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The Rice Festival is celebrated annually on the 12th day of the seventh lunar month by the B’ru Van Kieu ethnic community to honour the traditional slash-and-burn agriculture. (Photo: bdt.quangbinh.gov.vn)
The three festivals include the Rice Festival of the B’ru Van Kieu ethnic group, the Nang Hai (Miss Hai) Festival of the Tay ethnic community, and the Rija Nagar Folk Dance Festival of the Cham ethnic people.
Accordingly, the Rice Festival will be recreated at 9:30 AM on February 24. The festival is celebrated annually on the 12th day of the seventh lunar month by the B’ru Van Kieu ethnic community, honouring the traditional slash-and-burn agriculture.
The B'ru Van Kieu ethnic people mainly live in villages on the Truong Son range in western central province of Quang Binh, where the climate is extremely harsh, with droughts, floods, and frequent natural disasters. In summer, the sun and wind are dry and hot, burning the skin, while in winter, it is cold and chilly. That's why the Bru-Van Kieu people always have to do nomadic farming, living on nature, mountains, forests, rivers and streams. The main production activities of the people are slash-and-burn farming and rice growing. Every day they dig, burn and cut wood to survive.
The Nang Hai Festival will also be introduced to visitors at 10 AM on February 24. This typical festival is held from the first to the third lunar month every year by the Tay ethnic group in Cao Bang Province to worship the Moon.
This is a typical festival of the Tay ethnic group, the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang, fully demonstrating the traditional spiritual values as well as various types of folk culture of the local Tay ethnic group. Nang Hai Festival, also known as Mother Moon of the Tay people in Cao Bang, is one of the traditional folk festivals, imbued with the traditional beliefs of the ancient Vietnamese people. This festival was created from the daily life and productive labor of mountain farmers.
The Rija Nagar Fork Dance Festival will be reproduced at 10 AM on February 25. The festival is often staged by Cham ethnic people in the transitional period between the dry and the rainy seasons, to pray for favorable weather conditions and bumper crops.
Cham people's life has been associated with agricultural activities and fields for many generations. Therefore, they always yearn for the weather to be favorable, pray to God for rain to fall, and for the land to be lush to have a good harvest.
Rija Nagar Festival is a cultural and religious activity of the Cham people combined with the performing arts of music and dance, making the New Year's atmosphere full of excitement and joy.
In addition to the recreation of the three festivals, the ‘Colour of Spring across the Motherland’s Regions’ programme will include assorted cultural, arts and sporting activities. It will gather 200 people representing 28 ethnic groups from 16 cities and provinces nationwide./.