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Tay minority people in Tuyen Quang celebrate spring festival
Updated: 17:26, 30/01/2023
The Long Tong (going to the field) Festival opened in Chiem Hoa district of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang on January 29 after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Celebrated annually by Tay ethnic minority people in the province on the eighth day of the new lunar year, it is a religious ritual dedicated to the god of agriculture to win his blessing for verdant crops and prosperity for villagers throughout the year.
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Tay minority people in Tuyen Quang celebrate spring festival. |
It consists of an offering ritual, a ploughing ceremony and folk games.
Long Tong is the most typical festival of the Tay, an ethnic minority group living in the northern mountain region with a population of over 1.6 million.
The festival was named national intangible cultural heritage in 2013.
A festival of traditional costumes of ethnic minority groups in Vietnam’s northern region officially opened at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism, in Son Tay District on the outskirts of Hanoi on November 18. Bac Giang province won one A prize, one B prize and one C prize.
Every year in the tenth lunar month, the Cong ethnic community in La Cha village, Pa Tan commune, Nam Po district, in the northern province of Dien Bien, joyfully celebrate their traditional cockscomb flower festival.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan has stressed that the Party and State always pay special care to ethnic minority groups and ethnic affairs, with many policies having been promulgated to promote the role of ethnic groups in society.
The Quang Binh provincial People’s Committee has licensed Oxalis Co. Ltd., to pilot a tour of the Ruc ethnic people’s villages in Tan Hoa commune, Minh Hoa district, during the rainy season starting from November 1 this year.
(BGO) – On October 25, the Ethnic Board in Bac Giang
province held a ceremony to honor the outstanding invididuals in ethnic
minority groups and mountainous areas in 2022 with Chairman of provincial
People’s Committee (PPC) Le Anh Duong in attendance.
Source: VNA
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