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This ceremony is organized regularly every year in Phu Yen coastal areas belonging to the Song Cau district, Tuy An district, Tuy Hoa district and Tuy Hoa town – where most of the inhabitants live on fishery, the ceremonies are held in lunar March when fishermen are preparing for the main fishing season in a year. The purpose of the ceremony is to offer sacrifices to the local ancient sages and the God of the Ocean, praying for the calm, quiet sea and the boats full of fish.

There are always two parts in this ceremony, the ceremony and the festival. The ceremony is held with many serious and solemn rites at the temple of the village, commune like: food – offering ceremony, oration – reading ceremony, sacred dancing styles, songs for fishing (Ba Trao singing) . . . The festival is the reception, classical and traditional folk games. The nature of the fish – praying ceremony is that it is the place for the local people to meet, talk, and participate in many cultural activities. The ceremony attracts not only people in the neighbourhoods but also people from afar.
 

Tourists on their ways to the South or to the North, arriving at the area of Tuy An district, Phu Yen province standing on the top of Quan Cau pass or those travelling by trains through the country can enjoy the beauty of a National Vestige of Landscape with the name Black Dragon lagoon. Every year, on lunar January 7th in the spring atmosphere, people in the local area and from many other places in the province come here for the festival.

The festival is of traditional cultural features, organized with many exciting, varied activities such as: boat racing, net – throwing for fishing, basket - boat shaking, swimming, dancing, classical theatre, wrestling . . . happening in the echoes of many kinds of ethnic musical instruments: drums, bugles, one – stringed musical instrument . . . The festival also expresses the private features of the inhabitants in Tuy An coastal areas with concepts like: religious beliefs, worshipping the gods in the local area: The Sea God, the Lagoon God, the River God . . . wishing for all the activities of cultivation, livestock breeding, fishing to be successful in a new year. The annual festival only takes place in one day but attracts thousands of people inside and outside the province.
 

Every year on lunar January 6th , when spring sunshine is overwhelming all the deep blue mountains and forests, in An Xuan commune (Tuy An district), people are busily preparing for the Traditional Horse – Racing Festival. The festival is to remind the martial spirit of a land, expressing the indomitable will and the extraordinary strength of man before the imposing nature.

The racing field is an area of large, smooth grassland and on the horsebacks are imposing, tidy young men. After a horn roll informing the start, the horse riders speed their horses forward fearlessly in the bustling noise of drums and encourageous cheerings of the spectators echoing throughout the mountains and forests. Those days of gay festival in An Xuan commune have created an original cultural feature of its own. We would like to invite you to come here once on a spring occasion to explore this cultural land.