These days, when coming to Nam Mu village, Phung Sang commune, Tuan Giao district (Dien Bien), tourists will "lose their eyes" in the sight of wildflowers blooming all over the hills and mountains, on the roads leading to the village. ; More specifically, you can immerse yourself in the cultural space with the indigenous and epic nature in the Pang Phoong Festival of the resistance of the Lo clan, Lo Khun branch.
Pang Phoong festival originated from the ancient legend still circulates the unfinished love story between a boy and a gibbon transformed into a girl, in order to honor and people always remember the origin and community connection.
Depending on the conditions of the clans, Pang Phoong festival is held every 3-4 years, usually held in October, November and December (lunar calendar) and takes place continuously for many days.
Every year, when the red crested flowers bloom in the fields are also the ripe rice season and after the harvest is completed, the ethnic Khang resists to organize Pang Phoong festival. The ceremony takes place within a lineage and is held in the lineage's family with the contribution of families in the lineage.
On the main festival day, from the early morning, ancestor worship ceremony is conducted. Most of the sacrifices from a few days ago were arranged by ancestors to worship ancestors, to ask for permission to perform the Pang Phoong ceremony for the lineage. When the offering was finished, the chief invited the ancestor to come to celebrate the ancestor's newspaper and the ancestor invited to attend the ceremony to help the children and grandchildren become healthy and prospered ...
The unique feature of Pang Phoong Festival is shown most clearly in Pang Phoong offerings. According to the concept of the Lo Khun family, because the ancestor of the family is the "Mother of the Gibbon", it is indispensable for fruits and vegetables such as sweet potatoes, papaya, taro, banana, zucchini, pumpkin ...
In addition, the tray also has two cannons made of bamboo and four smoke sticks, a package of broccoli, a pack of sticky rice and sacrificed animals such as pigs and chickens. Sacrifice is divided into bôns tray. He worshiped both took a little food from each tray and placed it in a small tray (called a "tray") made of "Mac-firm" leaves (a common leaf among ethnic minorities).
After the ceremony of declaring and asking for permission from the ancestors, as the representative of the household heads in the family to attend the ceremony, the priest takes the jar of canned wine and holds the "Peng champ kha" (an A-shaped object made from string cracked wine from porcelain jars outside with the meaning of inviting ancestral wine.
Representatives of the families in the family then followed, both prayed and prayed for good and good luck to the family members. Next, the priest and homeowner conducted an outdoor ceremony, asking for permission of the earth to hold the Pang Phoong ceremony at the family.
To perform the outdoor ritual, it is mandatory to have a tray lined with banana leaves, on which a chicken, half a fish, half a sweet potato, a handful of sticky rice and sticky rice, some pumpkin, a bottle of wine and two cups. The tray was placed on an open space next to the house, the priest held a gong while the householder held a bamboo tube.
After praying finished, the priest worshiped the gong to indicate that the territory had allowed the family to organize the festival. After completing the rituals of worshiping ancestors and the earth, the homeowners invited everyone to the party. A wine pitcher is placed in the middle of the house, the landlord celebrates the opening ceremony, inviting everyone to enjoy the wine. The meal took place in the warmth and joy of the whole family. This is also an opportunity for all members of the family to talk, send messages to each other about their love, exchange experiences to develop family economy. At the end of the party, everyone enjoyed the festival.
The festival is held right in the home of the chief. Everyone gathered together to dance "Xé-pang." From old to young, each person holding a bamboo tube (increase-bu) longer than 1m, was prepared in advance. When the leader announced that he was going to start the association, every member was enthusiastically responding.
Two long wooden slats are placed along the floor, when the drums and gongs are heard, everyone is immersed in the dance of traditional stylized hole-punching rituals. People stand close to each other to form a circle to move around, one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of the other, one hand knocking on a bamboo tube and so on in a circle with traditional songs showing solidarity. ethnic group, each beat mixed with the gong drum ...
The Pang Phoong festival of the Khang ethnic people still retains its own identity, bringing a fanciful color, reflecting the spiritual reality of the resistance community, always taking ancestral roots to cultivate the mind of moral virtue. This is also a message connecting the past with the present, connecting the community, expressing the thousand-year idyllic aspirations of the prosperous and happy life of the Northwestern people of the country.
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