This is a festival held in the New Year, starting a year of production with traditional folk rituals imbued with the unique cultural identity of the upland people of Quy Chau district, the province. Nghe An.
The festival was started with the ceremony of worshiping the gods performed by the prestigious people in the village for a new year of favorable rain, wind, good harvest, and the people unite to emulate real labor. export, build a prosperous and prosperous life.
People here said, when a new crop began, people in the communes of Quy Chau district pulled together in the middle of a field or a large area next to the field to organize the Song Tong festival to give birth to. Thank God for blessing the good crops, praying for a good New Year, favorable wind, all things flourishing, cattle, pigs and chickens full of cages, corn and corn full of houses, everyone is in good luck. have a warm and happy life, successful descendants.
The most sacred and important rituals are the worshiping of the earth, the god of the sky, the god of the mountain, the god of a mountain, a stream, and the ancestors established the Muong village.
At the end of the ceremony, the local leaders conducted a very brief speech highlighting the achievements of agricultural production in the past year, targets of agricultural production plans in the coming year, and launching emulation. produce the successful winter-spring crop. Everyone happily went down to the field to plant the seedlings at the beginning of the year in the drums, gongs, carved busy beds. After the ceremony is the assembly. This is the part that attracts the most participants with traditional folk games such as playing gongs, carving beds, jumping stalls, throwing, singing Xuat, Lam, Nhuon reciprocating with men and women, dancing in a round. group...The long Tong Festival is the most typical cultural activity, containing many unique artistic and cultural values of Thai ethnic people in Quy Chau district (Nghe An).