Offering rites of the Mường people
Other names: Mol, Mual, Ao Tá, Ậu Tá
Culture and belief A record of custom.
- Language family
- Viet-Muong
- Population
- 1,452,095 (2019)
The rites
- Year-end nêu pole raising ceremonyKinh people: the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month; Mường people: from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month; Tày and Nùng people: the afternoon of the 30th of the twelfth lunar month; nêu pole taken down on the 7th of the first lunar month
- Mo Mường (funeral rites, vía-making)During funeral rites; the vía-making and kéo si ceremonies take place at the beginning of spring or when an elderly person is weak