The village festival is based (6)_____  the spirit of unity and family. The farmers are the festivals' creators, actors and audience.

The heroes were honoured in their own (10)______  and communal houses which became the heart of the village activities.

Each village in the North of Vietnam has (9)_____ a heroic or super-human figure as a tutelary or guardian spirit.

Ancient ceremonies related to farming sometimes take on additional meanings the commemoration of heroic deeds and the village heroes’ (8)______ or death.

Ancient ceremonies (7)______ to farming sometimes take on additional meanings the commemoration of heroic deeds

This strong attachment to the village of ones birth and the recognition that the (5)______  all descend from the same ancestral line creates strong bonds.

Ancestor worship is a (4)_____ of wet-rice farmers who keep their ancestors' graves in their village.