Tay minority people in Tuyen Quang celebrate spring festival
Tuyen Quang (VNA) – The Long
Tong (going to the field) Festival opened in Chiem Hoa district of the northern
mountainous province of Tuyen Quang on January 29 after a three-year hiatus due
to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Celebrated annually by Tay
ethnic minority people in the province on the eighth day of the new lunar year, it is a religious ritual dedicated to the god of agriculture to win his blessing
for verdant crops and prosperity for villagers throughout the year.
It consists of an offering ritual, a ploughing ceremony and folk games.
Long Tong is the most typical festival of the Tay, an ethnic minority group
living in the northern mountain region with a population of over 1.6 million.
The festival was named national intangible
cultural heritage in 2013./.