{"id":9520,"date":"2018-07-07T04:04:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/?p=9520"},"modified":"2018-10-18T11:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T03:02:13","slug":"knanh-ha-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/knanh-ha-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Knanh Ha Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?resize=854%2C536&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"536\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?w=854&amp;ssl=1 854w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?resize=130%2C82&amp;ssl=1 130w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> On our arrival in Hanoi on 26 May 2018, we were in time for the Ball Mud Wrestling (Khanh Ha) competition in a Vietnamese village, Van Ha, Bac Giang Province.<br \/>\nThe khanh Ha Festival held every two years in this village.<br \/>\nAgainst one another, the two eight-unmarried man teams attempting to score a  \u201cgoal \u201c by carrying a 20 kg wooden ball to the opponent\u2019s muddy pitch.<br \/>\nThe festival celebrates victory of two brothers who defeated group of demons in mud ball game in a marsh. The game has attracted hundreds of spectator to enjoy the excitement .  Senior villagers organize the game on the ground in front of the gods\u2019 temple. The game was once held during the rainy season in the abundant mud puddles. It is also a time for locals to pray for good weather and bumper crops, and thus considered a tradition of the wet rice culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395-130x82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"82\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-9521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?resize=130%2C82&amp;ssl=1 130w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?resize=768%2C482&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/20180526-A7RII-0395.jpg?w=854&amp;ssl=1 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,66,3,49,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decisive-moment","category-original-archived","category-photo-travel","category-sony-alpha-7r2","category-vietnam","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prB36-2ty","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9520"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9854,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9520\/revisions\/9854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elcreations.org\/lipsengtan\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}