Forest Festival, also known as Forest Worship Ceremony, contains the belief of worshiping the Forest God of the Mong people that has been passed down through many generations. In all villages of Na Hau commune, there is a forbidden forest - a sacred forest located in the most beautiful location of the village, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth converges to worship the Forest God with "inviolable" regulations.
According to the Mong people's concept, the green forests, forbidden forests, and sacred forests near the village are places to protect the villagers from the wind, flash floods, and provide them with food, water to drink, and to irrigate their fields. Keeping the forest lush is also keeping the villagers safe and warm. Every year on the last day of January, the villages in Na Hau commune gather in the "forbidden forest, sacred forest" of the village to organize the "Forest God Worship Ceremony". The Forest Worship Ceremony is the most important traditional ritual of the Mong people, to pray that the Forest God will bring a prosperous life to the villagers. This is also an opportunity for the villagers to plan to protect the forest for the whole year.
The shaman performed a ceremony at the base of a large tree in the sacred forest.
According to the Mong people's custom, after the forest worship ceremony, all villages of Na Hau commune prohibit the forest for 3 days to thank the Forest God. Also during these 3 days, everyone absolutely follows the taboos prescribed by customary law, which are not to go into the forest to cut down green trees, not to bring green leaves from the forest home, not to dig up roots, break bamboo shoots, not to dig the ground, not to let livestock roam free, not to dry clothes outdoors, not to grind corn, pound rice...
A special thing in the forest worship ceremony of the Mong people in Na Hau is that families will send family members and other households in the village to cook food together right in the sacred forest of the village. After the ceremony, the families will eat together on homemade bamboo tables right at the edge of the forest.
Families in the village cook and celebrate Tet together right at the edge of the sacred forest.
Within the framework of the festival, Na Hau commune organized competitions and performances of folk games, cultural and artistic performances of the Mong people such as: spinning tops, pushing sticks, tug of war, crossbow shooting. Pao bouncing games, spinning tops, pushing sticks, crossbow shooting, shuttlecock kicking, tug of war, catching fish with bamboo traps in the fields... and performances of lip trumpets, leaf trumpets, panpipe dancing, senh tien stick dancing, and antiphonal singing of the Mong people; Organizing photo exhibitions with the theme of Van Yen land and people, sightseeing activities, experiencing the traditional mechanical forging model of the Mong people; brocade embroidery model of Mong people's costumes; Cloud hunting at Ba Khuy peak; Ban Tat waterfall, Tien waterfall, Bat Cave, Golden Cave, primeval forest...; enjoying culinary dishes: men men, sturgeon, black chicken, native pig, night snails, mustard greens, bitter vegetables...
At the same time, Na Hau organized a Mong ethnic village fair with 20 booths with typical Mong products such as agricultural products including: Shan tea, cinnamon products, purple rice, upland sticky rice, cardamom, cardamom, vegetables and fruits... Manual mechanics: knives, hoes, shovels, spades, hammers... Costumes: Mong shirts, skirts, necklaces, bibs... Props: panpipes, flutes, money sticks, Mong cauldrons...
Mong Na Hau people participate in folk games
Forest Tet is a custom of the Mong people in Na Hau commune that has been passed down from generation to generation. Forest Tet has become a long-standing custom for the Mong people here to remember their roots, reminding each other to join hands to build a prosperous and safe life in the middle of the vast green forest. Forest Tet is also an opportunity for each local and tourist to appreciate each tree and each forest and educate awareness of environmental protection, building a green, harmonious, unique and happy life.
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