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Sep 28, 2023 | Festival and Culture, Hue

Festival in Hue – Discover unique events in the ancient capital

Festival and Culture, Hue

The Festival in Hue always brings extraordinary impressions to visitors. Take advantage of the opportunity to explore unique traditional culture to understand more about the characteristics of Vietnamese history and culture.

Festivals in Hue with vibrant activities and rich regional colors create a unique culture that attracts tourists visiting the ancient capital. So what does the Hue’s festival have? Yourvietnam.org will help you have an experiential journey to Hue.

Thanh Tra Festival

  • Time: Held every 2 years
  • Location: Thuy Bieu Ward – City. Hue
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Hue festival offering Thanh Tra is recreated

The Hue Thanh Tra Festival is usually held when Thanh Tra fruit is harvested (late August to early September). When coming to the festival, visitors can visit and shop for famous fruits of Hue, with the focus being Thanh Tra fruit. 

Hue Thanh Tra Festival also has many programs to serve tourists, such as the Hue Thanh Tra delicious fruit product contest, the Thanh Tra ceremony, and folk games…

More specifically, in addition to enjoying fresh fruit, visitors also have the opportunity to enjoy dishes made from Thanh Tra fruit itself, such as Thanh Tra soup, simmered Thanh Tra, Thanh Tra sweet soup, and soup. Thanh Tra…

Hon Chen Palace Festival

  • Time: March 2 – 3 and the 7th lunar month every year
  • Location: Hue Nam Palace – Huong Tra – City. Hue
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Hon Chen Palace Festival is one of the largest and most solemn festivals

Festival Hon Chen Palace is one of the traditional festivals in Hue in particular and Vietnam in general. It is held at Hon Chen Palace when the new year has just turned. The festival took place very solemnly with the procession of the Holy Mother Thien Y Na. 

The procession ceremony takes place on the Perfume River, with many boats brightly decorated with yellow and flags as the central theme. The procession carries the Holy altar, the Holy Mother’s palanquin, the king’s royal coffin, and weapons such as flags, fans, and ashes… 

After the end of the procession is the Tuc Yet ceremony. Going to the field to serve the shadow takes place until the end of the ceremony.

Hue Festival – The most attractive festival in Hue

  • Time: Even years
  • Location: City. Hue
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Hue Festival has a very grand scale

Festival in Hue, formerly known as the Vietnam-France Festival, was held in 1992 and was renamed the current Hue Festival in 2000. Since then, the festival has become a major cultural event to commemorate the values of Hue. 

Traditional values of Hue capital and promoting those values to tourists from all over. So that, tourists can attend the Nam Giao Sacrifice Ceremony, Ao Dai Festival, Royal Night, Kite Flying, and Human Flag…

Phu Do vermicelli village festival

  • Time: January 22 of the lunar calendar
  • Location: Ba Bun Temple, Van Cu village, Huong Tra district, City. Hue
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Experience at Phu Do vermicelli village 

The festival in Hue at Phu Do vermicelli village has two parts: the ceremony and the celebration. Early in the morning of the 22nd day of the first lunar month, people will prepare traditional products of their craft villages along with other agricultural products to offer to Ba Bun. 

At the end of the ceremony is the festival with the palanquin procession of the Holy Elder, the Monsignor, and the Two Ladies. That is the founder of the noodle craft, Nguyen Tho, and two ladies: Mrs. An and Mrs. Phuong). This is a traditional cultural beauty of Phu Do village that visitors can experience.

Du Tien Festival – Tet festival in Hue

  • Time: January 4 of the lunar calendar
  • Location: Phong Hien commune, City. Hue
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The Du Tien Festival is fascinating

Du Tien Festival is a Tet festival in Hue that has more of a talent competition than a performance and is a bit adventurous. The main festival is the swing trees made of bamboo and tied manually by the people. 

“Contestants” participating in the swing will fasten their safety belts securely and then freely launch themselves on those swing trees. Because the Hue Fairy Festival has a competition feel, there will be prizes for snatching the pink scarf tied at approximately the same height as the swing stand.

Sinh village wrestling festival

  • Time: January 10 of the lunar calendar
  • Location: Lai village, Phu Mau commune, Phu Vang district, Hue
Sinh Village Wrestling Festival 
Sinh Village Wrestling Festival 

In principle, Sinh Hue Village Wrestling Festival also uses national wrestling rules as the competition rules. Wrestlers who want to defeat their opponents need to find a way to wrestle the opponent upside down and not let them stand up. 

In addition, wrestlers are not allowed to use “destroying” attacks that are dangerous to opponents, such as bending, twisting, joint locking, etc.

Boat racing Hue’s festival

  • Time: September 2 every year
  • Location: City. Hue
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The boat racing is one of the modern festivals

The boat racing festival in Hue uses a different format than international competitions at home and abroad. Each team will have to go through 3 rounds of 6 shuffles with men and 2 rounds of 4 shuffles with women. The boats race in 3 primary turns along the Huong River, turning around at the start and the last turn at the finish line.

Hue Bai Choi Festival

  • Time: 1st to 10th day of the first lunar month every year
  • Location: Thanh Toan tile bridge, Thanh Thuy commune – Huong Thu district
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Unique features of the Bai Choi

Bai Choi is an ancient folk game of people in the central region. In Hue, the annual Bai Choi Festival is held at Thanh Toan Tile Bridge – a national cultural relic in Thanh Thuy commune, Thanh Thuy district. 

The unique feature of Bai Choi is not the playing of cards as its name suggests, but the witty rhymes and rhymes of the card giver and the players.

Hue Minh Huong Association

  • Time: 14th to 16th day of the 7th lunar month every year
  • Location: Minh Huong Village, Dien Hai Commune, Phong Dien District, Thua Thien Hue Province
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The Hue Minh Huong ceremony takes place at Minh Huong village 

Hue Minh Huong Festival has a spiritual solid color with the desire for a bountiful year with good weather and good weather for fishermen. Help people have a peaceful beach season and a prosperous life. 

The festival aims to honor the God of Khai Canh. It is held at Minh Huong village communal house, Dien Hai commune, Phong Dien district, with many unique activities associated with fishermen such as boat racing, net casting, boat procession…

Cau Ngu Festival in Hue – Hue Festival of fishermen

  • Time: January 12 of the lunar calendar every year
  • Location: Thai Duong Ha Village, Thuan An Commune, Phu Vang District, Thua Thien Hue Province
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Unique fishing festival 

Cau Ngu Festival is a unique festival of coastal people in Thai Duong Ha village. The festival is divided into two main parts: Ceremony and celebration. During the ceremony, people will prepare the ceremony to offer to the tutelary god early in the morning. 

During the festival, people will put on fishermen’s costumes and recreate scenes of life at sea. In addition, the festival also has solemn ceremonies to pray for a smooth sailing year for coastal fishermen.

In addition to participating in attractive Hue festivals, visitors to Hue should visit more famous tourist destinations such as Thien An Hill, Lang Co Bay, and Lap An Lagoon,… and enjoy delicious dishes here. Hue only eats once and will be remembered forever.

When mentioning Hue, yourvietnam.org probably all think of a quiet, peaceful land with many exciting things. But there are also times when Hue becomes more vibrant, bustling, and passionate in the eyes of tourists. It is the festival in Hue every year when locals eagerly prepare for special traditional activities to welcome spring.

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