Cho Ro ethnic group’s Long House is going to be inaugurated
Posted Date: 20/07/2011
Mr. Huynh Van Toi – Member of the provincial Standing Party Committee, Head of the provincial Commission for Popularization and Education and Deputy Head of the provincial Steering Committee for major holidays presided over the meeting and discussed the preparatory work for the inauguration ceremony of the Cho Ro ethnic group’s Long House in Phu Ly commune (Vinh Cuu district) with concerned agencies, committees and sectors. The ceremony is expected to take place for two days, June 29 and 30.
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Cho Ro
ethnic group’s Long House in Phu Ly |
Cho Ro ethnic
group’s Long House in Phu Ly (which started its construction in December, 2008)
is the project to welcome the 310th anniversary of Bien Hoa - Dong Nai. The
construction work has been finished and the display of historical objects is being
prepared. The classes teaching how to use gongs have been given to Cho Ro ethnic
group’s children. The inauguration ceremony will take place with ethnic groups’
rituals: burning incense, putting up bamboo sticks, entering the new house and
so on in accordance with their custom. Before the ceremony, there will be
culinary activities such as grinding cake, grinding rice, cooking rice, cooking
“xoi cu nan” – sticky rice cooked with dioscorea tubers (family
dioscoreaceae), grilling “la bep”- a type of
wild vegetables, drinking “ruou can” – wine drunk from jars through pipes and
other music activities: gong performance, folk song singing and traditional
dance performance.
On this
occasion, the provincial People’s Committee will officially offer Cho Ro ethnic
group in Phu Ly two sets of gongs for display in the Long House. After being
brought into operation, the House not only restores traditional cultural values
and activities of Cho Ro ethnic groups but is one of the highlights of the
cultural ecotourist system of Vinh Cuu district.
(Source from Dong Nai
newspaper, Translated by Duy Minh)