Unique traditional cuisine of ethnic minorities in the Central region

Binh Dinh is a place where many ethnic groups converge and harmonize. In addition to the Kinh ethnic group, which is the majority, Binh Dinh province currently has 39 ethnic minorities living, mainly 3 ethnic groups: Bana Kriem, Cham Hroi, Hre...

The Bana Kriem community in Vinh Thanh district, Binh Dinh province has its own unique cultural features. In addition to folk songs, dances, and music, traditional festivals such as buffalo stabbing festivals, communal house festivals, and new rice festival have their own cultural identity, becoming a way of life that the people preserve and pass down from generation to generation.

Traditional musical instrument performance of Cham people - Ninh Thuan

Gong performance of Rac Lay people - Khanh Hoa

The Bana Kriem people's new rice festival is one of the largest traditional festivals of the year. The festival consists of three main parts: young girls going to the fields to pick new rice and bring it back to the village, the joyful scene of pounding rice and the festival according to the customs of the people here. The festival has the meaning of thanking heaven and earth, ancestors, welcoming the rice spirit back to the village, praying for a year of rice in the house, a prosperous and happy life for the villagers.

Coming to the Competition of performing excerpts of festivals, traditional cultural activities of ethnic groups, and the Cultural Festival of Central Ethnic Groups this time, the Bana Kriem people in Vinh Thanh district, Binh Dinh province re-enacted the festival of eating new rice flakes.

“The reenactment of the new rice festival is a great opportunity for us to promote the cultural identity and spiritual life of the Bana Kriem Vinh Thanh people. This is also an opportunity for us to interact with tourists in Quy Nhon on this occasion,” shared folk artist Dinh Chuong (84 years old, Vinh Son commune, Vinh Thanh district).

Festivals, rituals, and cultural activities have generally simulated the characteristics of the nation's folk beliefs and culture, taking place solemnly and according to customs to thank the land, ancestors, pray for peace, happiness, good crops, etc. as a testament to the richness, diversity and beauty of traditional culture of ethnic groups, with the inheritance of traditional cultural elements imbued with the identity of ethnic minorities...

Traditional cuisine of ethnic groups in the Central region

With the theme “Preserving and promoting the cultural identity of Central ethnic groups - Equality, solidarity, respect, integration and development”, the 4th Central Ethnic Culture Festival has created a meaningful cultural space for cultural management agencies, artists, artisans, ethnic minorities... to meet, exchange and share experiences in preserving, maintaining and promoting traditional cultural values of the nation.

Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung affirmed: “Through the Festival, cultural achievements built over many generations will be continued, nurtured and highlighted over time in history, which is also a strong testament to the spirit of solidarity, indomitable will and aspiration to rise of the ethnic people here.

The kitchen fire of the Thai people - Thanh Hoa

This is also an opportunity to honor and promote the unique and distinctive cultural values of the ethnic groups in the Central region to the people and international tourists, contributing to promoting traditional cultural values associated with tourism development, creating momentum for socio -economic development in localities.

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