VOV.VN - Massive crowds across the country attended incense offering ceremonies on April 7 to commemorate the death anniversary of Vietnamese legendary founders, the Hung Kings.

VOV.VN - An annual incense offering festival of the Hai Ba Trung (Trung Sisters) Temple was held on February 9, or the 12th day of the first lunar month, in the border district of Song Ma in the northern mountainous province of Son La, attracting hordes of locals and tourists.

Incense offering ceremonies in tribute to Vietnamese and Lao martyrs were organised at the Laos-Vietnam Combat Alliance Monument in Thoulakhom district, and the monument dedicated to Vietnamese martyrs in Kasy district of Vientiane province on July 26.

Various activities were held in many places around the world to mark the 133rd birth anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh, who is hailed as a brilliant leader, a national liberation hero of Vietnam, a world cultural figure, an exemplary international communist soldier, and a close friend of peace-loving and socially progressive nations worldwide.

VOV.VN - Incense offering rituals took place at the Hung Kings Temple Relic Complex on Nghia Linh Mountain in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 25 in commemoration of the nation’s legendary ancestors, Father Lac Long Quan and Mother Au Co.

VOV.VN - An incense offering ceremony was solemnly held in Da Nang city, central Vietnam, on March 12 to commemorate 65 soldiers who sacrificed their lives 35 years ago to defend Gac Ma (Johnson Reef) of Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

An incense-offering ceremony was held at the top of Nghia Linh Mountain in the northern province of Phu Tho in commemoration of Hung Kings – the legendary founders of the nation – on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival on January 21 (the last day of the last lunar month).

VOV.VN - Incense offering and candle-lighting ceremonies took place across the country on the night of July 26 to mark the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the War Invalids and Martyrs Day, which was first held on July 27, 1947.

VOV.VN - The traditional Xa Tac ritual was re-enacted on the Xa Tac esplanade in the ancient capital of Hue in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on March 16, or the 14th day of the second lunar month.

VOV.VN - Incense sticks and candles have been burned at martyrs’ cemeteries across Dien Bien Phu city of Dien Bien province, a former revolutionary base, in order to commemorate fallen soldiers on Vietnam War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27).