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Tugging Rituals and Games
Description 7. Tugging the cord back (in Hương Canh festival , the Việt people in Hương Canh village, Vĩnh Phúc Province)
Place Tugging rituals and games are widely practiced by communities in rice cultivation culture in East and Southeast Asia, with a desire for good weather, good harvests or predictions related to success or failure of a crop. The scale of organizing tugging rituals and games, either at local or national level, depends on each member country. Tugging rituals and games of Vietnam are concentratedly practiced in the midlands, Red River Delta and North Central known as the cradle of wet rice civilization in such provinces as Vĩnh Phúc, Bắc Ninh and Hanoi city where the Việt people have been residing for a long time. In addition, the element is practiced regularly by ethnic groups such as the Tày, the Tai and the Giáy of Lào Cai province in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam, who were inherently rice farmers in history. File Size 666 KB
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