Thai people in Vietnam have more than 1 million people, mainly living in the northern mountainous provinces such as Lai Chau, Son La, Dien Bien, Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An. For Thai people in many regions, the 25th of the lunar month (lunar calendar) is often considered the last and largest market of the year. People go to the market to buy Tet shopping, then relax for Tet. On the morning of the 27th or 28th, the village patriarch or the village head urges every house to clean the whole village. Evening 29, began to pack banh chung.
Thai people usually pack two types of black and white banh chung. To make black bread, they burn straw, get clean ash and glutinous rice and sift the ash soot and still keep black. Many places do not give onion meat, it falls into the cake because people think that the taste of Tet in banh chung is mainly expressed in the taste of dong leaves and that is also the subject to offer to the ancestors. Achievements have been achieved in the past year.
On the morning of January 30, the houses boiled banh chung and pork. The evening of 30 Tet is the year-end feast, with the presence of relatives, friends, and all night people drink alcohol. On the night of the 30th New Year, the Thai people's regulations never turn off. After the New Year's Eve offering ceremony with fish, meat, cakes, brocade items, silver bars ...
Thai people often have the custom of calling souls. On the evening of the 28th, 29th or 30th of Tet, they meat two chickens, one for ancestor worship and the other used to call souls for everyone in the house. In order to summon the soul, he offered each of them a shirt, bundled one end together, hung it on his shoulders, held a burning stick of wood in his hand, then took it to the village head to call the soul two or three times, then back to the bridge. thang called again. After that, the priest personally ties a black thread into the hands of each family member to exorcise, that thread must be left on its own. If it is broken, the employer is easily sick or has a bad story.
White Tai in Quynh Nhai, Son La even have a shampoo festival on the afternoon of the 30th New Year. All village elders, village chiefs, from old to young, went down to the river to organize a shampooing ceremony. The concept of the Thai people, shampooing is an important opening ceremony of festivals in the year. Entering the new year, everyone in the village has to wash their hair to wash away the hardships, illnesses, the bad luck of the old year, and to send off the disaster, hardship, and disease along the water (rivers, streams). ) go on forever, and pray for the good health of the people, the new year, good things, good business. After shampooing, everyone participated in activities such as longer throw, quick cheek, dance and other folk games. Everyone from the dock to the home began to prepare ancestral death anniversary.
In the morning, a Thai woke up early and scooped up some boiled water for each person to drink some. Women in the house on the first day of the New Year were brought away to map out the fan in the middle of the house. Then people moved out two or three cozy trays, placed on high trays to worship the ancestors of the husband, while the lower trays worship the ancestors of the wife. After all, all the boys in the house let the women eat first, and only once a year on the first day of the New Year (every day, women eat with or after men).
The Tet holiday of Thai people has an indispensable dish, it is fish with grilled dishes, sausages, sour salt or dried water ... The Kinh people abstain from going to each other's house early, but the Thai people are bright on that morning. nuisance to each other to wish each other. They just abstained from throwing dong leaves on the floor, abstaining from the house on the first day of the New Year. The evening of the first day they did thanksgiving. From the afternoon of the first day, young people start going out, and want to go out when they want to go, go to any village to eat and drink in that village, sometimes go through the 10th of Lunar New Year or go to full moon in January.
The traditions of Tet holiday are different, but they all have one thing in common is that in the first days of the new year, people are particularly interested in how to treat neighbors, friends and family members. Everyone is happy, excited, friendly in the warm atmosphere of spring. Everyone is afraid of loudly, they will be "thunderstorm" all year. To celebrate the New Year, even though there are differences in customs, they all meet in the humanistic spirit, in the desire to be full, happy and prosperous.
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