Some people liken Vietnam to a beautiful carpet weaving in harmonious colors of 54 ethnic groups. Cultural "carpet" is "woven" with 54 "threads" of the main color, with thousands and thousands of cultural elements of each ethnic group. The La Chi ethnic group is one of the colors on that cultural "carpet".
The La Chi people have long been sedentary and settled in the northern mountains for a long time, mainly living in Hoang Su Phi and Xin Man districts of Ha Giang province. La Chi people have many festivals, of which the most unique one is the Hoang Van Thung Festival and Cu Te New Year Festival.
Hoang Van Thung and Cu Cu New Year Festival is a traditional folk festival recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a national intangible cultural heritage. This is a religious festival with profound and widespread influence to the communities of La Chi, Tay, Nung, Mong, Dao ... in the districts of Xin Man, Hoang Su Phi, Quang Binh and Vi. Xuyen. For the La Chi community, the Cu Te New Year is the occasion for the people in the lineage to meet, to come back to the family on the occasion of Tet, even if the family is away from home, the clan will eat and talk and show the spirit of attachment. community, pray for a prosperous, happy life ...
In the old legend, people used to live in shifting cultivation and nomadic life in the past. living in extreme misery; crop failure, constant hunger and thirst. One day, a tall and healthy man appeared, instructing people to build mountains into terraced fields to grow wet rice; raising chickens, pigs and goats; fight the enemy to plunder. Since then, her life gradually stabilized, full. After helping the villagers to fight the enemy, he returned to Gia Long Mountain and his relatives no longer saw him. From then on, people set up a temple to worship incense and incense, every year to Thin and Thin every year; villagers organized the death anniversary of Mr. Hoang Van Thung. Through the legend above, Hoang Van Thung is considered by the La Chi people to be the deity to protect crops and the peaceful life of the people in the area.
The Cu Te Tet holiday of La Chi people is usually celebrated in the 7th lunar month every year, when rice and maize plants have grown green in the field. However, the organization must also follow the general rules of the community. The first is the election of the chairperson of the La Chi community, who is called the "Toad", who is reputable in the community. The maids of "Toad" are called "So fares". Rat day is defined as the buffalo slaughter day of the community, buffalo meat is a must-have food for ancestor worship in Cu Te New Year. Each of them dissected a buffalo together. The Chief will be the one holding the buffalo horns. Buffalo horn is an indispensable item in the ceremony of La Chi people. The horns of the buffalo are washed, exposed to the sun, cut short at the end of the horn and drilled in the pointed part of the horn, pierced with a string to hang. The buffalo horn is hung with a basket and a ginger in the middle with an ancestor altar, then the Head of the family begins to call the ancestors' souls to celebrate Tet with their descendants, invite the Ancestor to drink bitter tomato juice, and eat buffalo meat and drink alcohol. After the worshiping ceremony was finished, the gongs and drums emerged, and the guests invited guests from near and far to eat buffalo meat that the villagers could raise, and eat sticky rice that the villagers planted on fertile Ban Diu land, and drank sweet wine like aromatic hearts of La Chi people here. The Cu Quê New Year Festival of the La Chi people means praying for the ancestors to bless the corns and paddy rice filled with lovers; buffaloes and cows are full of barns, good fat; healthy descendants, happy families, warm villages ... They invite guests from near and far to eat buffalo meat that the villagers can raise, and eat sticky rice that the villagers can grow on the fertile land of Ban Diu, and drink sweet wine like the aromatic heart of La Chi people here. The Cu Quê New Year Festival of the La Chi people means praying for the ancestors to bless the corns and paddy rice filled with lovers; buffaloes and cows are full of barns, good fat; healthy descendants, happy families, warm villages ... They invite guests from near and far to eat buffalo meat that the villagers can raise, and eat sticky rice that the villagers can grow on the fertile land of Ban Diu, and drink sweet wine like the aromatic heart of La Chi people here. The Cu Quê New Year Festival of the La Chi people means praying for the ancestors to bless the corns and paddy rice filled with lovers; buffaloes and cows are full of barns, good fat; healthy descendants, happy families, warm villages ...
Hoang Van Thung festival associated with the Cu Te New Year festival of the La Chi community in the western districts of the province plays an important and indispensable role in community cohesion, reinforcing the spirit of solidarity among the people. ethnic groups living together in the area. Along with preserving the good traditional cultural values, the people of the Western peoples of the province have always promoted the spirit of solidarity and belief in the leadership of the Party; labor efforts production, building a prosperous life, determined to firmly protect the land of rooster country.
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