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Time: 7th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Cam La Commune, Ha Nam Island, Yen Hung District, Quang Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Founding fathers who built dykes, created the populated Ha Nam Island.
Characteristics: The senior men of the village (all older than 70 years old) go to the temple for congratulation ceremony; wrestling show.
Their children or grandchildren carry offering on their head to the decorative cult tables, especially there is a long ma (horse-dragon) made from fruits on the tray. The elder men follow them, if some of them be weak, aided by their offspring. After the liturgy comes the ground-breaking ritual: the four chosen longevity men pick four balls of earth and build a mock dyke in front of the incense table of the founding fathers (Tien Cong). They then perform acts of wrestling to represent the “struggle against nature". This is to continue the cause of those who built dykes on the sea to protect the villages and hamlets of the island.
After the ground-breaking ritual are games buffalo fighting, cock fighting, human chess, swinging, popular opera performance.
Time: The 8th day of the third lunar month, some years it lasts 4 days and nights.
Place: Yen Giang Commune, Yen Hung District, Quang Ninh Province.
Characteristics: It celebrates the Bach Dang Victories of national heroes struggled against foreign aggression: Ngo Quyen (938); Le Hoan (981), Tran Hung Dao (1288) and the famous Generals of the Tran Dynasty.
Time: The good day of the sixth lunar month.
Place: Yen Hung District, Quang Ninh Province.
Objects of worship: Tien Cong (founding father) and Agriculture genie.
Characteristics: Elders of village go to communal house and shrine to worship Tien Cong (founding father) and Agriculture genie. The neu tree is put in the field before the gate of the communal house, a thu tu (custodian of communal house) transplants rice seedlings around neu tree in the acclaim of villagers.
Time: The good day of the fourth lunar month.
Place: Yen Hung District, Quang Ninh Province.
Characteristics: Tien Cong worshipping ceremony in communal house and shrine, then people go to the field to sow rice.
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