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Giay Pooc festival of Giay people in Ta Van commune, Sapa district, Lao Cai province

23/03/2018 15946 0
Giay Pooc festival of Giay people in Ta Van commune, Sapa district, Lao Cai province

The Giay (Bronze) festival is the end of a happy New Year, opening the cycle of production, a new season. This is also a chance to worship the gods (terrain) to pray for fresh corn, livestock breeding, peaceful villages, healthy people, ...

The Giay people said that since the Giay people lived in Ta Van Giay village, Ta Van commune, the Giay descendants saw their grandparents hold the festival of the Roong Pooc on the January Dragon day.

The preparation for the festival is done by the community in a thoughtful manner, with the ritual of cutting the fruit, cutting down the tree, etc. Fruit is also made by five virgin girls, selected in the village. The tree is given to young men choose and tight bring to the main ceremony. In the process of cutting and carrying, do not leave the trunk to touch the ground, to avoid the loss of sacred trees. The owner is responsible for cutting and decorating the round, moon to hang on the tops. Round, the moon has two main colors, with blue represents the moon, red represents the sun, the assembly represents the yin and yang harmony. Before the column is set up, the ceremony to tie the moon, moon to the tree, wait for the time the dragon began to build. According to the Giay people, the team plays a very important role in welcoming the procession, the owner of the village and the offerings of the Jade Emperor, gods, heaven and earth. After carrying the tray to the place where the burial of the tree, if the owner turned to the sunrise, signaled the village owner burned incense to perform the ceremony for the gods of heaven, for holidays. The ceremony of planting a pair of yin-yang (made of peach wood), if sown tuft - back means that the gods have agreed and blessing, instant gold coins for the god. The leader orders the young people to start the column and bury the root tightly. When you bury the column, choose to turn the sun back to the east, the moon turns to the west. The column is made of apricot trees, about 10 to 20 strands long, to the top, then bent to tighten the ring of the sun, the moon. Next, the owner of the yin and yang to know whether the spirits have arrived or not. The material used for the yin-yang is made from a small peach, 6cm long, tapered two heads, split, when asked, a piece of head, a piece of backstroke is, that god has come and consent; If not, continue to apply when new.

Then, the owner of the elderly invited the prestigious (village owners, village elders, village head) first. Male, female stand in two rows (each side 4 people) holding the "fruit" has been "debut" god, throw the symbol three times, get the column as the standard, this side toss and the other pick and roll again , with the goal of piercing through the moon. Then, the owner holding the fruit tray also issued to the youth, men and women standing on either side of the column, throwing also toward the moon, moon, with the purpose of perforating the moon, the sun on the column. The fruit also symbolizes "masculinity", throws in "the fonts", breaking the "fonts", symbolizing the harmony of yin and yang and desire for the season. When throwing the "backstage", the village boss tossed the seeds, with the notion that the sacred seeds, sacred energy, have the ability to reproduce strong, everyone plunged into robbery. This is a form of transmission of spirituality to the seed, in order to impart that divine to the villagers enjoy a bountiful harvest. The tree is still a symbol of the sacred rice, the tree connects the earth with heaven, connected with the yang to all things reconcile, grow, develop ... Also with that concept, when the tree tops the tree must be turned eastward, the direction of the beginning, the direction of the proliferation, proliferation.

Other fun activities, such as singing folk songs, dancing etc., also take place in the festive atmosphere of the festival and especially the game of dragging (also known as dragging the clouds), an impossible game Missing in the Bronze Festival. In this game, the people use a wire or rattan wire, about 20 - 30m long, with the head towards the east, the tip to the west. After tugging, on the field next to the tree area, the villagers brought two large buffaloes to plow from 3 to 5 plow lines, to symbolize the beginning of a new crop.

The Giay Festival of Giay people (Ta Van commune) reflects the aspiration for a prosperous life. The entire ritual and games are always associated with the traditional beliefs, the bridge for all things to multiply, flourish. The rain markers also reflect the boldness in the Association bronze, such as stickers yellow paper on the dragon on the moon, moon with the meaning of ensuring the weather favorable.

The festival is a festival of agriculture, reflecting a part of the history of agricultural production of wet rice of the Giay through faith: polytheism, polytheism, sun worship, etc. Festival was born and developed. From the labor life, production of the Giay people in Ta Van for hundreds of years, so it is historical and humane. This is a community cultural activity that is spiritual, combined with folk, from the art of language, art

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