According to custom, every year on the 1st day of the 7th month of the Cham calendar, the Cham people who follow Brahmanism eagerly celebrate the Kate Festival. Depending on the locality, the local people worship and make offerings. In Phuoc Hau and Phuoc Thai communes, the ceremony is held at Po-KlongGrai Tower, Hau Sanh village performs the ceremony at Po-rome Tower, and Huu Duc village has the honor of worshiping Po-Inư-Nưgar. According to legend, Po-Inư-Nưgar is the first Mother of the Cham people.
Speaking to congratulate the Cham people at Po-Inư-Nưgar Temple, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee expressed his joy to attend the Kate Festival of the Cham people following Brahmanism in the province. He emphasized that in recent times, the Party and State have had many policies to develop and improve all aspects of material and spiritual life for ethnic minorities, including the Cham people. In particular, ethnic minority areas have received attention, focused on implementing many programs, projects, and support policies that have initially met the needs of production development, gradually stabilizing life; health care and education have been seriously implemented by all levels and sectors. Political security, social order and safety have been maintained; the lives of ethnic people in the province, including the Cham people, have been improved. Along with that, the work of preserving and promoting the good traditional cultural values of the Cham people has been paid attention to and achieved positive results. The temple and tower relics are precious and priceless heritages of the Cham people, honored by the state, restored, embellished, preserved and promoted; many traditional festivals of the people have been maintained and developed.
Comrade Pham Van Hau, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council visited and attended the Kate worship ceremony with Cham people following Brahmanism at Po-Inu-Nugar temple.
In particular, recently, "The art of pottery making of the Cham people has been recognized by UNESCO in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Protection". This result has the important contribution of Cham dignitaries and people in the province, who have always believed in the leadership of the Party, the State, the local Party Committee and authorities, have made positive contributions to preserving and promoting the cultural identity of the Cham people, actively participating in the movement of the whole people to protect national security and the new rural construction program; contributing to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland, building the great national unity bloc, building the homeland of Ninh Thuan increasingly civilized and modern. Through this, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee requested that all levels, sectors and localities in the province continue to have practical and specific actions and deeds to accompany and preserve Cham cultural heritage, preserve and develop the Kate Festival in the coming time; Organize Kate Festival activities of Cham people in Ninh Thuan province worthy of the scale and value of a national intangible cultural heritage.
After the worshiping ritual at the Po-Inư-Nưgar temples, the Cham people following Brahmanism in Huu Duc officially opened the Kate festival. The Kate festival with its unique and distinctive cultural values associated with spiritual life, religious activities, beliefs, and production labor is maintained and developed in the community, becoming the beauty and cultural identity of the Cham people. Today, the "Kate festival of the Cham people in Ninh Thuan province" is part of the national cultural heritage of Vietnam. It is a great contribution of Cham culture to the unified and diverse Vietnamese culture, adding more vivid colors to the overall Vietnamese culture.
Diem My
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