The Tay people's rice pounding festival in Chiem Hoa is a national intangible cultural heritage.

VHO - The People's Committee of Chiem Hoa district, Tuyen Quang province has just held a ceremony to receive the Decision to recognize the Com Pounding Festival of the Tay people in Chiem Hoa as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage.

The rice pounding festival of the Tay people in Chiem Hoa district, Tuyen Quang province is a national intangible cultural heritage.

The Com pounding festival (Tam Khau Mau) of the Tay ethnic group in Chiem Hoa district in general and Trung Ha commune in particular is a traditional festival after each rice harvest, expressing the people's gratitude to heaven and earth for giving them a good harvest and a prosperous and happy life.

The rice pounding festival affirms the agricultural production level of the people, not succumbing to natural disasters and epidemics, so that the rice plants are full of grain and the granaries are full of grain.

The festival is held annually in the 9th and 10th lunar months. When the sticky rice begins to have grains, the head of the family chooses a good day and month, asks the sisters in the family to pick the rice into bunches, tie them into small bundles, dig a furnace, weave a square piece of bamboo to cover the furnace mouth, pile up firewood and heat the rice until it is cooked, let it cool, then pound it into a mortar and pound it into delicious green rice grains, to offer to the Jade Emperor and the gods for giving the people a good harvest and a prosperous family.

In 2024, the traditional festival "Com pounding festival of the Tay people in Chiem Hoa district, Tuyen Quang province" was included in the List of national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

With traditional rituals, the rice pounding festival of the Tay people in Chiem Hoa district shows vitality and spirit, creating a unique cultural feature that needs to be preserved, maintained and promoted to contribute to developing into a unique tourism product, attracting tourists to Chiem Hoa in particular and Tuyen in general.

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