The current revivification of communal activities in the socialist Vietnamese society does not simply result from the increased economic capacity of the local people after `doi moi`(renovation), or from the alleviation of the State`s control over the people`s society. I take the revitalization of village rituals in a traditional urban village, LangDai Yen, not as a cultural phenomenon sui genesis, but rather as one kind of collective response of the villagers toward the State`s policies, and a characteristic representation of social differentiation in local community. The ritual events need to be investigated within the context of complex processes of the reproduction of various social relations. Besides, there always lies not only the homogeneity, but also the heterogeneity, behind the remaking processes of the village`s communal events. Among many factors that explain the social differentiation of the people within the village, `aboriginality` is a key factor that gives rise to the demarcation of the groups in the imagined homogeneous community. The origin and the boundary of the `indigenous-ness` identity are ambiguous. However, the identity serves as one of the most powerful elements to distinguish the different status of the villagers. Although the Vietnamese central State might have loosened its power over ideological and cultural matters at some point, a close reading of local interactions reveals that the local State has always kept a constant watch on these matters. Moreover, the campaign for the certification of the dinh(communal house) demonstrated that the State was deliberately and powerfully involved in remaking of local "culture." To approach the very core of the state-society relations, there is need to explain the nature of social differentiation inherent to the local village, which the state`s function to manage and reinvent local people`s tradition can be sustained through. In highlighting of the dynamic interfaces between the villagers and the state at the local level, I examine how these interfaces are dialectically linked to the interaction between different social clusters within the urban `traditional` community. There is mediation space at the everyday level which qualifies Vietnamese state`s dominance of local society.