To contribute to the preservation and promotion of cultural identities, the Boarding Ethnic High School in Quang Nam province’s Phuoc Son upland district has organized the New-season festival - a big event of Bh’noong people in the district.
For last seven years, the festival held by the Phuoc Son district’s Boarding Ethnic High School has become a great event of the school’s teachers and pupils with many activities including gong dances, competitions of snail-shaped cake wrapping and sticky rice in bamboo grilling, folk games, etc.
According to the Principal of the high school Phạm Thị Thứ, the organization of the festival in the school aims to educate the pupils the preservation and promotion of cultural identities of ethnic groups, strengthen the solidarity among pupils and create warm atmosphere as at home for students of the boarding school.
Bh’noong people account for more than 60 percent of the district’s population and reside mainly in communes of Phuoc My, Phuoc Hiep, Phuoc Nang and Phuoc Xuan. The New-season festival is usually held during a period from the end of the 9th month to the beginning of the 11th lunar month with dedicating worshipping and praying rituals for a bumper harvest, good weather and health for all villagers.
DT (baodantoc.com.vn)
