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The Spring festival season in Vietnam starts with the Lunar New Year and closes with the celebration
honoring the mythical founding fathers, the Hung Kings, on the tenth day of the third lunar month.
Underlying the origins of these rituals is thefarming cycle and its association with fertility rites and ancestor
worship. Ancestor worship is a belief of wet-rice farmers who keep their ancestors' graves in their village. This
strong attachment to the village of one's birth and the recognition that the inhabitants all descend from the same
ancestral line creates strong bonds. The village festival is based on the spirit of unity and family. The farmers are
the festivals' creators, actors and audience.
Ancient ceremonies related tofarming sometimes take on additional meanings: the commemoration of heroic
deeds and the village heroes' birth or death. Each village in the North of Vietnam has such a heroic or super-human
figure as a tutelary or guardian spirit. The heroes were honored in their own temples and communal houses which
became the heart of the village activities.
There are basic themes which are common to all Spring festivals in the Red River Delta. For instance, water
takes on an essential role. Water is collected and blessed and later used for ritual washing. There are boat races,
fishing contests, snake dances and water puppet performances. In Chem village, in the suburbs of Hanoi on the
banks of the Red River, the main part of the festival actually occurs on a barge carrying over 200 people waving
flags, singing, dancing and chasing a unicorn. The barge sails from the temple out into the middle of the Red River,
while elders in smaller boats fetch three large jars of water to be blessed and used in rituals during the year. The
next day the blessed water is used for the symbolic washing of the wooden statue of the village guardian.
Question 31. According to paragraph 1, how long does the the Spring festival last?
A. one month
B. less than one month
C. more than three months
D. just more than two months
Question 32. With which of the following are the rituals of the festival NOT associated?
C. Festival creators
Question 33. The word "descend" in the passage is closest in meaning to
C. transform
A. Ancestor worship
B. Fertility rites
D. Unity and family spirit
A. improve
B. originate
D. exchange
Question 34. What is stated in paragraph 4 about boat races, fishing contests, snake dances and water puppet
performances?
A. They are very basic activities.
B. They take on an essential role.
C. They are all done on the water.
Question 35. Which of the following is true about the blessed water in the festival of Chem village?
A. It is carried on the barge.
C. It is taken from the village guardian.
D. They take place in Chem village.
B. It used for the ritual of the next day.
D. It helps make wooden statues clean.