Time: The fourth lunar month. Place: Tech Lim Ground, My Hoa Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province. Characteristics: Praying-for-rain ceremony is held at the Tech Lim Ground, the chief of hamlet lays feast tray. Don and Chuong hamlets arrange their troops to perform mock battle and pray the King Water for rain.

The festival of Temple worshiping Lady Au Co, who is believed the mother of the Vietnamese people,  kicked off on February 20 at Hien Luong commune, Ha Hoa district, northern midland province of Phu Tho, to celebrate the creation of the Vietnamese people in the lead-up to the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long- Hanoi. National [...]