Lao Cai Festival

Posted by DH Travel at 9:01 am April 23, 2015

Lao Cai Festival

Spring Mountain Festival

3^rdto 5^thof the 1^stlunar month

This festival of the H^’ Mong ethnic group is called Gau Tao or San Sai, which means “walking in the open air” or “wandering on the mountain top”. The festival is usually held after the lunar New Year celebration on a sloping hill near the village.

The days of the festival are filled with colourful traditional religious customs, such as blessing heaven for a child, fortune or a lucky and happy life. This is also the time that mountain villages, boys and girls, all display their best clothers and new costumes.

Long Tong Festival of the Tay

5^th or 15^th of the 1^st lunar month

The Long Tong Festival Lao Cai in held in the fields near the village. The centre of the festival is the con tree (cloth-ball tree).

It is the most speciffic activity of the Tay People. It is most speciffic activity of the Tay people. It reflects the desire to have good crops, health, as well as many children and grandchildren. The ceremony involves solemn rituals, such as staging a procession for the water, Worshipping ceremonies to the Village Deity, the Stream Deity and the Mountain Deily, and worshipping the con tree.

There are many merry games such nem con (a game in which boys and girls throw cloth balls), tuf of wars, playing cockfights by banana flowers, and buffalo fights by asparagus. Boys and girls come to the festival to folk dance, sing love songd, and make friends.

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