Opening of the New Rice Festival in Ngoc Chien Commune in 2025

Opening ceremony of the new rice festival in Ngoc Chien commune in 2025.

The 2025 Ngoc Chien commune new rice festival includes a ceremony and a festival. The ceremony includes a new rice offering ceremony at Don Ho Church, Muong Chien village; Sa Mu tree god church, Na Tau village. The shaman performs the ceremony to express gratitude to ancestors, gods, heaven and earth, praying for favorable weather, good harvest, a prosperous and full life. After the ceremony at the ancestral church, households prepare a new rice offering ceremony at home. Depending on the conditions of each family, guests are invited to join in the fun. At the end of the ceremony, the host invites guests to join in the fun with a jar of rice wine, wishing each other good things.

New rice offering ceremony at Don Ho Church, Muong Chien village.

Leaders of Ngoc Chien commune burn incense and offer new rice at Don Ho Church, Muong Chien village.

The festival attracted a large number of visitors with special performances under the theme "New Rice Ngoc Chien", with many singing, dancing and music performances by artisans and art troupes from the commune's villages resounding in the mountains and forests, praising the Party, Uncle Ho, the innovative homeland, love between couples, natural scenery and the fragrant rice scent of Ngoc Chien fields.

Delegates attending the festival.

The festival not only restores, preserves and promotes the fine traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities, but also encourages the people to build a cultural life and expand the specialized sticky rice growing area. This is also an opportunity to promote, introduce and attract domestic and foreign tourists to experience, enjoy, find investment opportunities, exchange, cooperate and develop in the fairy-tale countryside of Ngoc Chien with great potential for tourism development.

Performance at the festival.

Held at the right time when the rice fields stretching along Chien stream are golden ripe, creating a beautiful bustling "golden season" picture in the middle of majestic mountains and forests, coming to the Festival, visitors can participate in a series of cultural activities, sports , and attractive traditional games, imbued with the cultural identity of ethnic minorities in the highlands and experience the rice pounding competition; traditional costume competition and the beauty of the girls of the fairyland of Ngoc Chien commune; perform the "Buffalo Worship Ceremony" and the buffalo prince competition; fish catching competition, stone stacking competition, culinary competition... promising to bring domestic and foreign visitors interesting experiences.