Two priests tested the safety of the swing game
"Khu Gia Gia" or "Kho Gia Gia" in black Ha Nhi language means: "Successful harvest". This is the festival to pray for seasons and also the biggest festival of the year for the Ha Nhi people. The Ha Nhi people organize this festival to worship and pay tribute to the gods who protect crops and lush crops.
According to the legend of the Ha Nhi people, heavenly deities have come to earth to play seesaw and swing, from then to the festival "Khu Gia Gia" Ha Nhi people make a swing and a swing. New seesaw is used first as a place of worship and then for local people to have fun and entertainment.
Not only that, in the culture of the Ha Nhi people, swinging and seesaw also show the traditional meaning. These two games need both male and female sides as symbols of yin and yang harmony for all living things to flourish, that's why the swing and the seesaw are indispensable in the festival. The "Khu Gia Gia"of the Ha Nhi people. Along with the dances, the festival also has a number of folk games such as rope swing, seesaw, love-love singing, lion dance, leaf-blowing, demonstrating traditional characteristics in cultural life. of the Ha Nhi in Y Ty commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, Vietnam
PHẠM THÀNH NGHIỆP, Viet Nam, Hai Duong
