Viet Nam Human Rights
Festival to highlight Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day
12/4/18
Xang Khan, a traditional festival of the Thai ethnic
group, where herbalists pay tribute to gods and ancestors who taught them to
cure ailments, will be part of an event to celebrate the Viet Nam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural
Day on April 19.
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| Paying respects: Xang Khan, a traditional festival of the Thai ethnic group, where herbalists pay tribute to gods and ancestors who taught them to cure ailments, will be part of an event to celebrate the Viet Nam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day. |
Xang Khan festival was recognised as a national intangible
cultural heritage last year. It is an occasion for people to express gratitude
for local herbalists who cure them from illness. It is also a rendezvous for
young men and women. At the festival, locals and tourists will have an
opportunity to enjoy a show of traditional costumes of ethnic groups, gong
performances, dances and folk games.
The Xang Khan festival will take place on April 21.
It is part of a wide range of activities organised from
April 19-22 at the Culture and Tourism
Villages of Vietnamese Ethnic Groups
in Son Tay District, 45km west of Hanoi’s
centre.
About 270 people from 30 ethnic groups across the country
will show off their distinctive culture, traditional festivals and worship
rituals at the event, according to Lam Van Khang, head of the village’s
management board.
“The cultural event will help honour patriotism, the
cultural diversity and national solidarity,” he said.
An art performance to celebrate 10 years since the first
Viet Nam Ethnic Groups’ Cultural Day will be highlight of the event. It will be
broadcast live on Viet Nam Television.
The performance will star troupes from the southern province of Soc Trang
and the Central Highlands province
of Kon Tum as well as of
people residing in the village.
The cultural day of the Khmer people on April 20 will
recreate the Chol Chnam Thmay, the Khmer New Year festival, and feature du ke,
a style of musical theatre created by the Khmer people in Vietnam in the early
1920s.
Du ke originated from workers in the Mekong Delta. In the
early days, it was performed on land, under a simple roof. Actors were peasants
who portrayed kings, queens and ogresses. The singing drama uses poetry based
on Indian epics, for example, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
On the cultural day of ethnic people from the northwest, the
Thai ethnic group in Nghe An Province will present Xang Khan festival and a
series of cooking demonstrations of traditional dishes by the Tay of Thai Nguyen
Province, the Dao of Hanoi, the Mong of Ha Giang, the Muong of Hoa Binh, the
Kho Mu of Dien Bien and the Thai of Son La.
The culture and music of the Central Highlands will be
featured on April 22 with the performance of the Gia Rai ethnic people. They
will perform a ritual to pray for rain which is practiced in April and May
every year to pray for rain and bumper crops. The traditional music of the
region will also be played during the day.
A photo exhibition reviewing the activities taking place at
the village during the 10 years implementing the Viet Nam Ethnic Groups’
Cultural Day will be held during the four-day festival.
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Vietnam is a multi-nationality country with 54 ethnic groups.
The voice of each ethnic group creates different languages, but due to Vietnamese ethnic groups live closely, one ethnic group may know languages of some others whom has regular relationship while their own culture character.
The Vietnamese government has worked out specific policies and special treatments in order to help mountainous people catching up with lowland people, and made great efforts to develop and preserve traditional cultural identities of each ethnic minority group
In the plain and midland, ethnic groups grow water rice, building the culture of villages and hamlets with the center of communal house, well and banian tree, surrounding by green thorny vital bamboo trees.
The cultural event will help honour patriotism, the cultural diversity and national solidarity
ethnic groups have traditions of patriotism and coordination in conquering the nature and social fight, throughout the history of country foundation, building and development
Ethnic minorities often have habit of drinking out of wine jar through pipes, which shows the rich community sentiment.
Everywhere, people fall in line with the nature, the nature also satisfies people
Vietnam is the mixture place of different cultures in the region
Beliefs and religions of the Vietnamese ethnic minority groups were also disparate from each other.
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