Festivals in Quang Binh

Festivals in Quang Binh

Bao Ninh Village Festival
Time: From the 14th day to the 16th day of the fourth lunar month. 
Place: Bao Ninh Commune, Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Province. 
Objects of worship: Nhan than (father and son of fisherman) and Ca Ong (whale).
Characteristics: Procession of Ong's bone, "Ho khoan, cheo can" performance, bong (flower) dance. Sea festival involves the ceremony of floating paper boats, paper fish to the sea and praying, the boat race of six villages.      

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Canh Duong Festival
Time: 3rd to the 7th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Canh Duong Commune, Quang Trach District, Quang Binh Province.
Characteristics: Including cau ngu ritual and ky yen ritual. Contest of rice cooking in-group, have to cook rice while preventing a toad out of a circle.      

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Cau Ngu Festival
Time: 14th day of the fourth lunar month.
Place: Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Province.
Objects of worship: Ca Ong (whale).
Characteristics: Procession of Ong's bone from village to communal house.      

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Ho khoan (Alternate singing between rowers) Festival
Time: the 29th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Le Thuy District, Quang Binh Province.
Characteristics: Ho khoan song with 9 tunes (mai), each tune is symbolize a kind of work. At the night of the festival, alternate singing between boys and girls are taking place.      

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The worshipping ceremony of the beginning crop of cultivating rice seedlings in Le Son Village
Time: 1st day of the eleventh lunar month.
Place: Le Son Village, Tuyen Hoa District, Quang Binh Province.
Objects of worship: Village's tutelary god.
Characteristics: Worshipping to tutelary god (10 trays of steamed glutinous rice, 10 cocks), after that a couple which is good at work and has son and daughter is chosen to cultivate rice seedlings in the field which is in front of the communal house.      

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