Thi Cau Festival

3/14/2012

Time: From the 7th to the 16th day of the eighth lunar month. The main festival day is on the 10th day of the eighth lunar month. Place: Kim Temple, Thi Cau Ward, Bac Ninh City, Bac Ninh Province. Objects of worship: Saint Tam Giang. Characteristics: Water procession from Cau River to temple; palanquin procession, and procession of saint from Kim Temple to pagoda and communal house.

Singing worshipping songs at night of the 8th day of the eighth lunar month; contest of preparing feast (the dishes must be new, strange, delicious, clean and are placed nice will win the prize). This contest related to ceremony of praying for rain. It also involves the pigeons releasing contest. 

 

Source TCDLVN

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