Pang A Festival Performance

Continuing at the contest of performing excerpts from festivals and traditional cultural rituals of ethnic groups in Son La province, artisans and mass actors of Muong La commune performed excerpts from the Pang A Festival.

Performance of excerpt from Pang A Festival in Muong La commune.

Pang A Festival is a unique cultural and religious feature held to pray for good crops, good health, good luck for the villagers and to express gratitude to the gods and the healers who have protected the villagers. The festival is a beautiful traditional cultural feature of the La Ha ethnic group.

The ceremony is recreated in a theatrical form, the ritual is performed around the "Xang pang" pole, including a hook symbolizing the black buffalo, a banana tree symbolizing the white buffalo. On the hook are decorated many objects related to daily life such as: gravel, bamboo, cicada, con fruit, dove, bauhinia, sword, plow, harrow... After finishing the preparation, the shaman begins to worship and invite ancestors, gods in the sky, gods of mountains, forests, rivers, and streams, local gods, and local gods to witness the sincerity of the villagers, praying for everyone to have a peaceful life and a bountiful harvest.

Performance of excerpt from Pang A Festival in Muong La commune.

While the shaman performed the ceremony, the villagers danced together to pray for rain, danced with scarves, danced with swords, danced with drums, competed in throwing cones, and beat tang bu together, enthusiastically dancing xoe, creating a more jubilant and bustling festival atmosphere, expressing joy because the shaman had completed the important ritual, praying for health and luck for everyone. The special dance in the Pang A Festival is the Sung Lung dance, depicting the fertility beliefs, praying for people's health and the growth of all things of the La Ha people.

Performance of excerpt from Pang A Festival in Muong La commune.

Performance of excerpt from Pang A Festival in Muong La commune.

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