(VOVWORLD) - The A Rieu Car is a sacred festival and the biggest of the Pa Co ethnic group in A Lưới district, Thue Thien-Hue province. The festival tightens unity among villages, families, and friends.

(VOVWORLD) - Sweeping away ghosts from the village is a traditional ritual of the Phu La people, with the wish to have peace, a good harvest, and good luck.

(VOVWORLD) - In the northern province of Lao Cai, the Thu Lao ethnic group has about 1,000 people living mainly in Si Ma Cai and Muong Khuong district. In their daily life and at festivals and ceremonies, they wear traditional clothes which are tailored and embroidered manually. Their clothes have plain colors and designs, and are carefully stitched by hand.

(VOVWORLD) - Ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands have a ritual to give a new-born baby a name when child is 1 to 3 months old, and then hold a ceremony called “blowing the baby’s ears”. The participants blow best wishes and compliments into the baby’s ears and pray to the gods and ancestors to bless and protect the child.

(VOVWORLD) - The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum is inhabited by 6 indigenous ethnic minorities, including the Giẻ Triêng. Clustering mainly in Ngọc Hoi and Dak Glei district, the Gie Trieng have preserved their ancient culture and customs.

(VOVWORLD) - The Forest Worship Festival is a time-honored tradition in the life and folk beliefs of the Nung ethnic minority in Xin Man district, Ha Giang province. The local people believe that the Forest God is a sacred guardian who protects the villagers and blesses them with favorable weather and prosperous business.

(VOVWORLD) - When the rice is about to be harvested, the Tay people in Tuyen Quang province hold a festival celebrating pounded com (young sticky rice). The village is filled with the scent of grilled young sticky rice, the sound of people pounding rice in mortars, and cheerful voices and laughter.

(VOVWORLD) - After transplanting rice seedlings, the Tay and Nung ethnic minority people organize a ceremony to thank the buffalos for helping them plow rice fields. It’s also a special family get-together of the Tay and Nung in the northern provinces of Cao Bang, Bac Kan, and Lang Son.

(VOVWORLD) - The Tay ethnic minority people live mainly in Vietnam’s northern mountain region and the Central Highlands. No matter where they live, the Tay practice similar customs and religious rituals, the most prominent being their full-month ceremony and their longevity ritual.

(VOVWORLD) - The Red Dao women in Cao Bang province wear indigo clothes adorned with colorful embroidered images. Red, the dominant color of their clothes, distinguishes them from other groups. The clothes of Red Dao men, by contrast, are plainer and are mainly black and indigo.