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. |
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| Villagers contributed money to buy buffaloes to worship sacrifices. |
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| First day of Khô Già Già festival, each family performs ancestor worship with participation of all members. |
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| Fortune distribution to everyone from the elderly to the young to pray for health and peace |
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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 |
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| 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. |
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| Each offering tray includes many dishes produced by the family, such as beans, peanuts, pumpkin, cucumbers, chicken eggs, rice, wine ... and indispensable buffalo meat. |
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| Two priests perform ritual at the foot of swinging column, pray for favorable rain and wind, abundant crops, health for villagers with prosperous life. |
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| Representatives of families take turns to offer offerings of their families to the Deities paying for a prosperous life. |
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| Then transfer the tray of offerings to park’s worship place and arrange neatly |
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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. |
