Vietnamese people in the old days put up tall bamboo poles with red garment strips hanging from them during Tet, believing that poles prevented ghosts and monsters from entering the community during the holiday. The tradition of raising the Neu (or Tet) pole remains alive today in many villages and homes around the country.

Located on the Red river bank in Moc Nam commune, Duy Tien township, the traditional silk village of Nha Xa has become a famous tourist attraction in Ha Nam province with its well-known plain and jacquard mulberry silk products.

The San Diu, which lives in northern mountainous areas with a population of nearly 147,000, celebrates quite a lot of festivals the most important of which is Tet, the lunar New Year festival.

Located about 15 kilometers to the south of the capital city of Hanoi, Ha Thai lacquer craft village in Duyen Thai commune, Thuong Tin district, has become a tourist attraction with well-known lacquer products handcrafted from not only traditional materials like wood, bamboo and ceramics, but also new ones such as plastics, composites and steel.

As soon as a tourist enters Quat Dong traditional hand embroidery craft village in the same name commune or its surrounding areas in Thuong Tin district, he will find through windows and doors many people busily engaged indoors with hand embroidery.

The most unique feature that distinguishes water puppetry from other genres of puppetry is the stage where the performance takes place. For water puppetry, the stage, called thuy dinh, is set up in a waist-deep pool. Puppeteers stand in the pool behind a curtain and control puppets through a stick-and-string apparatus.

Located on the side of Truc Bach Lake in an area which is now Ngu Xa street in the west of Hanoi, traditional Ngu Xa bronze casting village is well-known for traditional monolithic hollow bronze casting and coloring methods.

As soon as a visitor sets foot in Kim Bong traditional carpentry village in the central province of Quang Nam, he will immediately hear the sounds of wood chiseling, cutting and drilling echoing from every corner of the village.

Located in the commune of the same name of Bac Ninh province’s Gia Binh district, some 35 kilometers from Hanoi, the Xuan Lai traditional bamboo craft village has been famous for its unique smoked bamboo products, particularly rustic, soulful paintings.

Located in Phu Nghia commune, Chuong My district, 27 kilometers to the southwest of Hanoi, the Phu Vinh bamboo and rattan weaving craft village is dubbed “the land of rattan” for its well-known handcraft decorative and utility products.