The Dao are the 9th largest ethnic group in Vietnam with a population of just under 500,000. They belong to the H'mong Dao language group and are believed to have started migrating from China in the 13th century. The women wear some of the most colourful and diverse costumes of all ethnic groups but can be identified by their black trousers richly embroidered with flower or small star patterns. Their jackets can be red or black usually with embroidered borders. The ensemble is topped by a black or red turban together with chunky silver jewelry. In addition most Dao women shave off their eyebrows and foreheads as this is traditionally regarded as a sign of beauty.
The Dao consider themselves to be the descendants of Ban Vuong or Ban Ho, a legendary character of the Dao people.
Overtime, the Dao people in China were divided into small groups and they migrated to different places, with some of them coming to Vietnam. During the migration, the different groups incorporated some cultural practices of other nations, creating new, diverse Dao cultures. However, the different groups still maintain a common Dao identity, as they have the same origins and continue to share a common language.
Red Dao people mainly live in Cao Bang, Lang Son, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang and Lao Cai. Nowadays, Ta Phin village has more than 700 Red Dao people.
A number of variations of the Red Dao can be found around the famous hill station of Sapa. Common features are the embroidered trousers and jacket, but the most stunning part of the ensemble is the scarlet turban which can either be decorated with tassels or bells. Some Dao only wear a red scarf.
The Dao consider themselves to be the descendants of Ban Vuong or Ban Ho, a legendary character of the Dao people.
Overtime, the Dao people in China were divided into small groups and they migrated to different places, with some of them coming to Vietnam. During the migration, the different groups incorporated some cultural practices of other nations, creating new, diverse Dao cultures. However, the different groups still maintain a common Dao identity, as they have the same origins and continue to share a common language.
Red Dao people mainly live in Cao Bang, Lang Son, Tuyen Quang, Ha Giang and Lao Cai. Nowadays, Ta Phin village has more than 700 Red Dao people.
A number of variations of the Red Dao can be found around the famous hill station of Sapa. Common features are the embroidered trousers and jacket, but the most stunning part of the ensemble is the scarlet turban which can either be decorated with tassels or bells. Some Dao only wear a red scarf.
Especially, in autumn, when the rice harvest, the grain on the banks of, maize down the field, this is also the time of Red Dao wedding ceremony for you when we were up his wife and married her husband. Wedding ceremonies of the Red Dao bold traditional culture. A family wedding but at the same time is fun, the festival of the village, both.
According to the tradition of the Red Dao people, before the ceremony bride, the landlord must be invited to the ceremony shaman “clean house”, Red Dao as “Pia Peng – beam PAI-bit”. He offered up the altar horns – instruments in sacred ceremony. Before the altar, solemnly invited shaman ancestors, the gods to witness the young couple married, clean chase evil spirits, the evil. With the profession: “Today beautiful day / I in archery / Tung for yin and yang / Questions asked of sugar / Only do good / I was subtracted ma / Fill and evil / out streams”. Both profession, shaman running around the house, and then sprinkled holy water and released evil spirits iron rod.
At the same time, a trumpet in the finished wine, mix with drums, gongs, the sound is vibrant. Trumpet music team rushed east, back to the west, north-south rotation signal is clean, they are ready for the new bride.
Sister team celebrated the first lane, the boys ring tone horns, beat gongs. He blows skyward ask the sky, bowed to the ground soil. Now the procession-in-law was about. Bride with umbrella, crimson wedding headgear roof. Band trumpet the left to take blows lane, where space gong offered 3 times all praise “Ta false”. Echoes the praise is not an end, but a warm cup of wine was handed over from the old to the young men, and women.
Bride, groom worship road and money
He shaman holding a rooster to, the other hand holding the sword identity begins to sacrifice chickens. A blow for the region, head chicken left out of the neck, people attend will howl an hour. Bride boldly crossed the basin of water permitted, the double upstairs for the sacred. This ritual represents the couple has overcome numerous hardships, overcome any disaster, now the bride has the husband.
The ceremony continued with the naming ceremony shaman, exchange and drink red wine for the young couple. Teacher praise: “My husband and stick / they associate / No married a small stream / married into the sea movement / pigs to wire / chicken farming, full tennis / Sowing rice, high quality home guard / Sell row, run on / Childbirth with both boys and girls / Literacy many will be made “.
After my sister, the daughter of, the son saw this trumpet music team used the connection. Trumpet boss song “Seo control in”, the team strapless trumpet music round the bride and groom, then both blow and run around his daughter and two matchmakers. Trumpet call, drumming urging, the sound was waving. Finally, the music lineup trumpet runs under trigrams, run by the yin yang and the five. Teng trumpet leather Diet, earnest heart home boy longs housekeeping girl, cherish the family. Trumpet tone “Seo control in” becomes the string sound, invisible but strong connection to the spouse, family connection, family and community.
Fall up to the mountainous northwest, visitors will be immersed in the joyful festival, special, including wedding ceremony of the Red Dao.
According to the tradition of the Red Dao people, before the ceremony bride, the landlord must be invited to the ceremony shaman “clean house”, Red Dao as “Pia Peng – beam PAI-bit”. He offered up the altar horns – instruments in sacred ceremony. Before the altar, solemnly invited shaman ancestors, the gods to witness the young couple married, clean chase evil spirits, the evil. With the profession: “Today beautiful day / I in archery / Tung for yin and yang / Questions asked of sugar / Only do good / I was subtracted ma / Fill and evil / out streams”. Both profession, shaman running around the house, and then sprinkled holy water and released evil spirits iron rod.
At the same time, a trumpet in the finished wine, mix with drums, gongs, the sound is vibrant. Trumpet music team rushed east, back to the west, north-south rotation signal is clean, they are ready for the new bride.
Sister team celebrated the first lane, the boys ring tone horns, beat gongs. He blows skyward ask the sky, bowed to the ground soil. Now the procession-in-law was about. Bride with umbrella, crimson wedding headgear roof. Band trumpet the left to take blows lane, where space gong offered 3 times all praise “Ta false”. Echoes the praise is not an end, but a warm cup of wine was handed over from the old to the young men, and women.
Bride, groom worship road and money
He shaman holding a rooster to, the other hand holding the sword identity begins to sacrifice chickens. A blow for the region, head chicken left out of the neck, people attend will howl an hour. Bride boldly crossed the basin of water permitted, the double upstairs for the sacred. This ritual represents the couple has overcome numerous hardships, overcome any disaster, now the bride has the husband.
The ceremony continued with the naming ceremony shaman, exchange and drink red wine for the young couple. Teacher praise: “My husband and stick / they associate / No married a small stream / married into the sea movement / pigs to wire / chicken farming, full tennis / Sowing rice, high quality home guard / Sell row, run on / Childbirth with both boys and girls / Literacy many will be made “.
After my sister, the daughter of, the son saw this trumpet music team used the connection. Trumpet boss song “Seo control in”, the team strapless trumpet music round the bride and groom, then both blow and run around his daughter and two matchmakers. Trumpet call, drumming urging, the sound was waving. Finally, the music lineup trumpet runs under trigrams, run by the yin yang and the five. Teng trumpet leather Diet, earnest heart home boy longs housekeeping girl, cherish the family. Trumpet tone “Seo control in” becomes the string sound, invisible but strong connection to the spouse, family connection, family and community.
Fall up to the mountainous northwest, visitors will be immersed in the joyful festival, special, including wedding ceremony of the Red Dao.
