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CUSTOMS OF DOAN NGO FESTIVAL

1. Killing pests and worms
2. Picking herbs to make medicine
3. Wearing five-color amulets
4. Hanging wormwood/cactus
5. Steaming with aromatic leaves
6. Polishing nails
7. Stringing ears for girls
8. Wearing marked shirts
9. Festival greeting - Visiting parents-in-law
10. Passing diseases to trees
11. Prospecting plants

The practice of “killing pests and worms” during Đoan Ngọ

In the popular belief especially in olden times, there are flat worms and parasites in human digestive system. Unless they are killed, these kinds of worms will reproduce quickly and pose a threat to human life. However, getting rid of them is by no means easy and can not be done at our own will at any time. These worms will only rise on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month at which point measures must be taken to eliminate them. People often eat fermented glutinous rice, fruits, pastries like bánh gio to kill worms and become more healthy.


We fruits can provide additional vitamins for enhanced immunity.

I am Fermented Gutinous Rice, and I can drive away parasites!

We bánh gio pastry, consumed on hot summer days, can give you a balanced body.
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FERMENTED GLUTINOUS RICE

In the ancient Thăng Long city, the Fermented glutinous rice of Tó Village was the most famous in the Nhuệ River are (now Tả Thanh Oai Commune, Thanh Trì District).
Ingredients:
- Glutinous rice only rubbed rice husk, not leave rice brain.
- Alcohol yeast made from rice flour and traditional medicine.
Process:
- The rice is clean, drained, and steamed twice (the first time is called the go-to 45’, the second time is called the back 30-35'), let it cool.
- Keep rice with yeast for 3 days. Fermented glutinous rice will be tender, round, plump, secreting a yellow-brown, fragrant and sweet mash liquor. When eating, glutinous rice is scooped into small cups or wrapped in lotus leaves, then sprinkled with mash liquor to eat.

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BANH GIO

Bánh gio (pyramidal cake), also known as bánh ú tro, bánh nẳng, is an indispensable traditional cake of the Đoan Ngọ Festival, it is said to be a product to offer to the King.
The famous bánh gio were from Hạ Mỗ Village (Đan Phượng), Đắc Sở (Hoài Đức), Tây Đình (Vĩnh Phúc), Xuân Lũng (Bắc Ninh), Quảng Yên (Quảng Ninh), Thanh Sơn (Phú Thọ), Yên Lãng (Thanh Hóa)...
Ingredients:
- Glutinous rice; phryniumleaves/ banana leaves
- Tro (ash) water: Herbs producing tro water to deped on the region: grapefruit peel, sesame, mistletoe, castor-oil, bead-tree peel.
The cake is made from glutinous rice soaked with tro water and wrapped by phrynium leaves, banana leaves. However, the difference of cakes among villages is due to the use of different herbs.

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