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IIn the Pôồn Pôông Performances of the Mường ethnic group, Thanh Hóa; The Pôồn Pôông in Mường language means "playing with flowers". Pôồn Pôông is a type of folk song, a ritual, a spirit that is both a matchmaking event between young men and women and a prayer for blessings.
The performances of the Mường is held in the third lunar month every year to pray for prosperity, happiness, and faithful love. The performances consists of two parts, the ritual and the festival. At the ritual, the shaman will use verse to inform the gods that this year's harvest will be bountiful, to express gratitude to heaven and earth for giving favorable weather and wind, to make people happy, and to invite the ancestors and kings to come and enjoy. The performances and folk games take place enthusiastically: the scene of villagers chasing fierce tigers, catching fish, cockfighting, buffalo fighting, flower dancing, flower fortune telling... At the end of the festival, boys and girls ask for a flower branch to bring home for good luck.
The Pôồn Pôông Performances is attractive because of the ingenuity of the cotton makers and is an opportunity for everyone to review the heroic history of a nation. |
