Keo Pagoda - Spring Festival opens in Thai Binh

\Keo Pagoda hosts two festivals every year: the spring festival and the autumn festival, which are celebrated during the first and the ninth lunar months, respectively, and the latter is held for longer days with a larger scale.

The Keo Pagoda Festival was recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2017, by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

It featured religious rituals and communal activities, such as Buddhist offerings, palanquin parades, love duet singing on boats, and folk games.

In addition to traditional religious rituals commemorating the Ly Dynasty Buddhist monk, the festival also hosted a variety of cultural activities, that reflect the lifestyle of the Red River Delta’s agricultural communities.