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 Yen Sao Festival: November 3 (lunar October 6)
 Ok om bok Festival: November 12 (lunar October 15)
 Ke Khau Village Festival: November 13-15 ( lunar October 16-18)
 Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival: November 15-16 (lunar October 18-19)
 Nhi Khe Village’s Festival: November 22 (lunar October 25)
 Kate Festival: July (Cham calendar, around early October of solar calendar)
 Thang Festival: October 5-8 (lunar September 7-10)
 Ha Dong Festival: October 7-13 (lunar September 9-15)
 Keo Pagoda Festival: October 11-13 (lunar September 13-15)
 Va Temple Festival: October 13 (lunar September 15)
 Co Le pagoda festival: October 13-18 (lunar September 15-20)
 Lang Ong Festival: August 31 (lunar August 1)
 Cua Ong Temple Festival: September 2 (lunar August 3)
 Do Son Buffalo fighting festival: September 8-9 (lunar August 9-10)
 Mid-autumn Festival: September 14 (lunar August 15)
 Kiep Bac Festival: September 14-19 (lunar August 15-20)
 Con Son Festival: September 15-19 (lunar August 16-20)
 Nguyen Trai Temple Festival: September 15 (lunar August 16)
.:::. Major Festivals in November 2008
Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival: November 15-16 (lunar October 18-19)

Time: November 15-16 (lunar October 18-19)

Place: Long Kien Commune, Cho Moi District, An Giang Province

Feature: Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival is held annually to honour Nguyen Trung Truc (1837-1868), the leader of the anti-French Colonialists Uprisings in Southern Vietnam.

A week before the festival, hundreds of people pour to the temple to do the cleaning, tent erecting and building stoves for rice cooking in preparation for the death anniversary of the patriot.

In the festival, people hold a worshiping ceremony and reproduce the fighting in which the French Ship Hope was sunk on the Nhat Tao River. Other activities such as chess playing and boat race are also held.

A few days after the death anniversary, people spare a place in the temple to serve vegetarians with free meals. The serving time lasts from 3 am to 12 pm. 

The rice and food donated by the festival participants are then distributed to the needy.

: :   Published stories
.:. Yen Sao Festival: November 3 (lunar October 6)
.:. Ok om bok Festival: November 12 (lunar October 15)
.:. Ke Khau Village Festival: November 13-15 ( lunar October 16-18)
.:. Nhi Khe Village’s Festival: November 22 (lunar October 25)
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