Festival ancestral please protect fields, shifting from La Chi

Celebration transplants done and ask the ancestors protect fields, shifting from La Chi takes place in July every year. With ethnic La Chi, this is the biggest festival of the year, people invited their ancestors back from the first day, on July Thirteen ancestors farewell ceremony on his dwelling place price. However, elements of the festival association remaining only in the mind of each member, marking a migration process from one ethnic group certain stage.

Previously, in July, ethnic La Chi usually worshiped ancestors, singing, games in the vacant post, but now, instead of the cocktail party. According to some seniors, the main reason leading to the size reduction of the festival is due to immigrants incomplete as a family, without him, “then” represent each family, less populated, not have a fun community, lack of props, musical instruments …

Festival ancestral please protect fields, shifting from La Chi starting day of A July. At first, people invited their ancestors celebrated Mass on food festival and have fun with children and grandchildren. Before, rituals held at the home of family heads. The plate is placed at the altar ceremony ancestors, the shaman (possibly the landlord) reading content offerings “… day of July A ghost invited to drink, one year only once, to his year the rice please, please go sowing rice, wheat fed to care for good, for sure grain rice, the grain seed cotton … “.

Thirteen days to the end of July, the children continue to wheels off ceremony ancestors on his dwelling place price. Trays sacrifice nothing changed from the first day, oracles dressed in their daily activities, sitting in position and professed by content: “Today is the day … Thirteen July this year the rice fields, their upland rice looks good, does well to cotton, not eating leaf worm, not the stem borer, rice paddy is a clump clump flashed a … “./.