The NGAI Community of 54 Ethnic groups in Vietnam

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    The NGAI population is 7,386 inhabitants who settled in Quang Ninh1, Bac Giang2, Lang Son3, Cao Bang4, Thai Nguyen5 and Ho Chi Minh City. The Ngai community consists of local subgroups: Ngai Hac Ca, Sin, Dan, and Le. Their common denomination is San Ngai (mountaineers). The Ngai language belongs to the Han group.

   The NGAI live mainly on rice cultivation. Those who live in sea islands or along the coastal regions engage in fishing. The NGAI have tradition of digging canals, building dams and water reservoirs, and banking up sea dykes. Mat-making bamboo screen making blacksmithing carpentry, lime, tile and brick-baking are their sidelines.

   The NGAI wear costume in the same way with the Hoa (or Han). They wear various kinds of hats made from palm leaves and rattan, or put on scarves and umbrellas. The Ngai villages are founded on the hillsides, in valleys or along the coast. The house consists of three compartments and two lean-tos. Patriarchy is the main rule in a family. Girls are not divided inheritance after their parents’ death. They must come to live In their husband’s house after marriage.

  Marriage comprises two steps: betrothal and wedding ceremonies. The boy’s family always chooses a girl for their son. In pregnancy, Ngai women must practise carefully many taboos: not eating snail, beef and goat; not sewing or buying clothes. Sixty days after the first birth and 40 days with second birth, the woman is permitted to come back to visit her parents’ home.

   It is customary that if a person dies, funeral is carefully organized. After the burial, a rtte is continuously held on the 21st day, 35± day, 42nd day, 49th day, 63rd day and 70th day. Three years late’, another rite will be held to leave off mourning. Water burial is practiced in some places. The NGAI have great respect for the cult of ancestors, souls and genles. All families have ancestral altar, all hamlets have temples and pagodas. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddnism have deeply infuenced the life of the Ngai people.

   The NGAI preserve love duets called suong co. Young couples can sing in five to seven consecutive nights that the verses are not repeated. In their proverbs and sayings the advices of production experience and ways of living can be found. Other entertainments are much liked by the people including lion-dance, stick-dance and follow-my-leader game.

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The Ngai is drying the sticed manioc (Source: VNA Publishers)

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

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