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Hùng Vương altar on Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương at a school. The Hùng Kings' Temple Festival (Vietnamese: Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương or Lễ hội đền Hùng) is a Vietnamese festival held annually from the 1th to the 10th day of the third lunar month in honour of the Hùng Vương or Hùng Kings.
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning 'festivals'; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both terms come from Sino-Vietnamese, respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, another Sino-Vietnamese term ...
Tết Đoan Ngũ, Tết Trùng Nhĩ or Tết Nửa Năm (Nửa Năm: a half of a year) is a festival celebrated at noon on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. [1] This day is the day around the time when the tail of the Great Bear points directly to the south, that is, around the time of the summer solstice.
Tết Trung Thu (chữ Hán: 節中秋) is a traditional Vietnamese festival held from the night of the 14th to the end of the 15th of the 8th lunar month (Rằm tháng Tám, chữ Nôm: 𠄻躺渗). Despite its Chinese origin, the festival has recently evolved into a children's festival ( Tết Thiếu Nhi ), [ 2 ] also known as Tết Trông ...
The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as Tết Trung Thu (Chữ Nôm: 節中秋) in Vietnamese. It is also commonly referred to as the "Children's Festival". [10] The Vietnamese traditionally believed that children, being the most innocent, had the closest connection to the sacred, pure and natural beauty of the world.
The lunar new year, Tết Nguyên Đán and the mid-autumn moon, Tết Trung Thu, continued to be observed as traditionally. [ citation needed ] In 1985, the PAVN lead the 40th National Day Parade in Hanoi in its biggest parade in history.
In Vietnam, Lễ hội làm chay is another water festival mainly celebrated in the parts of the Southern Vietnam. It’s only held at January 14-16 of the Vietnamese lunar calendar, different to the one celebrating on April. During festivals, along the roads, many young people use spray hoses, brasses, and buckets to splash water on passersby.
Teej (Sanskrit: तीज, romanized: Tīja), literally meaning the "third" denoting the third day after the new moon when the monsoon begins as per the Hindu calendar, is a combined name for 3 Hindu festivals primarily dedicated to Hindu deities - the mother goddess Parvati and her male consort Shiva, mainly celebrated by married women and unmarried girls mostly in Nepal and North India to ...