carrying the palanquins of the gods. They worship the water god at the junction of the Lam River (Nghe An) and La River (Ha Tinh). The master of ceremonies performs the rituals of worshiping the water god, the river god... typical of the river region. Legend has it that in this ceremony, there is also the ritual of carrying mussels and releasing mussels into the river, so the Thanh Liet Temple Festival has long been called the mussel procession. The ceremony lasts for 2 hours and ends with the procession of the god's palanquin back to the Thanh Liet Temple and the organization of the grand ceremony. The festival has games that are imbued with the identity of the river region such as swimming, prize-winning, diving, rowing, clam-raking, volleyball, tug-of-war, chess, etc. Thanh Liet Temple Festival is imbued with the identity of the river region, is a place to preserve the worship of water gods and reflects the professional thinking of the people in the lower Lam River. With its typical value, Thanh Liet Temple Festival was included in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism in 2018.

Lồng tồng means going down to the fields, an important agricultural ritual of the Tày people in Nam Mẫu commune, Ba Bể district, Bắc Kạn province, held on January 10th. The place where the Lồng tồng festival is held is a large, flat land in the center of the commune. The organizing committee erected a pillar in the center of the ground and built a stage to serve as an altar. The festival opens with an extremely bustling lion dance performance. In the past, representatives of households came together to carry offering trays to the largest plot in the village's fields. Today, representatives of each commune and town of Ba Bể district will lead the ceremony and put the ceremony on their heads. The ceremony tray includes fruits, candies, incense sticks, wine, sticky rice, and boiled rooster. The offering trays are set up in rows, with Master Mo's tray at the top serving as his offering tray for overseeing the event. Master Mo recites prayers, gives thanks to heaven and earth, prays to the Agriculture God, Phuc Hy God, Mountain God, Water God, and Tutelary God, praying for a new year with everything going as expected, prosperity in life and prosperity, and a bountiful harvest. The girls offered water that had been collected and kept cold in gourd shells. Sprinling water in all four directions, Master Mo lifted his face to the sky and everyone gathered to receive blessings. Following that, Master Mo carried out the shuttlecock throwing ceremony first; this is an exclusive characteristic of the Association. The festival took place very enthusiastically with folk games such as pushing sticks, blind man's bluff; duck neck throw; playing drums blindfolded; hit the spinner; performances and cultural exchanges such as then singing, dan ting, sli singing, lượn singing, bowl dancing, Khèn dancing, flute playing; competitions for sewing shuttlecocks, pounding rice cakes, and presenting feasts; souvenir and local agricultural product stalls; Photo exhibition about the homeland.