The LA HU Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam
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The LA HU are also called Xa La vang Co Xung Khu Sjng and Kha Quy. Now the LA HU have more than 7,561 inhabitants living in Muong Te District of Lai Chau Province1. The La Hu language belongs to the Tibeto-Burmese group2.
In the former days the LA HU lived mainly on slash-and-bum cultivation, hunting and gathering with rudimentary tools including knives and hoes. In some recent decades, the LA HU have cultivated rice in submerged fields and on milpas as their staple food and used buffaloes as traction. La Hu men are very skilful in makirg rattan chairs, trays, mats and flat baskets. Most of them know how to practice blacksmithing.
The LA HU set up villages on mountain slopes. They have adopted a sedentary life and some La Hu villages have moved to the lowland. To replace their old temporary houses, they have built steadier houses, mostly on the ground, and divided by bamboo partitions. In the Interior, the ancestral altar and kitchen are always placed at the bedroom-compartment of the family owner.
La Hu men wear dress like that of other ethnic groups in the Northwest. Women wear trousers and a long-lap shirt falling to their ankles In ordinary days and put on a short vest in festive days. The collar, chest stripes and sleeves are either embroidered or sewn wtth colorful pieces of cloth, silver or tin coins and red tassels.
In a La Hu family, the right of inheritances is resened for sons only, it is customary that young men and women are free to choose their partners and decide their marriage. After the wedding the groom has to live with his wife’s family for 2-3 years before taking his wife to his house. La Hu women give birth at their bedroom. Three days later, the baby will be given a true rame. But if an unexpected guest comes in the meantime, he or she is given the honor of naming the newborn.
A dead person is placed in the nollowed-out tree trunk. Neither tomb-house nor protective fence are built on the grave. The La Hu worship their dead parents only. Differences are observed among the date of worshipping ceremonies and votive offerings chosen by the La Hu subgroups.
Every year, THE LA HU hold ceremonies to worship the genie of the earth to pray for peace, adore the genie of wind, conjure up the souls of com and rice after sowing and harvesting and worship the founder of blacksmithing.
The LA HU preserve a dozen of pan-pipe dances. Generally the young people like to play pan-pipe with sound-box. Songs are sung in the Ha Nhi language with their own rhythms. The LA HU possess a rich treasury of ancient tales and their own calendar in which the days are defined corresponding to 12 animals including tigers rabbits, dragons, lice, horses, sheep, monkeys, roosters, dogs, pigs, squirrels and buffaloes.
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.
◊ Vietnamese version (vi-VersiGoo) with Web-Voice (Web-Audio): Nguoi KHMER trong Cong dong 54 Dan toc anh em o Viet Nam.
◊ etc.
BAN TU THU
08 /2020
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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