The culture in Muong Bi has many unique features, many activities that once attracted a large number of Muong social community to participate, with certain values reflecting the social reality of ancient Muong and contribute to our search. understand the ancient thinking of Muong people. These activities are clearly revealed in holidays and festivals. Here are some typical festivals:
PartI: Society, agricultural feast
1. The council goes down to the field (the season)
A large organization in many places. In Phong Phu commune, the Association organized the meeting in Lý village. That place erected a large wooden temple worshiping Lord Tan, in the harem the temple has a stone statue. The festival takes place from the day of reclaiming (January 7) no later than the first day of the tenth day of the month of the tenth month of the month, Bi Bi, to be organized. The festival is open to the public. He mo on behalf of the commune people, wearing a loose-fitting shirt. wearing a swallow hat to pray for the holy prayers to help Father Tan lush crops. People in the commune operated on a hog to hunt unless they did not perform new operations. Instead of abstaining from buffaloes, they could eat later. People come to the association to bring their own rice balls.
The communal people organized a procession to escort St. Tản from the beach to the temple, accompanied by aqual music. In the wide yard next to the temple, boys and girls threw each other. Teams of buffets (gongs) from your neighbors and muong come to race each other's gongs. Doi Phong team of Phong Phu commune is arranged in order of 6 pieces: 3 small gongs, 3 big gongs: fighting in the way of 3 hours and 1 time.
In the middle of the lawn, there is a pretty big god flag.
At noon, those who are hungry voluntarily go to the shack next to the temple to eat rice. In particular, the commune people have prepared many wine scenes. Drinking alcohol is a healthy hobby that attracts many ages. There, the Uncle Chen has full authority to punish those who do not comply with the drinking laws regardless of whether they are civilians or religious officials.
The council went down to organize in Dich Giao commune in April of the Muong Bi calendar. In the commune, a buffalo meat sacrifices, just to welcome the people of Muong Bi (including 7 communes: Do Nhan, Quy My, Phong Phu, Dich Giao, Tuan Lo, My Hoa, and Phu Vinh) to repair their children. Lo ditch, originating from the Kem stream, flows through the slopes of the Kem hamlet to the Lam hillside. Each person came to work carrying a package of rice. Buffalos have sacrificed after sacrificing the meat divided by the armor. The armor oil split on the nail. After finishing eating, people continued to work until the evening. Each suit carries a gong to fight. Households in 7 communes of Muong Bi without people will be severely punished and arrested.
The ceremony to go down in Dich Giao is a big festival of the whole Muong nature. Mo muong celebrates the first person who made the ditch. According to mo, the person opening the ditch is not the Muong in Muong Bi. People who helped Muong design to open ditches named Ai Ly and Ai Lo. Ai Ly, Ai Lo are Thai people. Because, the Thai people in Muong Bi have experience in making ditches and building fading. The Arabic language means father. Ai Li, Ai Lo means father Ly, father Lo. The fathers helped the muong to build a ditch to get water from the stream Cream to water the whole Hot field created by Khang. Later, that ditch was also called muong Lo. When performing the ceremony, the Muong people give incense to Mr. Ai Ly and Ai Lo, a tray of a boiled duck with the idea of remembering that people like to live near the water environment.
2. Meeting of rain:
In April, during the thunder season, the villagers waited for the water to cultivate, but it still did not rain, the village elders urged their descendants to pray for rain. In My Hoa commune, Dong Chuong people celebrated the ceremony at Tenh lun beach, led by Don hamlet, with a white chicken meat. That place has gushed water from the mountain, from the old people worshiped ghost water. They thought that the sleeping ghost did not hear the thunder, so he did not wake up to get water for the people to harvest. They also have eggs and rice because they think they eat them. After the ceremony, the people gathered together to take them and threw them into shallow puddles to wake up the ghosts. Everyone cheered loudly. Many people carried guns to shoot into the sky. Two neighbors Don and Chuong also marched the battlefield, Chuong was the enemy. Two fake neighbors fighting. The celebrant of the Don village prayed to the king to cause rain to clear the enemy.
3. Washing ceremony of rice leaves:
This ceremony is held in the standing rice period, around July and August. Families weave bamboo baskets with 6 chicken feathers around and place them at the top of the field, making many sticks over 1m high, the tops with diagonal plugs faked chicken feathers as plugs in the field. Many families even let children get chicken feathers around the edge of the field. Trays also presented many bowls of chicken porridge brought to the top of the field so that he could read the prayers to pray for less pest and diseases. Word tells about prehistoric times, the day when the land didn't have rice for people to eat. The Easy King sent the animals to find. Then the mouse came up to meet Mrs. Chu muong in the sky and asked for the red rice seed, 40 rice fields and 30 upland rice varieties. So the seeds of mice are free to come and eat. Ms. Chu muong gave seed and taught how to grow rice. Paddy field to sow. The paddy field must be soaked in water before it can be sprouted to germinate. The song also describes many people who have been involved in farming since ancient times in the development history of Muong Bi people. For example, in Dich Giao commune, the ceremony of washing leaves to commemorate the people who opened the land is said to be Mr. Ó, Bà Ó, Rạng, and Rạng.
4. New rice ceremony:
After a harvest season, before the new rice is eaten, Muong Bi people have a custom of making New Year's rice to worship ancestors. Muong people do not worship their parents 'anniversaries, the tribute to their parents' births and unions are combined on the days of making dances, celebrating holidays. The new rice ceremony is organized by each family, apart from inviting family members to invite others. In the past, people used to do little work for most of the cultivated rice varieties in the crop. The new rice ceremony was held in October. Before preparing the food to celebrate the agricultural products they made, they brought some food for the dog, the buffalo, and implied: The pets in the house shared joy with the people. In Phong Phu commune, Lo market area, on the occasion of the new rice festival, the lang is organized quite large, with making banh chung and catching fish in Pai Ai to worship rice.
Some houses in the area have a custom of selecting a few long-grown upland rice plants with both roots and cotton hanging next to the stove to keep the rice.
Part II: Festival of folk beliefs
1 / Mu masking ceremony:
On the occasion of coming to any stilt house of Muong Bi people, when looking up at the roof of the house, they will see baskets of fox eyes and bamboo material on top of the group. Mu mask (masquerading as a mask holder). How many masks she has is so many children.
Mu masks are held after 1 week after the child is born. The owner slaughtered the chickens and worshiped the child, at the same time making a mask of the midwife with a cane tip, a pair of cotton chopsticks, the Muong Bi people thought that the child was held by a midwife in the sky. Making a mask is a house for her to know her whereabouts, sometimes she returns to care for her owner less sick, quickly eat well.
Mask for each person in the house until old age. When sick, sick, elderly people hold rituals to hold a bond (called as a mu mu). Mask for old people and grandchildren to put in a piece of cloth called adding numbers, adding skewers through an egg. In addition, a few more branches of si tree leaves and silk thread to cover her mask. Folk said that the house of dwellers at the root of an ac tree just because the tree was fallen was so bad that it was necessary to make a tree pulling up the tree's health to return to normal. Masked with a coil is therefore.
The making of a mask for the legend is explained as follows: the midwife was in the sky, when she came to the earth, she had to pass through a stream, she used sugarcane to build a bridge, wiped it as a support stick and built a house to live in. Mu masks are meant to symbolize the foregoing.
The mo came to call her down on the moon. Today, there is a mortar pounding to the side when needed mortar mortar to ward off bad ghosts.
2. Praying ceremony:
Once certain villages of Muong Bi people were burned, the villagers said that because the hot land was so hot, they had to pray for cool prayers. After worshiping and praying, the Muong people will choose an old farmer to bring the buffalo to plow a way around the village and people will pour water into the plow. Word mo in the ceremony for all four gods: heaven-earth-water-fire support the village peacefully, coolly.
3. Fire burning ceremony:
The homeowner who built a new house when setting up the kitchen columns always had a ceremony to take a piece of bananas to cut three fish shaped into a cork tied to the kitchen pole. The village patriarch said it was possible to help family members avoid fires. The three fish are for the three grandparents to eat. And in the kitchen column, they put a pale green pumpkin. Before cooking at the new home, the homeowner performed a fire and prayed for the kitchen to put three vegetable heads and a stone to hold the host. In addition, take the bark off the kitchen four corners and keep the kitchen. Fire is lucky now. Unfortunately, off the kitchen god has a long way to go. The fire of the kitchen set fire to the house, we ate a bowl of rice, an egg, then he sent his children and grandchildren into the mat for him to lie down on the floor until early morning to wake up and call his children to get up to eat. Sometimes he just faked a little sleep and then woke up saying: "It's morning, sleep well last night."
That night in a new home, in the light of the kitchen fire, the homeowners invited everyone to enjoy a drink of sparkling wine. The owner also scattered the roasted grain for the children to pick up and eat boiled snail baskets for the women to dance and talk.
4. Ke Ke Pagoda Association:
Is a big guild. Every year, held on February 16 of the lunar calendar, attracts people from several communes in the upper part of Muong Bi to attend. The roof of the pagoda is said to have a rock called a rising hibiscus. The temple does not have a monk. People on the self-sphere have a prompt: Amitabha Buddha. The main attraction of the Ke pagoda festival is the forms of cultural activities. There, every year, there was a fun throwing event for boys and girls at the door of the Buddha. There is a spinning ground for children aged 10 to 18. There are exam shooting and shooting range sites. Whoever hits the target is rewarded with a drink of wine. In any given season, the Buddhist buffalo festival organizes the joy of blowing a trumpet, a Turtle. Attendees at all types of people, of all ages. Fathers enjoy the scenery around the wine. The bureaucratic son, the rich man, showed off the 7 to 9-long muskets and showed off his skills in shooting together. Ordinary boys and girls are intoxicated with the left fruit and their pickles are picky and sharpened. The ladies, they show off their new dresses, showing off their embroidery skills.
This is a great temple festival that has gone into the memory of many people in upper Muong Bi
As above, we have led to the festivals, typical ceremonies of the Bi region, so to speak, in the past, the rituals bearing the love in this region were unknown. Concluding in the memory of the elderly there are three major ceremonies called a little festive. The council who went to repair the Lo ditch in Dich Giao purely took a large number of seven valley communes as the foundation for the association, so there was a lack of festive atmosphere. If the procession of the Holy Tản procession took place in Phong Phú commune, eliminating the natural joys of the custom of drinking wine, whichever house in Mường Bi would take place, the action of the festival appeared faintly through the paths still flying back and forth in front of the temple. Although the Chu Ke Association in Phu Vinh commune is rich in fun but improvisation, it has not had an organization scale so it is not typical for an association of the whole Muong.
On the contrary, the clear engraving in the cultural life of Muong Bi people is towards the ceremony, agricultural rituals or beliefs, customary worship, shrunk in a family (new rice festival, making statues, building houses ...) or widening in a hamlet, a small muong (praying for rain - praying for cool ...) - In those days, people accept a dignified form, set as a precedent rather than an expression, the display of the individual's talents in front of nature and man in order to guide people to the beauty of the art that any society must take place. That, Europe also partly reflects the profound, moderate, humble lifestyle towards the inner depth of Muong Bi's people. That is an assumption.
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