In addition to eliminating bad customs and building a civilized lifestyle, the preservation of traditional culture has always been a focus of the La Chi community in Ban Diu commune, Xin Man district, Ha Giang province. This has contributed to creating a healthy and civilized living environment, promoting cultural values for socio-economic development, and building great national unity in the area.
The La Chi ethnic group in Ban Diu accounts for over 65% of the commune's population, living mainly in the villages of Na Lung, Diu Ha, Diu Thuong and Nam Lim. As an ethnic group with many cultural features imbued with identity, the La Chi people here always strive to preserve cultural values associated with life through many generations. These include: Preserving all rituals in the Hoang Van Thung Festival associated with the Khu Cu Te Festival in the 7th lunar month every year; ancestor worship ceremonies for 3 generations in the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th and 12th lunar months; singing love songs at weddings, festivals and New Year's; wearing traditional costumes on important family and local holidays...
Following the drum beat, people brought incense offerings to Hoang Van Thung Temple.
In particular, the La Chi people always pay attention to making ethnic costumes and teach them to their children in the family. From a young age, girls are carefully guided by their grandmothers and mothers in each step to successfully make a set of clothes. Thanks to that, the costumes of the people here through many generations have always preserved the cultural values of the La Chi people. In addition, the La Chi community also does a very good job of preserving the ethnic language. In order for the La Chi language not to be lost, families proactively guide their children to learn the ethnic language from a young age.
Chairman of the Folk Artisans Association of Ban Diu Commune, Long Duc Khuong, said: Preserving traditional culture is an important factor in the life of the La Chi people. In addition to maintaining cultural features with strong identity, the factor of preserving the language for young people today is always focused on by local authorities and people. Maintaining the speaking of La Chi in daily life in each family helps children from 5 to 6 years old to listen and understand the meaning of what adults say, and children from 7 years old and up can communicate very well in La Chi.
Along with preserving culture, the La Chi people in Ban Diu have also seriously eliminated bad customs since Resolution 27 was implemented. Specifically: The time for organizing the Khu Cu Te Tet festival associated with the Hoang Van Thung festival has been shortened from 15 days to 7 days; weddings no longer have dowry demands, incestuous marriages, long-term organization, and couples who hold weddings are of marriageable age and have marriage registration certificates; 100% of households at funerals put the deceased in a coffin, do not slaughter many livestock, organize funerals for no more than 48 hours, and pay cash instead of donating offerings. In daily life, people proactively clean and sanitize around their houses, and there is no longer a situation of keeping livestock and poultry under the floor of the house; each household has a vegetable garden, water tank, bathroom, hygienic toilet, and makes a garbage pit and barn far from home; When a family member is sick, they take him to a medical facility for examination. They no longer ask for fortune telling or worship.
To do a good job of preserving the culture, in the coming time, Ban Diu commune will cooperate with schools to bring artisans to teach drum dancing, traditional costume sewing, orchid weaving and love singing to students; promote propaganda work to raise people's awareness of preserving the cultural values of their ethnic group in association with eliminating bad customs.
Hong Nhung/ Ha Giang Newspaper
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