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Xoe Dancing Festival in Ta Chai
Time: The 15th day of the first
lunar month.
Place: Ta Chai Commune, Bac Ha
District, Lao Cai Province.
Objects of worship: Agriculture
Deity (administer of fields and
gardens).
Characteristics: Xoe dancing of the
Tay.
Xoe Festival in Ta Chai is the
spring festival of the Tay to pray
for good crop, full of grains and
rice. The ritual is rather simple
with a tray of offerrings put at the
foot of a neu tree which show the
sincerity of villagers to the god of
farming. After the magician observes
rituals, the whole of the village
take part in dancing of xoe in the
boisterous sounds of gong, drum with
many special styles of dance such
as: xoe in group, xoe in couple, xoe
in four person, xoe greeting...
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