New cultural heritages added to national treasure
Four of the newly-recognised are from the northwestern mountainous
province of Lao Cai. They include the Roong pooc (praying for bumper
crops) festival of the Giay ethnic people, the Red Dao people’s Put tong
ritual, the silver carving of the Mong people in Sa Pa district, and
Chang slaw (the making of paper cut pictures) of the Nung Din people in
Muong Khuong district.
The others are the art of Xoe
dancing by the Thai ethnic group in the nearby province of Dien Bien,
and the Pao dung singing and Cap sac (age-coming) ritual of the Dao
people in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang.
Meanwhile, the My Long Sea Worshipping Festival, held in My Long Bac
and My Long Nam communes and My Long town of Cau Ngang district, the
Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh, is the only representative from the
southern region.-VNA