Hung King's death anniversary or Hung temple festival or National death anniversary is a holiday of Vietnam. This is a traditional festival of Vietnamese people to remember the merits of building the country of Hung Vuong. The traditional ceremony is held annually on the 10th day of the third lunar month at Hung Temple, Viet Tri city, Phu Tho province and is celebrated by Vietnamese people all over the world. Belief in worshiping Hung Vuong has been registered by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam on the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage and recognized by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The Hung Temple Festival takes place on the 10th day of the 3rd lunar month, however, the festival actually took place weeks before with customs such as stabbing (beating bronze drums) of the Muong ethnic group, pilgrimage to commemorate the kings and ends on the 10th day of the third lunar month with a palanquin procession and incense offering on the Upper Temple. The Hung Temple Festival is now raised by the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to the national death anniversary, and is held in even-numbered years.

Time: 10th March (Lunar Month)

Place: Phu Tho Province

Lim festival is one of the most famous festivals in Bac Ninh attracting tourists to visit and celebrate the beginning of spring with special programs, listening to Quan ho melodies and playing many folk games. Not only has the symbolic significance of the spirit, culture and spirituality of the people of Tonkin, the Lim festival also reminds the next generation of remembering the merits of their predecessors and educating them to preserve the traditional beauty of the country.

The Lim festival opens with a procession with a large number of people participating. On the festival day, many special folk rituals and games take place such as the custom of worshiping queens. All officials, incense elders, and men of the village must fully gather at Hong Van mausoleum to be able to offer sacrifices to the post-god. When performing rituals, male and female singers will sing Quan ho to praise the merits of the god. The festival takes place all over the villages in Noi Due canton and Hong Van mountain is the center, with a solemn and heroic ritual of sacrificial procession and many fun, unique and attractive games such as playing human chess, sing Quan ho, the nest of prostitutes, weave a cloth contest and so on.

Time: 13th January

Place: Bac Ninh Province

Tran Temple Festival is held from the 15th to the 20th day of the eighth lunar month every year in Loc Vuong ward, Nam Dinh city, Nam Dinh province to pay tribute to the merits of the 14 Tran kings. Since 2000, Nam Dinh has held the Tran Temple Sealing Ceremony at dawn on January 15. At first, the custom of opening the seal was limited to the space of Tuc Mac village, gradually becoming a big festival. The seal, which is square and made of wood, was made in the Nguyen Dynasty, late 19th century, early 20th century.

The East and West sides of the seal border are engraved with two dragons, the South side of the seal border is engraved with four words "Tích phúc vô cương". "Trần Miếu tự điển" has the classic content, the custom of worshiping at the Tran temple, the scope and small scale is the Tran family in Tuc Mac village. The Tran Temple festival is solemnly celebrated. The ceremony took place with processions from surrounding communal houses and temples to offer incense and sacrifice at Thuong temple to worship 14 Tran kings. In the incense offering ceremony, 14 virgin girls wearing 14 flower trays enter the temple to the ceremony to offer to the 14 kings. This ceremony is a retrospective of the ancient feudal court style.

The festival has many rich and unique forms of cultural activities such as cock fighting, five generations of martial arts, wrestling, lion dance, playing card chess, singing and dancing. It is these unique cultural activities that make the Tran Temple Festival more attractive.

Time: 15th - 20th August (Lunar month)

Place: Nam Dinh Province

Giong Festival is a big and unique festival commemorating Saint Giong, one of the "immortal" saints of Vietnamese folk beliefs. It is also one of the most famous and biggest festivals that has existed for thousands of years of history.

Right from about 2-3 weeks before the opening day of the festival, the villages participating in the festival have started preparing for the festival. According to the content written on the stele number 6 of the 8-sided stele, the assignment of procession of offerings in festivals of the villages is distributed in the following order: Ve Linh village (Phu Linh commune) procession of bamboo flower baskets, villages Duoc Thuong (Tien Duoc commune) procession of elephants, Dan Tao village (Tan Minh commune) procession of betel nut and areca nut, Duc Hau village (Duc Hoa commune) procession of ivory, Yen Sao village (Xuan Giang commune) procession of elephant grass, Yen Tang village (Bac Phu commune) procession of the general.

The main ritual on the main day of the Giong festival is offering bamboo flowers at Soc temple and cutting enemy generals. Bamboo flowers are made of bamboo sticks about 50cm long, about 1cm in diameter, the ends are sharpened and dyed. After the flower-offering ceremony, bamboo is released in front of the temple yard for festival-goers to take for good luck. Slashing enemy generals is done by cutting a statue, re-enacting the legend that Saint Giong used bamboo and ivory to kill the leader of the enemy, Thach Linh.

Time: 8th - 9th April (Lunar month)

Place: Gia Lam District

Huong Pagoda Festival is annually held at the scenic area of Huong Pagoda (or Huong Son) located in Huong Son commune, My Duc district, Hanoi. The Huong Pagoda Scenic Area is a cultural-religious complex consisting of dozens of Buddhist temples, a few temples worshiping the gods of communal houses, and agricultural beliefs. The center of the cluster of temples in this region is the Huong Pagoda located in the Huong Tich cave, also known as the Trong pagoda. This is a big festival held every year, attracting a large number of Buddhists from all over the country to participate in pilgrimage.

The Huong Pagoda Festival is not only an ordinary spring travel festival but also has great significance, imprinting the culture and beliefs of the North. The ceremony shows the worshiping beliefs of an overall religion in Vietnam including Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. While the festival is a combination of unique national culture with the beauty of nature, heaven and earth. Visitors come to the Perfume Pagoda festival not only to go to the supernatural and divine, but also to feel the harmony between people and nature, between people from different regions. Participating in the festival, visitors can not only offer incense to pray for peace, but also relief into the majestic nature and mountains imprinted with Buddha. You can also have a chance to experience unique ethnic cultural activities such as boating, mountain climbing, trying Cheo and Van melodies and so on.

Time: January - March (Lunar month)

Place: My Duc District

Mentioning the most famous festivals in Vietnam, Ba Chua Xu Temple Festival is not to be missed. For those who like spiritual tourism, Ba Chua Xu Temple built at the foot of Sam mountain, Chau Doc is definitely a top spiritual tourist destination in An Giang with beautiful architecture especially at night.

Ba Chua Xu Temple Festival is held from the night of April 23 to the end of April 27 of the lunar calendar every year. The rites of worship will also be performed by the people in the village according to traditional rites. Before the main rituals take place, on the 10th day of the third lunar month, the temple management board will elect a person to lead the ceremony. This person must be a person 60 years or older, healthy, have a spouse, children and good morals. The ritual part of the Via Ba ceremony includes five ceremonies: Ba Bathing Ceremony, Thoai Ngoc Hau's request ceremony to Ba Temple, Tuc Yet Ceremony, Adoration Ceremony, and Chanh Te ceremony. In 2001, the Ba Chua Xu Temple Festival was recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) as a national festival.

Time: 23th - 27th April (Lunar month)

Place: An Giang Province

Coming to the South, we want to recommend Nghinh Ong Festival, a traditional festival held to honor "His Excellency Ca Ong", also known as Nam Hai General, attracting a large number of people to attend the festival.

The atmosphere of preparation for Nghinh Ong festival was held in an atmosphere of joy, excitement and solidarity from families to Van Lach Association and all levels of government of the city and district. Roads, parks, markets, communal houses, temples, shrines ... are repaired spaciously, cleanly, banners, slogans, and festival flags are decorated lively and splendidly... At the places where the festival takes place, the local government coordinates to support the preparation of the ceremony ground, organizes exhibitions of the district's achievements in marine development during the year, prepares the stage for performing arts, folk games, playgrounds for children, and sets up a theater to welcome guests and delegates.

Fishermen's families, especially those on both sides of the road, set up tables in front of their houses with offerings of incense, fruits, rice, salt to offer to the God with the belief that his return will bring blessings to them, to their relatives and to the fishermen at sea.

Time: 15th August (Lunar month)

Place: Can Gio District

Ponagar Cham Tower Festival is a traditional event of the Cham people in Khanh Hoa province, this is the biggest as well as one of the most famous folk festivals of the year to commemorate the merits of the goddess Yang Po Inu Nagar for helping the people, bringing good things and happiness to everyone. In addition to the traditional ceremonies, the festival also has many rich cultural activities such as: Cham traditional dances, exhibition of pictures related to the Cham kingdom, Cham singing, making traditional pottery of the Cham people and performing Cham brocade weaving.

Ponagar Thap Ba Festival is known by many tourists and included in their schedule of Nha Trang travel. This festival is usually held at the Ponagar Ponagar Tower relic complex in Nha Trang, which is a complex of Champa architecture and is a mark of the ancient Champa kingdom to Vietnamese culture. The statues of Lord Shiva riding the Bull god Nandin, the mascots, elaborate carvings and sculptures built in the 13th century, have been preserved until now, representing the unique architecture of Champa Culture.

Time: 20th - 23th August (Lunar month)

Place: Nha Trang City

Harvest Festival, also known as New Rice Festival or Ha Nguyen Festival, is the most important festival in the system of traditional festivals of the ethnic groups in Vietnam. The celebration of new rice is as important to the ethnic minorities as the New Year of the Kinh people.

For ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, the god of rice is respected no less than other gods. The worshiping ceremony is annually held with the purpose of celebrating favorable crops and to make offerings to the gods who have helped the villagers get a fruitful harvest.

Depending on each ethnic group, organizations will have different characteristics, but the common point is sacrifices, eating new rice… For example, the Bana's new rice-eating ceremony takes place only for three days, when the harvest has begun. And the Somah Kek festival takes place when mass rice is harvested. Finally, the warehouse closing ceremony. Depending on each ethnic group, organizations will have different characteristics, but the common point is sacrifices, eating new rice…

Time: Unstable

Place: Central Highland

The traditional festival of Hoa Lu ancient capital or Bai Dinh Festival is a traditional event held in Ninh Binh province at the beginning of the third lunar month every year. It is an occasion to remember two emperors: Dinh Tien Hoang and Le Dai Hanh.

The festival consists of two parts:

• The ceremony part: includes the rituals of burning incense to worship Buddha, remembering the merits of Saint Nguyen Minh Khong, offering sacrifices to the god Cao Son and adoring Holy Mother Thuong Ngan. The festival begins with the procession of a palanquin carrying the cards of God Cao Son, Saint Nguyen and Queen Thuong Ngan from the old temple area to the new temple area to conduct the festival.

• The meeting part: there are cultural and spiritual activities such as: procession, calligraphy writing; Folk games; Visit caves, visit pagodas, enjoy the art of singing Cheo, Xam and Ca Tru in the ancient capital, organize art and cultural exhibitions, introduce Bai Dinh pagoda, and Trang ecotourism area. An. Delegates, monks, nuns and tourists joined the ceremony to release birds and animals to pray for peace, good weather and prosperity for the country.

Bai Dinh Festival always attracts a large number of tourists to participate. Visitors come here not only to worship and offer incense to the Buddha, but also to travel to the spring, enjoy the scenery, admire the magnificent scenery, immerse themselves in the vast and pure sacred space of the Buddha land.

Time: March (Lunar month)

Place: Ninh Binh Province