Ha Giang Moon Bridge Festival

The Moon Festival is the funniest festival of the Tay people in Ha Giang, in these days, the elderly meet and ask about family, production and animal husbandry development.

This is also a festival for boys and girls to meet through the charming songs. For the Tay ethnic group, folk beliefs always think that on the moon has a moon mother and 12 fairies (mother's daughter). The moon mother and 12 fairies always take care of and protect the crops for all peoples.

Therefore, the Tay people in Ban Loan village, Yen Dinh commune, Bac Me district (Ha Giang) regularly maintain the moon festival with the meaning of welcoming Moon's mother and the fairies to happy Mid -Autumn Festival. In these days, the elderly meet and ask about family, production and animal husbandry development. For young people, this is a festival for boys and girls to meet through the graceful songs. As for children, this is the happiest day, the children are picked up star lights, have fun, break the deck under the full moon.

The Moon Bridge Festival is held on the full moon day of August, the festival consists of two parts, the ceremony and the festival. The ceremony is usually held on the evening of August 14 on the lunar calendar on a large ground with the rituals "worshiping the Princess Princess" at the Chung temple to ask for permission to organize the Moon Festival the next night.

At the beginning of the festival, the dance around the table is outdoors. Next, the villagers cook traditional cuisine (Lam rice, iridescent sticky rice, pork sauce, carp fish sauce, salt filling, salted bamboo shoots ...); Play folk games; Gather to sit and drink, enjoy the culinary dishes that have been processed. Blending on the fragrant, ecstatic wine yeast, they danced together, sang with a smooth, loving melody, full of love for the homeland, praising the happiness of the couple ...

The next night, right on the full moon day of August, when the mother moon rises from the top of the mountain and started to shine down the village, all people gathered in the yard. At this time, the priest conducted worshiping the Earth and the gods, the artisans dancing around the offerings when opening the moon.

The moon festival ended when the moon's mother stood in the middle of the head, the whole nostalgia was the ceremony to see off the moon to the sky, then they continued to humble in the Then song, singing with the strangely attracted people. At the end of the ceremony, the village elders will distribute seeds to their descendants, pray for all people a new year to plant favorable, bumper crops, and prosperous villagers. Through the organization of the Moon Bridge Festival, the Tay ethnic people also teach their children and grandchildren to be proud and preserve the traditional cultural values, imbued with the identity of the nation.

When coming to Cau Moon festival, not only listening to singing folk songs, folk games, each tourist also enjoys the traditional cuisine of the Tay ethnic people such as Lam rice, forest vegetables, pork sauce, carp fish sauce, salt fillings, iridescent sticky rice, sour bamboo shoots, black fillings with sesame salt.