New rice ceremony of the Muong ethnic group, Hoa Binh province

The new Muong people's celebration in normal peace is held after the harvest season, at the October lunar calendar, at this time the families organize themselves or invite him to celebrate to thank the sky, the gods, the ancestors for blessing the rain, the trees and the trees, the Muong people have a warm, full life.

In the ripe rice season, the family owner chose a good day to visit the field, interrupted seven or nine the beautiful glutinous rice with the beautiful, symbolizing the seven walls or nine the rice in their fields into a small bundle to hang at the top of the column in the house where the ancestor altar. After this ritual, everyone can go to the rice field. After harvesting the season, people worship new rice. The tray must be full including: young rice, grilled fish, pork and two main dishes are young rice and grilled fish.

This ceremony from ancient times is mainly the ceremony (ritual, ways, presentation rituals) so that the teacher, the priest or the staff can do the procedures for the ceremony according to traditional customs. The festival is almost fainted, but mostly relatives of the villagers come to play (because of the organization of each family) they bring gongs and the bands of the flute to play together in a day, usually ending in the evening. In folklore they only call "new rice" or new celebration, they are not called "festivals" but a festival in the ceremony.

The new celebration ceremony took place in the Muong ethnic village space, the cultural and tourism village of Vietnamese ethnic groups prepared with the most delicious and most beautiful dishes to worship heaven and earth, invite ancestors, thank the gods for bringing to the family, the village of the season was full, praying for the ethnic groups to eat, eat well, happy and eliminate bad people according to the Muong ethnic group.

In the past, the Muong people were every season when the family was prepared to celebrate the new rice before monthly including: New glutinous rice, new rice, ash leaves (colored leaves), new wine (cooked with new sticky rice), chicken food, duck, fish, wood ear, shiitake, spice, betel nut, bamboo tray, tray and staging for ritual tray, all kinds of work, all kinds of work, all kinds Ceremony (offerings must be complete before celebrating the worshiping ceremony). A full tray of rituals for the Divine Spirit of Earth-Earth-Earth-Earth, Lady Waterfall and other gods. A tray for the ancestors, the tutelary god, Uncle Ho.

The content of the prayer with the meaning: Rice is the quintessence of heaven and earth, is a product that feeds people and today the descendants bring the best, most beautiful worshiping heaven and earth, inviting ancestors, thanking the gods for bringing them to the family and village of the season. Praying for ancestors, divine blessing for the next crop to be the rain and wind.

The new celebration is a beauty in the culture of the Muong people because thereby showing the tradition of drinking water to remember the source, respect for the ancestors, the parents and grandparents, showing the affection of the family, the love of the village always durable.

After the ceremony, family members gathered together to enjoy their labor results. During the new celebration, there are often all grandparents, parents and grandchildren gathered happily, neighbors can also come to fun, they give each other beautiful words or ideas, encourage each other to try in the next crops. Finally, when the rituals have been completed, all families choose a few good bundles of rice seeds to go to the kitchen to keep the rice with the hope of a new bumper season.