Ritual rituals: When a child is born a month, they make a naming ceremony, and at the same time the naming ceremony is renaming parents (the first child), usually people only append middle name to old name. For example, the name of a man is Tent, when the first child is used, the middle name may be Chu (Tswv), Growing (Txooj), Tràng (Txiaj), ... In the naming ceremony, people meat many chickens to worship their ancestors, inform their ancestors of the new family member's name, and at the same time report the new names of the parents, the new name will be associated with the other half of the child's life. Man, the child's mother's name is called by her husband's name. If there is a name for the ancestors, after announcing the news, the ancestors will receive the ghost of the dead.
The taboos (beliefs) in childbirth and parenting: Mong people often give birth at home and sit down, midwives are mothers-in-law or female relatives in the family who have experience in childbirth and support to lay. It is not allowed to rub a child's head because the concept of his soul is at the top of his head. During the month of stay, a woman cannot enter another person's house because she thinks that it is bad luck to bring to other people's families.
If children are stunted, not big, sick, it is thought that it is a child who has been hit by evil spirits or negligent in ancestor worship, thus being sick by ancestors, they will perform ancestor worship ceremony. Gods to expel evil spirits and to redeem their ancestors. During the worshiping ceremony, people call their ancestors back, ask their health, ask if there is any problem, their descendants will atone for their ancestors, or ask their ancestors to remove ghosts, chase away evil spirits ...
When it is time to get married, if a son likes a girl, if he wants to get married, parents will see if the number for both viewers is suitable, there are many ways to fortune-tell the number of people, if In harmony, the son often takes his wife back (a belief in human destiny, influenced by long-standing Chinese culture). The ritual of drawing the wife has been mentioned by many studies. When leading the daughter through the ghost gate, the parents-in-law had to make the rooster scratch the girl's back, scratching from head to toe, that was the ritual of entering the husband's ghost, after that ritual the daughter had entered the ghost. The husband's family, completely husband and will be protected by the husband's ghost. After taking the bride home, one must perform a ritual to inform the ancestor of the new daughter-in-law, name and age. To choose the wedding day, there is a ceremony to choose.
In life, if you feel insecure or worry about something, lose your appetite, lose sleep ... they think that it is being lost or lost, people will not hesitate to catch chickens. ancestors, gods to call souls for that person. Sometimes people perform rituals for the whole family, the number of members in the family is the meat of many chickens.
Mong people do not have the custom to celebrate longevity for older people like the Tay and Nung people.
When old people die, the Mong people have a custom of making offerings to the dead. When someone dies, people use guns to shoot three times into the sky to signal the death of the house, then perform funeral procedures for the dead. The first is to change clothes for the dead, clothes used for shroud must be clothes made from linen, the Mong people believe that if not clothes made of linen, their ancestors would not accept ghosts of the dead ( linen, linen clothes are a long-standing tradition of the Mong people), then put the dead in a coffin.
During the funeral, one drum or one person or two people were played to play the trumpets, to play the trumpets and dance all night, besides a group of about a dozen people who played trumpets and wore aprons around the house. while dancing and playing the trumpet. Because the concept of the dead spirit has to go back to meet the ancestors, people do a ritual to show the ghosts to go back to the ancestors, the prayers show the way the ghost has to go through clearly, the ghost must follow. What, say what to convince the ghosts, the gods to get back to the ancestors. When the elderly die, the descendants have to give buffalo meat to their parents, to show filial piety, the children have to dissect as many cattle as possible for their parents.
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