Bat Xat: Black Ha Nhi people holds Khô Già Già festival
From 1 to 3/7 (ie on 13 -15/5 lunar calendar), according to traditional customs, black Ha Nhi people in some upland communes of Bat Xat such as Y Ty, Nam Pung, Trinh Tuong, A Lu bustling organization of Khô Già Già Festival to pray for good crops, healthy villagers, prosperous life.Khô Già Già festival is held in worship area next to park forest where common place of every black Ha Nhi village is. |
Villagers contributed money to buy buffaloes to worship sacrifices. |
First day of Khô Già Già festival, each family performs ancestor worship with participation of all members. |
Fortune distribution to everyone from the elderly to the young to pray for health and peace |
Second day of festival, Ha Nhi women prepare dishes for offerings to ancestors and participate in village's common worshiping ceremony in the park's worship area |
Men represent family brought the tray of offerings to the park to worship. Families in the year with mourning or "bad luck" cannot participate in this ceremony. |
Each offering tray includes many dishes produced by the family, such as beans, peanuts, pumpkin, cucumbers, chicken eggs, rice, wine ... and indispensable buffalo meat. |
Two priests perform ritual at the foot of swinging column, pray for favorable rain and wind, abundant crops, health for villagers with prosperous life. |
Representatives of families take turns to offer offerings of their families to the Deities paying for a prosperous life. |
Then transfer the tray of offerings to park’s worship place and arrange neatly |
After the worshiping ceremony, everyone invited each other to share a cup of wine, talk and exchange village jobs, share production experience, and take care of the family. |