Offering rites of the Tày people
Other names: Thổ, Ngạn, Phén, Thù Lao, Pa Dí, Tày Khao
Culture and belief A record of custom.
- Language family
- Tày-Thái
- Population
- 1,845,492 (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
- Lễ Lồng tồng (Lồng tồng festival, going down to the fields) of the Tày and Nùng peoplesFirst lunar month, from the 4th to the 25th depending on the locality
- Then ritual of the Tày, Nùng, Thái peoplesAccording to the household's needs; lẩu Then and Then Kin Pang in spring
- Lễ giải hạn đầu năm (year-beginning rite to ward off misfortune) of the Tày and Nùng peoplesAfter Tết Nguyên đán (Lunar New Year), from the first lunar month to the beginning of the second lunar month
- Lễ cúng hồn trâu (buffalo soul offering rite) of the Tày and Nùng peopleThe 6th day of the 6th lunar month (Cao Bằng, Lạng Sơn); full moon of the seventh lunar month (Nghĩa Đô, Lào Cai)