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Cultural Festivals and Travels
Time: The 15th day of the twelfth lunar month.
Place: Some fishing villages in Khanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: Ca Ong.
Characteristics: Incense offering ceremony, procession of torch, horn playing by a team of women, drum beating by a team of men, the first incense burning by a boy, boi singing, ba trao singing.
Location: Khanh Son Stone Instrument is in Khanh Son District, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristic: Khanh Son Stone Instrument is a kind of the most primitive instrument of mankind.
Besides the discovery of the instrument, excavations and investigations also prove the presence of the signs of creating the instrument right at the place. And this instrument was created by the Raglay people.
Khanh Son is mountain district of Khanh Hoa and is also the land of tales and legends with To Hap Valley full of glorious victories during the two wars of resistance against the French and the Americans. In recent years, this name has become known to the whole country and the world thanks to the discovery the "Stone musical instrument", a kind of the most primitive of mankind (discovered in February in Western Highlands by a French, Mr Condominas).
Time: From the 23rd to the 27th day of the third lunar month.
Place: Vinh Phuoc Ward, Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province.
Objects of worship: The Goddess of the Region (the Cham).
Characteristics: Rites: washing statue and clothes changing, offering dance to Goddess, ghe racing, boi singing at night.
The Po Nagar Festival is biggest religious festival in the region, is held at Po Nagar Tower which located on the hill near the mouth of Cai River, north of Nha Trang City. The festival is organize to commemorate the Mother of the Region who according to Cham legends, created the homeland, maintained race, discoved rice tree, taught people how to cultivate. The Goddess of the Cham had become the Goddess of the Vietnamese inhabitants .The festival involves the singing and dancing to welcome people, stage performance and many fun games take place joyfully in the front of the main temple.
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