About 400 years ago, An Hoa village was a famous and bustling port town of Nuoc Man. Chinese people from Guangdong and Fujian migrated to open a trading town. The Nuoc Man festival was born and held at Ba Pagoda, marking the prosperous period of a port town in the border area, and expressing the spirit of Vietnamese-Chinese cultural fusion when the Dai Viet border had just reached Da Bia Mountain (Deo Ca - Phu Yen), and thus maintained, developed, and rose and fell with the rhythm of life of this port town.
To this day, although the port town has declined and transformed into a quiet countryside, Ba Pagoda still exists, and the Nuoc Man festival remains as a memory of a commercial port town that was once the commercial and cultural center of Binh Dinh, a symbol of friendship with the Vietnamese people who built Ong Pagoda (Quan Thanh De Temple) and Ba Pagoda (Thien Hau Temple) to worship. Ba Pagoda is the place to worship Thien Hau Thanh Mau - a legendary figure who often saves ships in distress. The Chinese custom of worshipping Thien Hau combined with the Vietnamese custom of worshipping Mau is the soul of the Salt Water Festival. The special thing about the festival is that people here light lanterns on holidays, every house prepares food and drinks in the house to welcome visitors to the festival and consider this as the second Tet of the year.
The Ba Pagoda Festival attracts a large number of people and tourists to worship on the occasion of the festival.
This year the festival is held from February 27, 2025 to March 1, 2025 ( January 30 to February 2, At Ty year ).
This year the festival will include the main activities: