Nearly one million visitors came to pay tribute to Hung Kings and other ancestors who founded the country at the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site in the northern province of Phu Tho during the 2018 Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
The Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese people in Laos offered incense to heroic martyrs at the Laos-Vietnam Fighting Alliance monument in Keun village of Thoulakhom district, Laos’s Vientiane province, on July 23.
A ceremony celebrating the 2,561st birth anniversary of Buddha took place in Ho Chi Minh City on May 10, attracting thousands of Buddhist dignitaries, monks, nuns and leaders of local agencies.
A solemn flower and incense offering ceremony was held in Hanoi on April 25 to commemorate the 100th birthday of General Van Tien Dung, an excellent commander of the country.
Viet Tri city in the northern province of Phu Tho, home to the Hung Kings Temple Relic Site, held an incense offering ceremony at the site on March 31, ahead of the annual Hung Kings Temple Festival.
President Tran Dai Quang offered incense and released birds at a spring ceremony held in the ancient Thang Long Imperial Citadel in Hanoi on the ninth day of the first lunar month (February 5).
A delegation of leaders from HCM City led by Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Dinh La Thang on April 29 offered incense at the City Martyrs Cemetery and Lac Canh Cemetery.
An incense offering ceremony to commemorate late Vietnamese Kings was held at the Kinh Thien Palace in the Thang Long Royal Citadel on February 16 or the ninth day of the first lunar month.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong offered incense to late President Ho Chi Minh at Da Chong (K9) historical relic site in Hanoi’s outlying Ba Vi district on February 11.
The Con Son - Kiep Bac Autumn Festival commenced in the northern province of Hai Duong on September 29 in memory of General Tran Hung Dao, one of the most revered figures in Vietnam’s history.
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