Referring to the special festival of ethnic groups living in this land, people often refer to the cages of the Tay and Nung people, the acute festival of the Dao people, the Gou Tao festival of the Mong people or fire festival of Pa Cardn people ...
Maybe the festivals of highlanders in Ha Giang are not as large as those in lowland areas but with their original values, it has created its own unique and unique characteristics.
With a relatively large population, widely distributed throughout the province, the Tày and Nung people are known for the Cồng Tồng festival, meaning the festival goes down to the field. Every year in the spring, people organize offerings on a certain field before the village. Each family will bring a tray including: meat, wine, cakes, sticky rice with five colors to give heaven and earth. The prayers will pray to the heaven and earth for favorable rain and wind to let people do business smoothly, good crops. After the ceremony, people organized many games for everyone to participate in such as Tung Tung, Oats, Spinning, Tug, Singing and Repeating ...
In recent years, people inside and outside the province have often known about the cage festival of the Tày people in Dao Duc commune, Vi Xuyen district. On the full moon day of January, after the incense burning ceremony of Sung Khanh Pagoda, people here rejoice in the cage festival at the foot of the hill in front of Sung Khanh Pagoda. With the unique cultural features, the caged festival of the people here is increasingly attracting tourists from inside and outside the province to attend.
For the Mong people, the Gudou festival (gruôv taov) - which means the hill and spring mountain festival - is considered the most typical. For the Mong people, when the couple has been married for a long time without a son, the family will invite the priest to pray to the heavens and the gods and promise that if they have a son, they will organize a festival for all. spring happy people.
The festival is usually held after the second day of Tet, lasting 1 to 3 days on relatively flat hills, convenient for travel. On the opening day, in addition to preparing gifts performed by the owner, all procedures are carried out by the teacher. After the worshiping ceremony, heaven and earth gave the children and the health of the worshiper, the representatives of the guests attended the meeting to wish the homeowners, the villagers peace, prosperity. The opening ceremony was a paul dance, followed by a scene of singing by a boss (a prestigious elder in the village) and a few old men singing the lyrics. At the end of the ceremony, the festival took place very lively throughout the wide hill. This place is a crossbow shooting competition, tickling, there is a group of boys and girls playing bird nests, throwing pao, singing bucket plenh ... The most special is the Khau dance competition, people perform the Khèn dance on the pile , the high-pitched players also make quite dangerous moves such as bending over a horizontal burden on the pan to win ... The games took place extremely exciting although the prize for the winner is just a bottle of corn wine . End of association, worshipers and homeowners do the tree-planting ceremony. If the tree trunk is brought to make the bed for the owner, the beam of humanoid paper hanging on the top of the tree if brought to hang in the chamber, the wine bottle is poured out in 4 directions ... The festival ends but the people still play spring till the end Full moon in January embarked on production labor.
The Gao Tao festival presents almost all types of folklore of the Mong people. Therefore, the functional departments of Ha Giang are gradually restoring this festival for the people in the spring.
If the Tay or Nung caged festival or the Gao Tao festival of the Mong people, the festival is relatively bold, with the acute festival of the Dao people focus mainly on rituals, so the festival somewhat faint.
The Dao people are not only famous for their industrious and hard-working virtues, so their economic development is quite stable but also because they have preserved and preserved almost intact the traditional values of their people. One of those values is the acute ceremony - an important ritual indispensable in the life of a Dao man. Dao people believe that if they are not granted an identity, their advanced age is still considered to be immature but if their age is small, they have been ordained to be recognized by the community as an adult man. participate in the work of the lineages, villages ...
Sacrifice ceremony has many rituals such as: Ceremony of the lamp, the tree holding the lamp, the ceremony of lowering the lamp, the ceremony of giving troops, the ceremony to present the Jade Emperor, the ceremony of identity, the thanksgiving ceremony for the ancestral ghosts and the gods ... Xen There are many ritual dances of the Dao people.
The Dao people have many different groups, living in different regions so the way to organize the Sac ceremony also has different points. But in terms of content, the meaning is the same, the commandments recorded in the document of identity for the beneficiaries are directed toward good, absolutely forbidden to do evil. It is respect for teachers, appreciation for the meaning of birth of parents, loyalty to friends, respect, selflessness, non-betrayal, deception, lust ... These teachings are done by The oath under the witness of the gods, the heavens, the ancestors and the community should have great educational value. The offerings in each ritual have great historical value. Therefore, every time participating in the ceremony, the community can hear back the origin and origin of their nation, create national pride, remember the merit of their fathers to live in a way worthy of the tradition. Nice system.
From the collected works, practical research shows that the acute ceremony of the Dao people is a treasure of traditional culture with great educational and artistic values, a typical cultural feature in life. live the spirit of the people.
Speaking of the unique festivals of this land, it is impossible not to mention the fire festival of the Pa Cardn. The Pa Cardn has many festivals in a year, but the most notable is the fire dance. After Tet holiday, the Pa Then people often organize a fire dance for everyone to have fun. This festival with many rituals with mysterious colors such as after the priest finishes the ceremony, which means to call the ghosts to join the young men - usually about 12 healthy young people - then they can dance on hot coals, even some people even pick hot coals into their mouths ... For Pa Cardn people, jumping fire is a community-based custom, an opportunity for everyone to have fun and relax together.
Above are just a few typical festivals of a small number of ethnic groups living in Ha Giang. In fact, every nation has its own system of festivals. However, with typical living conditions of ethnic minorities, festivals of ethnic groups usually take place within a modest range of their villages. Not only that, there are many festivals of the people because many objective reasons have not been held for a long time. Therefore, in order to preserve and preserve traditional values, in recent years, Ha Giang has made great efforts in researching, collecting, and restoring festivals in some peoples. clan. However, this figure is still quite modest, in fact, there are still many excellent festivals of the people that need to be restored, preserved and introduced because it preserves almost all traditional cultural values of the nation. there.
Researching, collecting and restoring special festivals of ethnic groups not only contribute to preserving the national cultural identity as advocated by the Party and the State, but also help to honor the national pride for Young generation - the future of this land.
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