Perfume Pagoda Festival, Viet Nam
Vietnam East Sea Park, Da NangThe Perfume Pagoda Festival is a popular cultural and religious event held annually in Vietnam. It takes place at the Perfume Pagoda, also known as Huong Pagoda, which is located […]
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Shwe Maw Daw Pagoda Festival, Myanmar
This pagoda festival is held in April in Bago. Every year, dancers and theatre troupes gather and perform in this festival to please the Festival Organisers in order to receive bookings from agents that want them to perform in future festivals. The performers make new and beautiful costumes out of the money received in advance […]
March Street Festival in Yunnan, China
The March Street Festival, also known as Guanyin Fair, is one of the most magnificent festivals of the Bai Ethnic Group in Dali, Yunnan. It is held every year from 15 to 21 of the Third Lunar Month (usually in April). Legend has it that Guanyin Bodhisattva defeated the evil Rakshasa. Since then, the Bai […]
Wa Face-smearing Festival, China
Yunnan Dali, YunnanThe Wa people call it Moh Nin Hei - the Festival of Solidarity - but when translated phonetically into Chinese, it becomes the 'Face-Smearing Festival' (Mo Ni Hei). By pure coincidence, that's exactly what this rambunctious day is all about. During the carnival, revellers smear each other with a special kind of mud mixed with […]
Wood Drum Festival of Wa People at Ximeng, China
Wa people used to be hunters roaming over Yunnan's forested mountains, and the wood drum they worship now was probably used to intimidate dangerous animals by its thunderous clang. Almost every Wa village has such a drum, which is carved out of a big log, and on their Wood Drum Festival (Mugujie) every year, people […]
Lixia Festival at Fuxian Lake, China
Yunnan Dali, YunnanA crystal-clear alpine lake wedged between Kunming and Yuxi, Fuxian Lake (Fuxian Hu) is best-known for the huge amount of Cambrian fossils discovered there, but average travellers can head for the lake on May 10th in the name of Lixia, or the Advent of Summer. A traditional festival once involving a sacrifice to the lake's […]
Bodhi Tree Watering Festival, Myanmar
During the summer month of May, pilgrims gather at pagodas and temples throughout the country to water the sacred Bodhi Trees. It is said that Lord Buddha gained enlightenment when he was resting under a Bodhi tree. When the religion spread across the world, Bodhi trees were planted in monasteries all over the world by […]
Hung Temple Festival, Viet Nam
Hung Temple Phu Tho, Viet NamOn the tenth day of the third lunar month, Vietnamese gather at the Hung Temple at Nghia Linh Mountain in Phu Tho Province to honor the legendary Hung Kings. Rulers of the Hong Bang era in Viet Nam’s mythic past, the Hung Kings helped develop a fine material culture of bronze and pottery, and also […]
His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath King Norodom Sihamoni’s Birthday, Cambodia
His Majesty Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneath King Norodom Sihamoni's Birthday. This significant day marks the birth of Cambodia's revered monarch, born on 14 May 1953. Photo by pressocm.gov.kh
Prince Festival of Bai People at Shaxi, China
China Benzhu Temple, Yunnan, ChinaThanks to influence from Tibet and India, Bai people generally embrace Buddhism. At Shaxi , on the 8th day of the 2nd lunar month, they will observe the Prince Festival in honor of Gautama forsaking his princehood for faith. Two statues of Gautama, one as prince and one as Buddha, will be carried by costumed […]
