Harvest celebration of the M'nong ethnic group in Tuy Duc district

The harvest festival is an important festival in the religious life of the M'nong people, usually taking place in the dry season from January to March of the solar calendar, after the harvest has been completed.

Large-scale festivals are usually held every 3–5 years, attracting the participation of many villages.

The host family performs the welcoming ceremony.

According to tradition, before the ceremony, the village elders and the village heads meet to agree on the date, offerings and scale depending on the community’s contributions. Each village brings products such as pigs, chickens, and rice wine to the event, and the host village also prepares similarly to entertain guests.

The villagers brought offerings such as rice wine, chickens, pigs and agricultural products to the ceremony.

Then, the village elder assigned everyone to prepare: adults brewed wine, artisans practiced gong dancing, young people competed, women took care of sticky rice, bamboo poles...

Village elder reads M'nong prayer to celebrate harvest

The season celebration takes place with the following rituals: welcoming ceremony, main ritual, wine opening and inviting ritual, fire lighting ritual and folk cultural exchange.

The village elders and the village chiefs performed the wine opening ceremony together.

The harvest festival is meant to thank the gods for blessing the harvest, and is also an occasion for the community to rest, have fun, and recreate a rich cultural and spiritual life.

Delegates attend the fire lighting ceremony.

Through rituals, we contribute to preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values ​​of the M'nong people in particular and the Central Highlands people in general.

Delegates, people of Tuy Duc district and tourists exchange folk culture

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