The KHANG Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam

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   The KHANG have more than 15213 inhabitants living in Son La, Dien Bien¹ and Lai Chau² Provinces. They are also called Xa Khao, Xa Xua, Xa Don, Xa Dang, Xa Hoc, Xa Ai, Xa Bung and Quang Lam. The KHANG language belongs to the Mon-Khmer group.

   In the past, the KHANG mainly practised slash-and-bum cultivation by digging holes to sow seeds. They grew sticky rice as staple food. Nowadays, the KHANG plough the fields, adopt wet-rice cultivation and plant forests. Animal husbandly is popular. Their basketry articles nclude chairs, baskets, flat baskets, trunks, and dosser. The KHANG often carry single- handie dossers over their forehead. They can also make swallow-tailed kayaks.

   Formerly, the KHANG grew cotton and exchange it for cloth and garments from the THAI. KHANG women blackened their teeth and chewed betel. This habit now fades.

   The KHANG live in houses-on-s:ilts with roof shaped in tortoise carapace, two entrance doors at both ends and two windows at the two sides. Each house has two cooking fires, one to prepare daily meals and the other to receive guests and cook offering mea’s to worship the dead parents.

   A marriage goes through three steps: proposing marriage, submitting matrilocal residence and wedding. The first wedding ceremony marks the start of the groom’s matrilocal residence. The second marriage is held to accompany the bride to her husband’s home. The maternal uncle plays a special role in his nephews’ and pieces’s marriage.

   It is customary that a dead person is carefully buried. On his or her grave, a funeral house is built and equipped with properties for the deceased such as suitcase, rice basket, liquor drinking straw, bowls and chopsticks. At the front of the grave, a 3-4 meter pole is erected and hung atop with a wooden bird and a shirt of the deceased’s spouse.

   In the KHANG’s concepts, each person has five souls. After death, a sou remains in the house, one goes to the fields, one settles at the stump of the tree which is chopped down to make the coffin, one lives in the funeral house and the rest flies to the sky. The late parents become the house’s spirits who are worshipped on a wattle in a comer of the house. Once every year, a I the villagers hold the spirits of the heaven and the earth in veneration.

SEE MORE:
◊  The COMMUNITY of 54 ETHNIC GROUPS in Vietnam – Section 1.
◊  The BA NA Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The BO Y Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The BRAU Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The BRU-VAN KIEU Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The CHO RO Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The CO HO Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The CONG Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The CHUT Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The CHU RU Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The CHAM Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The DAO Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  The GIAY Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo): CONG DONG 54 Dan toc Viet Nam – Phan 1.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi BA NA  trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi BO Y trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi BRAU trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi BRU-VAN KIEU  trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi CHO RO trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi CHAM trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi CHU RU trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi CHUT trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi CONG trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi DAO trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi GIAY trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi GIA RAI trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi HOA trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio):  Nguoi KHANG trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊  etc.

BAN TU THU
08 /2020

NOTES:
¹ : … updating…

NOTE:
◊  Source & Images:  54 Ethnic Groups in Vietnam, Thong Tan Publishers, 2008.
◊  All citations and italic textes has been set by Ban Tu Thu – thanhdiavietnamhoc.com