New Rice Festival - The Biggest Annual Celebration of the Xơ Đăng People
The New Rice Festival is when the Xơ Đăng people of the Central Highlands thank the gods and spirits for a bountiful harvest.
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Where do the Xơ Đăng people mainly live?
The Xơ Đăng people live in Quảng Ngãi province (before July 2025 this was Kon Tum province), in the two districts of Trà My and Phước Sơn (before July 2025) of Quảng Ngãi province (before July 2025 this was Quảng Nam province), and in Tây Sơn district (before July 2025) of Quảng Ngãi, with the largest concentration in the Ngọc Linh mountain range area.
From the article “Xơ Đăng Ethnic Group: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs and Main Festivals”
Xơ Đăng Ethnic Group: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs and Main Festivals
The Xơ Đăng include the Xơ Teng, Tơ Đrá, Mnam, Ca Dong, Ha Lăng, Tà Trĩ and Chau subgroups in Kon Tum, Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi, with worship of Kiak spirits.
What Types of Traditional Festivals Are There in Vietnam?
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The Rong House in the Cultural Life of the Central Highlands Ethnic Groups
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The Giẻ Triêng People: Where They Live, Their Language, Worship Customs and Main Festivals
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The Rơ Măm People: Residence, Language, Worship Customs and Main Festivals
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Is Online Tarot Reliable and Worth Using? A View from History, Psychology, and Survey Data
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The First-Foot Custom at Lunar New Year: Origins, How Old Vietnamese Chose the First Visitor, and How the Custom Is Changing
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How Reliable Are Personality Tests: Enneagram, MBTI, and Why Employers Should Not Use Them to Screen People Out, with a Comparative North, Central, and South Vietnam Perspective
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Beliefs and Festivals of the Cham People
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Đặng Thành Tâm
Chairman of Kinh Bac City Development Holding Corporation (KBC)
Nguyễn Đăng Quang
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Masan Group
Đặng Văn Ngữ
Physician, founder of the field of parasitology in Vietnam
Đặng Văn Lâm
Goalkeeper of the Vietnam national team, 2018 AFF Cup champion
Đặng Thái Sơn
Classical pianist, the first Asian artist to win First Prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition (1980)
Đặng Lê Nguyên Vũ
Chairman and General Director of Trung Nguyên Group
Nguyễn Văn Hiệu
Theoretical physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
Ngô Quyền
Victory at Bạch Đằng in 938, ending the period of Northern domination