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“Quan Thanh Mieu” is a small temple for the worship of Guan Di in Truon Village, Hoa Loi Commune, Chau Thanh County, Tra Vinh Province in Vietnam. July 15 on the lunar calendar is the Hungry Ghost Festival. A small vegetarian banquet is prepared. The acculturation of Chinese immigrants is found in the festival. The Chinese descendants who manage Quan Thanh Mieu in Truon Village today cannot speak Chinese, even though their grandfathers or fathers were Chinese. They have adapted to the Khmer culture of their grandmothers or mothers. The women who prepared the vegetarian meal for the Hungry Ghost Festival at the temple cooked the Vietnamese-styled “Banh tet” and the Khmer-styled “Xiem lo.” The appearance of the temple building and the composition of the gods and tablets of Quan Thanh Mieu still maintain traits of Chinese culture. However, the Vietnamese and Khmer cultures from the domestic sphere, of which women are in charge, are very important for the festival at the temple. In addition to pressure from majority groups in the rural area of Chau Thanh, the everyday practices in the private sphere of intermarried families in this area urge the ethnic Chinese to adopt the Vietnamese and Khmer cultures.
