Offering rites of the Chăm people
Other names: Chàm, Chiêm Thành, Hroi
Culture and belief A record of custom.
- Language family
- Austronesian
- Population
- 178,948 (2019)
The rites
- Cúng hạ thủy tàu thuyền (offering at the launching of a boat)When launching a newly built boat, when beginning the fishing season; in some places the boat is offered to before every sea trip and on the last day of the year
- Lễ Katê of the Chăm peopleThe 1st day of the seventh month of the Chăm calendar (around late September or October of the solar calendar)
- Lễ tảo mộ (grave-visiting rite) and ancestor offering on Ramưwan of the Chăm Bà Ni peopleThree days before the month of Ramưwan (the 9th month of the Islamic calendar of the Chăm Bà Ni)