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Time: The 11th day of the eleventh lunar month.
Place: An Lu Commune, Thuy Nguyen District, Haiphong City.
Objects of worship: Tran Hung Dao, An sinh vuong Tran Lieu (the father of Tran Hung Dao), Tue Tinh (famous physician).
Characteristics: Worshipping, incense-offering ceremony, swinging, dum singing, cock fighting, Chinese chess.
Time: 8th to the 12th day of the first lunar month.
Place: My Dong Commune, Thuy Nguyen District, Haiphong City.
Objects of worship: Su Quyen, general of Hai Ba Trung.
Characteristics: Procession of ancestral tablet, worshipping, Chinese chess, cock fighting.
Time: April 1 (by solar calender).
Place: Cat Ba Town, Cat Hai District, Haiphong City.
Objects of worship: President Ho Chi Minh interested in fishing work.
Characteristics: Boat race celebrates the day President Ho Chi Minh paid a visit to Cat Ba fishing village in 1959 and that day is also the traditional day of aquiculture.
Opening of the race is tug-of-war item between boat teams on the sea. After that, fishermen from the territorial waters of Central and Southern parts perform coracle shaking. Then the dragon racing starts. The racetrack is 1km long. Signal flags are at two heads of the line. Racing boats will have to race 3 or 4 rounds. The prize will give for the boat comes to the finish first. This is a chance to find excellent rowers and boat commanders. The racing festival is very attractive.
Time: The 18th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Du Hang Kenh Ward, Le Chan District, Haiphong City.
Objects of worship: Ngo Quyen.
Characteristics: Cheo singing, ca tru singing, chau van singing.
Communal house opens festival every year, includes worshipping ceremony, a procession of ancestral tablet to the establishing of relationships between communes: Dong Khe, Hang Kenh, Phung Thap. Performances of cheo, tuong, ca tru, chau van in the evening and games of Chinese chess, wrestling, cock fighting... in daylight.
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