Distinctive Lunar New Year customs of Muong people in Phu Tho

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Muong women gather to prepare traditional food such ban chung, banh ong, com lam, reflecting the spirit of family reunion and a cherished cultural practice of the Muong community during the Lunar New Year. (Photo: VNA)
Elderly Muong women gather to wrap banh chung and banh ong, reflecting the spirit of family reunion and a cherished cultural practice of the Muong community during the Lunar New Year. (Photo: VNA)
Elderly Muong women gather to wrap banh chung and banh ong, reflecting the spirit of family reunion and a cherished cultural practice of the Muong community during the Lunar New Year. (Photo: VNA)
The Lunar New Year feast features purple-tinted com lam (bamboo-cooked sticky rice) made from newly harvested glutinous rice dyed with fragrant forest leaves. (Photo: VNA)
A unique custom still maintained during the Muong people’s Lunar New Year is sac bua singing. This is a New Year blessing performance by a group that goes from house to house in the first days of the year, singing songs of good wishes. (Photo: VNA)
A unique custom still maintained during the Muong people’s Lunar New Year is sac bua singing. This is a New Year blessing performance by a group that goes from house to house in the first days of the year, singing songs of good wishes. (Photo: VNA)
Distinctive Lunar New Year customs of Muong people in Phu Tho
Lunar New Year, also known as the traditional New Year of the Muong ethnic group, has long been a distinctive cultural custom imbued with strong humanistic values, preserved and passed down through generations of the Muong community in Phu Tho province. For the Muong people, this is the biggest and most important festival of the year, a sacred moment for descendants to pay tribute to their ancestors and heaven and earth, and to pray for peace and prosperity in the year ahead.