Long Tong Festival

Long Tong Festival

Dien Bien

Long Tong Festival (going down to the fields) is a unique season-praying ceremony of the Tay and Nung people in Dien Bien, held in the beginning of the first lunar month. The festival prays for favorable weather and good harvests, including a solemn worshiping ceremony and a bustling festival with shuttlecock throwing, stick pushing, and stilt walking, demonstrating the rich cultural identity of highland people.  Outstanding features of the Long Tong Festival: Meaning: This is the most important field festival, imbued with agricultural beliefs, giving thanks to the gods and the land for blessing a year of hard work and praying for a prosperous and happy new year. Time and location: Usually held from the 4th to the 25th of the first lunar month, in large fields or large yards in the village. Ceremony Part: Includes the ritual of offering offerings to the gods, heaven and earth, Tutelary God, Shen Nong with reverence, reporting the results of the old crop and praying for good weather and good crops. Festival Part: Taking place excitingly with many activities and folk games attracting a large number of people and tourists such as: Toss: The most important game, symbolizing praying for a good harvest (the five-colored shuttlecock pierces the bull's eye). Other games: Tug of war, stick pushing, lion dance, blindfolded goat catching, stilt walking, transplanting competition, pounding rice cake, crossbow shooting, bamboo dance.... Cultural space: The festival is not only a place to exchange and tighten community solidarity, but also an opportunity to promote and preserve the traditional cultural beauty of the Tay and Nung people in the Dien Bien highland. 

Long Tong Festival is an indispensable cultural beauty, marking the beginning of a new crop, bringing joy and hope to indigenous people after a year of hard work. 

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