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Bo Pagoda Festival

Time: the 28th day of the second lunar month.

Place: Thuong Lan Commune, Viet Yen District, Bac Giang Province.

Objects of worship: The ancestral bonze, who had merit of building the pagoda.

Characteristics: Commemorating the anniversary of the ancestral bonze's death.

Canh Bau Pagoda Festival

Time: 8th day of the eleventh lunar month.

Place: Canh Bau Pagoda, Dai Lam Commune, Lang Giang District, Bac Giang Province.

Characteristics: Gourd contest, which gourds are big, nice will win the prize.

My An Festival

Time: 7th day of the first lunar month.

Place: Truong Giang Commune, Luc Nam District, Bac Giang Province.

Objects of worship: General Vu Thanh (who made feats of arms in the struggle against the Yuan-Mongolian aggressors in the Tran Dynasty).

Characteristics: Mimic battle performance; throw offerings and vie for lucky; making cake contest.

San Pagoda Festival

Time: the 27th day of the second lunar month.

Place: Luc Nam District, Bac Giang Province.

Characteristics: Worshipping Buddha, setting up an altar to welcome flags from everywhere, offering to Buddha Trinity (the three treasure: Buddha, his law and the bonze), Duc Ong (His Royal Highness), the ten great halls, ancestral kowtowing, the Mau (Mother) kowtowing.

Suoi Mo Temple Festival

Time: The 1st day of the fourth lunar month.

Place: Suoi Mo Temple, Nghia Phuong Commune, Luc Nam District, Bac Giang Province.

Objects of worship: The Holy Mother of the Three Palaces.

Characteristics: Praying for people's peaceful life and prosperous, good crops. Boys and girls sing giao duyen songs (singing dialogues between boys and girls).

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