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Time: The 4th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Ninh Hiep Commune, Gia Lam District, Hanoi.
Objects of worship: Mother Buddha Man Nuong, Phap Van (Ba Nanh), Sakyamuni Buddha, and Saint Tran Hung Dao.
Characteristics: Custom of worshipping, lift phan tree.
The festival includes the sacrifices - offerings ceremony, a procession of Ba Nanh's palanquin to Thach Ban (cay vong - coral tree ground), pulling-horse ceremony, incense and flower procession from the Patriarch house to the pagoda. Traditional folk games: wrestling, human chess, singing contest, cock fighting, boat rowing, water puppetry. The most unique game is the game of lifting phan tree. At the end of the festival is the incense offering ceremony.
Time: 4th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Nghe Village, Nghia Do Ward, Cau Giay District, Hanoi.
Objects of worship: General Tran Cong Tich, Queen Hong Nuong, and Que Nuong - a lady of high degree.
Characteristics: Rice cooking contest, before cooking the contestants must make fire by pulling giang thread through the hole of a bamboo chunk, one keeps and another tugs. Three stakes of bamboo are fix in the ground that made a cooking fire for the contestants.
Time: the 10th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Nghi Tam Communal House, Quang An Ward, Tay Ho District, Hanoi.
Objects of worship: Vo Trung, Vo Quoc, Bao Trung, Princess Quynh Hoa, Saint Minh Khiet, Tay Ho water-nymph.
Characteristics: Skiff rowing race, contests of flower, bonsai tree.
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