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Time: The 6th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Ha Loi Village, Me Linh Commune, Me Linh District, Vinh Phuc Province.
Objects of worship: Hai Ba Trung.
Characteristics: Procession of palanquin and change palanquin, offering giay cake.
Every year, Ha Loi Temple opens festival on the day that Hai Ba Trung had offering flag to set up the movement in Me Linh Commune now, where Trung Trac took her throne.
Processions of the palanquins of Mrs. Trung Trac, Ms. Trung Nhi - the village's tutelary god, Mr. Cot Tung, two white elephants, one pink horse, one white horse. In the processions, people sing and dance old song. It is said that these old songs have in Trung Sisters time to encourage soldiers. The festival has a custom of offering giay cake, wrestling contest, playing human chess, swinging... and many other traditional games. The custom of changing palanquin reflects the feudal perception of hierarchy "Noi gia huynh de, ngoai quoc quan than" (it means in the family, Thi Sach was the superman authority, whereas with respect to the country at large Trung Trac was the monarch).
Time: From the 15th to the 16th day of the fifth lunar month.
Place: Bo Sao Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province.
Objects of worship: Dong Hai Dai Vuong.
Characteristics: Game of farming performance: villagers play in role of ploughman, raking people, rice seeds sowing people...
On the 16th day of the fifth lunar month, there is a procession of rice seeding on palanquin to Duong Temple, the tray of rice seeding is put on the cult of table to worship god, after that cultivate them.
Time: 6th day of the first lunar month to the 10th day of the second lunar month.
Place: Van Trung Village, Thuong Trung Commune, Vinh Tuong District, Vinh Phuc Province.
Characteristics: Spring market; sell and buy things for lucky; boat racing; sticks fighting; rice cooking contest; trach catching in a big jar.
An un-married couple with their hands on each other's shoulder while other hands put into the big jar to try to catch the trach (girgs) inside.
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