The new rice celebration aims to say thanks to deities for giving villagers a good harvest and a comfortable life. The Ba Na ethnic group often holds the festival after rice harvest. This is an opportunity for the group’s members to rest, enjoy the fruits of their labor and pray for good health, and the next bumper crop.

The People’s Army Newspaper would like to introduce several photos of the new rice celebration of the Ba Na ethnic people.

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Preparing offerings to deities
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The village patriarchs thank deities for giving the villagers a bumper crop.
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Ba Na women make green rice flakes with new rice.
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Local people play the gongs and dance to celebrate the new rice.
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Tasting ruou can (alcohol brewed from yeast of forest leaves, tubers, and fruits in jugs and drunk with cane tubes) during the celebration.

Translated by Song Anh