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THÁI NGUYÊN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Assoc. Professor NGUYỄN HẰNG PHƯƠNG Faculty of Vietnamese Email: [email protected] Tel: 0915.363.229 CULTURE OF VIETNAMESE ETHNIC MINORITIES THÁI NGUYÊN, 2013

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THÁI NGUYÊN UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Assoc. Professor NGUYỄN HẰNG PHƯƠNG

Faculty of Vietnamese Email: [email protected] Tel: 0915.363.229

CULTURE OF VIETNAMESE ETHNIC MINORITIES

THÁI NGUYÊN, 2013

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CONTENT

CHAPTER 2

CUSTOMS

(WEDDING &

FUNERAL)

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 3

CUISINE

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CHAPTER1CHAPTER1

INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION

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1.1. Basic terms (khai niêm cơ ban)

- Culture = system of physical and mental values mankind >< nature &

society.

-Nation (dân tôc) = a community which includes many ethnic groups, each

with its own language, lifestyle, and cultural heritage.

-Ethnic (tôc ngươi) = a smaller community within a nation, which has its own

language and customs.

However, in many cases, it is possible to use the word ‘dân tôc’ (nation) to

refer to an ethnic group.

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1. 2. Some main characteristics (Một số đặc điểm cơ ban)

1.2.1. Number

- 54 ethnic groups (53 ethnic minorities).

Population:

-5 ethnic minorities> 1 million people (Tày, Thái, Mương, Khme, Mông);

-5 ethnic minorities< 1 million people (Si La, Pu Péo, Rơmăm, Brâu, Ơ

Đu)

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1.2.2. Distribution (Tinh chât cư tru)

1.2.2.1. Co-habitation forms cultural regions (Cư tru xen ke)

- The ethnic minorities often inhabit together with others in an area (province,

district).

E.g: There is even 20 ethnic groups within a district.

- In each area, there is 1 or 2 groups with higher development level, which play the

main role in establishing a cultural region. Ethnic minorities mostly live in 5

regions.

- Within a region, there are sub-regions. In each sub-region, there is a centered

ethnic group which might be the centered ethnic group of the whole region or

another one

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6 cultural regions:

1. The Northwest (Thái, Mường)

2. The Northeast (Vi t Băc: Tày, Nùng)ê

3. The North Delta (Việt)

4. The Central (Trung B : Việt, Chăm)ô

5. The Central Highland (Tây Nguyên: Mon-Khmer Groups)

6. The South Delta (Việt, Chăm, Hoa and native groups such as Khmer, Mạ, Xtiêng,

Chơro, Mnông...)

Việt (Kinh): deltas. Ethnic minorities: other areas.

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1.2.2.2. Effect of co-habitation (Hê qua cua cư tru xen ke)

- Advantages (Thuân lơi):

+ Share each other’s techniques and good customs strengthen the

union.

+ Form multi-cultural areas for cultural tourism.

-Disadvantages (Kho khăn):

Social management: Disagreements between different ethnic groups,

which origin from the differences in religions and customs.

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1.2.3. Specific territorial distribution (Vi tri cư tru cu thê)

-Most ethnic minorities live in border parts and other area which

are very important in terms of the nation’s economy, politics,

defense and environment.

- 3 minority groups: the deltas (Kinh, Hoa, Chăm)

- 50 other groups: the midland and the mountainous areas.

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* Importance of the distribution of ethnic minorities (vai trò địa bàn cư tru)

- Kinh tế: the ethnic minorities live in the border part, coastal area and

forest, which are very important to foreign trade, agriculture and mine

industry.

-Politics and Defense: It’s important to maintain the peace and

development in the border parts most Vietnamese feudal dynasties

have their own policies to strengthen the relationship to ethnic minority

leaders:

+ wedding

+ office and title

+ Viet (Kinh) officials

- Environment: Ethnic minorities live in forest area/coastal area

important forest/coastal environment protection

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1.2.4. Time of inhabitation (Về thời gian sinh tu ở Viêt Nam)

- Native groups: Việt (Kinh), Mương, Tày, Chăm

- Early time A.D – 19th century: Hoa

-7th – 13th century: Lự, Thái, Nùng

-…

Though ethnic minorities came to VN at different times, they has been

maintaining a tradition of co-operating in national building and defense.

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1.2.5. Cultural characteristics (Về văn hoa)

Culture = tangible culture heritage + intangible culture heritage

-Economy: self-sufficient economy (agriculture: cassava/corn/rice

cultivation)

-Administration: village (làng/bản/buôn) is the basic unit; some others (Thái,

Mương) apply a larger administrative system (mương: mương > village).

-Religion: mostly polytheism.

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CHAPTER 2:CHAPTER 2:

CUSTOMS OF VIETNAMESECUSTOMS OF VIETNAMESEETHNIC MINORITIES ETHNIC MINORITIES

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2.1. Introduction (Khai quat vê phong tuc): customs = diversified

* Economy:

- hunting + gathering + cultivation (rice/corn/cassava + veg.)

Some cultivates in terraced fields (Mông, Pu Péo, Phù Lá….)

Some: wet fields (Chăm, Hoa, Tày…)

- Some traditional crafts: pottery (Chăm, Khơ me, Hoa), textile weaving

(Khơ me, Tà ôi...), bamboo weaving (Thái, Cống, La Chí, La Hủ...).

- Goods transportation: human/boat/horse carry goods to trade. Popular:

human-carrying.

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* Lifestyle (Vê sinh hoạt - ăn, ở, mặc)

- Cuisine: chapter 3.

-Clothes:

+The Northeast + Northwest: women wear dresses, men

wear shirts and trousers.

+ The Central and the Central Highland: women wear

dresses, men wear loin-cloth….

- House: Popular: stilt house (from wood); a few: ground house (from

bamboo or soil).

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* Social relationships (Vê quan hê xã hội)

-Most ethnic minorities use village as the basic administrative unit, in which

the leader is a respectful elder.

-In some ethnic community: gap between rich & poor

-Some ethnic minorities: maternal society (Chu - ru, Cơ – ho, Ê – đê, Gia –

rai, Khơ – me, Ba – na, Khơ - mú....). Some in the transition from maternal

society paternal one (Chơ – ro, Giẻ Triêng...)

* Rites of passage (wedding, childbirth, funeral): following parts

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2.2. Marriage (Hôn nhân)

Purpose: tight the relationships between couples, families and clans.

2.2.1. Giới thiệu khái quát

- Decide: parents, head of the clan.

- Depending in the system (paternal/maternal) the bride/bridegroom’s family

organize and pay for the wedding. Maternal society: bridegroom live with the bride’s

family. Some: respectively live with bride’s family and bridegroom’s one.

- Most ethnic minorities forbid cousins to get married. Some allow (Bru Vân Kiều, Tà –

ôi, Cơ – tu, Gia – rai, Ê – đê).

- Most: couples are free to marry their lovers. Some groups create ‘wife/husbad

kidnapping’ to allow couples overcome social/financial obstacles.

- Wedding procedure: engagement ceremony, wedding, report ceremony (visit bride’s

parents)

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2.2.2. Some wedding styles

2.2.2.1. Wedding ceremony of the Tay (Đám cưới của người Tày)

- Ceremonies: Greeting, engagement, New Year gift giving, wedding time

selection, wedding day, taking the bride, accompanying the bride to

bridegroom’s house.

- Cost: paid by bridegroom’s family show gratefulness to bride’s parents

- Meals:

+ 4 - 5 p.m: for elders

+ 7 - 8 p.m: young people (couple’s friends). Everyone stays after

the meals to talk/drink/play games/sing all night.

     

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- Taking the bride:

+ Party: quan lang (male matchmaker), pả mẻ (female

matchmaker), bridegroom, 2 best men, a young girl and some young,

unmarried people who carry the presents.

+ Presents: 100 green cakes, 400 white cakes, 2 big white cakes

(traditional cakes), 1 roast pig, 2 chicken, wine, trầu cau, 2 fishes, some

pork innards, a bag of seeds, some sugar, a red bag, a wet-dry cloth

bride’s parents

     

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- Receiving ceremony (Đon tiếp):

+ Greeting: bride-sided female matchmaker greets the party,

bridegroom-sided male matchmaker greets back.

+ Obstacle game: hanging rope/ laying the groom or leave a

cat at the door bridegroom-sided male matchmaker needs to sing

politely and cleverly to win over.

+ Present receiving Bow at the ancestor’s altar Wine

offering People give wishes to couple dinner together.

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Chăng dây trong đam cưới của người Tày(Hanging rope in wedding of the Tay)

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Búi toc ngươc trong lễ Tằng khẩu (đám cươi ngươi Thái)Upside down hair bunning in wedding of the Thai

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Mâm cỗ cươi của ngươi Bru Vân KiềuWedding meal in wedding of the Bru Van Kieu

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2.2.3. Funeral (Phong tuc tang ma cua đồng bào dân tộc thiêu số)

* Introduction (Giới thiệu chung)

- An important rite of passage to Vietnamese ethnic minorities shows

the love and respect towards the death.

- Differences:

+ Some ethnic minorities in the Northern mountainous area: fresh

funeral + dry funeral.

+ Some ethnic minorities in the South: grave-leaving

ceremony. Some provide meals and buffalo to the death.

+ Especially, some ethnic group in the Central Highland organize

big grave-leaving ceremony and build the new tomb for the death.

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Some typical funerals

(a) Dry funeral of the H’mong (Đám ma khô của ngươi Mông)

- Held 13 days after the fresh funeral (burying the death). The Mông

people believe that the death only recognizes that he/she was dead

already after 13 days. No annual anniversary for the death in Mông culture

dry funeral is the last ceremony to say goodbye to the death

important.

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- Careful preparation: : food + funeral facilities + announcement

+ The death’s family gathers relatives to drink and choose the

time for the dry funeral.

+ Invites the previous funeral band (priest, music band,

coffin carriers).

-Dry funeral:

+ Family members bow to the funeral band and offer them

wine.

+ Fake figure of the death wears the death’s clothes.

+ Priest does ceremony to deliver the death’s spirit to the

other world officially separate the livings and the death.

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Meanings of dry funeral

(Y nghia đám ma khô cua người Mông/Tày/Nùng):

- Explain about the salvation of the spirit in the other world belief:

universe = world of the living + world of the death

- Piety of the children to parents + sharing of the families member and

villagers to the death’s family strengthen the relationship within

community.

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Đám ma khô của ngươi Tày Cao Bằng Dry funeral of the Tay in Cao Bang

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(b) Grave-leaving ceremony of some ethnic minorities in the Central Highland

(Lễ bỏ mả của một số dân tộc miền Trung Tây Nguyên)

* Temporary tomb: a simple hut for the death. The death’s head is turned towards the sun’s

rising. Family members have to clean the hut and offer meals to the death regularly

Believe: the death’s spirit is still around the family members.

* Grave-leaving ceremony: rid of the temporary hut build a new, long-life tomb

Meanings:

- Sadness: last time to say goodbye to the death

- Joy: the livings pay full responsibility to the death. The death is no longer around to haunt

the family.

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- Time: 3-7 days + 1 month of preparation.

- New house grave (the Banar): two low roofs, no walls. Top:

decorated with bird, animal and man figures.

- Tomb statues (man, monkey, buffalo, bird…): wooden. Rough but

lively Highlanders believe the death’s spirit will possess the statues

statues become slaves of the death in the other world every

feeling of mankind (sadness, grief, happiness, worry) is expressed in

the statues’ faces. There are some sexual statues highlander

worship penis wish for fertility.

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Tượng nhà mồ ở Tây Nguyên Tomb statues in the Central Highland

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CHAPTER 3CHAPTER 3

CUISINE CULTURE OF VIETNAMESE CUISINE CULTURE OF VIETNAMESE ETHNIC MINORITIESETHNIC MINORITIES

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3.1. Introduction

-Use ingredients which are available in nature. clean, fresh and nutritious.

-Popular dishes: roast/steamed glutinous rice, glutinous rice cakes, roast/smoked

meat & fish.

- Spices and sauces: hạt dổi, mắc khén, húng rừng, mắc mât, mắc kham chẩm

chéo, nươc nhút...(from forest and garden).

- Wine: popular and important drink use in ceremonies, treat visitors.

Ingredients: corn/cassava/rice + ferment from forest leaves

Delicateness and flexibility in cuisine + thorough life stance

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3.2. Typical cuisine

3.2.1. Steamed sticky rice with ant’s eggs

of the Tay

* Ingredients: black ant’s egg, sticky rice,

special onion (củ kiệu), oil.

* Recipe:

-Steam the rice. Stir-fry onion with eggs

and spices. Stir everything together and

put some fried onion on top.

- Serve hot.

Steamed sticky rice with ant’s eggs

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3.2.2. 5-colored steamed sticky rice of

the Tay

* Ingredients: sticky rice, ginger leaves,

turmeric powder, special red leaves (la cơm

đỏ)

* Recipe: Steep rice and grind red leaves in

water red and purple steamed rice; Rice

+ turmeric yellow; red sticky rice

black. 5 different colors are put together in

the dish Five Elements Theory (kim, mộc,

thuỷ, hoả, thô - 5 elements which create

the universe)

Use in sacred ceremonies

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3.2.3. Khâu nhục of the Tay, Nung, Hoa

* Ingredients: belly pork, lá tầu soi (special pickled vegetables), black bean sauce,

soy sauce, garlic, húng liu

* Recipe: Boil the pork add spices roast. Fry purple potato. Mix pork fat,

aromatic mushroom, bean, egg together to make stuffing.

Put the pork and all the stuffing and spices together in the bowl and steam it in 5

hours.

Khâu nhuc

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2.2.4. Roasted moss of the Thai

* Ingredients: river moss, hạt dổi, hạt mắc khén (two special spices from forest),

pepper, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, lemon leaves + pork fat

* Recipe: Moss is taken from clean river. Mix moss with spices and fat. Use dong

leaves to cover the mixture. Put it in warm ash for a while roast it on burning

charcoal. Besides the special flavor of spices, the moss taste fresh and pure.

Rêu sông

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3.2.5. Thắng cố of the Mông (H’mong)

* Ingredients: Bones, inner organs of horse/ox, spices

* Recipe: Put all of ingredients into the boiling deep pan. Rid of the froth. Serve hot

with salt. Customers can have it together with homemade corn cakes. When some

friends join, they buy some wine to cheer up together.

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3.2.6. Tube wine (rượu cần) of the Mường in Hoà Bình

* Ingredients: Sticky rice, ferment from forest leaves, pottery vase

* Recipe and serving

- Specialty of Hòa Binh. The wine is made from rice and natural ferment safe &

great flavor.

- Wine is put in a vase and people drink it through bamboo tubes a wine for

drinking together. Tradition: drinking together + game + alternately singing

Tube wine culture community spirit 

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3.2.7. Mountain field pigs of the Central Highlanders

* Ingredients: naturally-raised pigs , parsley, coriander, lemon grass, pepper, salt..

* Recipe

- Pigs are raised naturally in mountain fields less fat + soft + juicy.

- These pigs can be spiced and roasted in two ways: roast barbecue sticks or

roast the whole pig.

Heo rẫy

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Măng rừng (măng lay, măng vầu)

Forest bamboo shoots

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Nậm Pịa ( a sauce made from buffalo/ox/horse/goat’s inner organs)

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Nước lèo thịt dêSoup made from goat meat (the Cham group)

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Lẩu la rừng Hotpot of forest vegetables

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Banh la ngai Cakes made from sticky rice and a vegetable

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Mèn mén (Steamed mash corn)

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Cơm lam (Sticky rice cooked in a bamboo tube)

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CONCLUSION

1. Co-operation of Vietnamese ethnic groups

- VN is a multi-ethnic country (54 groups: 53 ethnic minorities)

- The ethnic minorities share some similarities and well co-operate.

- Each have its unique cultural characteristics contribute to the diversity of VN culture .

2. Diversity and humanity of the culture of ethnic minorities

- Their cultural characteristics origin from the Southeast Asia environment and life stance

of the inhabitants.

- The diversity and humanity of the culture of ethnic minorities nourish the soul and

better the behavior of the people.

3. Preservation and application of the culture of ethnic minorities nowadays

-There are some factors in modern lifestyle which threaten the culture of ethnic minorities

VN authorities attention to preserve and apply those values.

- There are some customs of ethnic minorities which need to be removed/adjusted to

both reserve the good values of the culture and build up the progressive culture of the

whole nation.