Flowers in the Tay people's songs are flowers that are showing off their fragrance and color, so the fragrance must be the most fragrant and the color must be the most beautiful. Is it true that with all the fragrance and color of flowers like that, the human soul loves flowers and life even more passionately?
In the spring, every time going to the fields, suddenly seeing a cluster of small, pretty, simple bjoóc phon flowers spreading fragrance along the edge of the forest, people's hearts suddenly feel strangely peaceful. After Tet, along the small stream leading to the Tay village, the red cotton and vông flowers bloom as if to dispel the cold of the mountainous region. Flowers are so beautiful and familiar that why can't the Tay people not have a lot of affection for flowers. For the Tay people, flowers are not only for looking at, to beautify the mountains and forests, but flowers are also for conveying feelings, to cleanse the soul to become more elegant. The phac phan flower is the flower of the ideal, symbolizing noble beauty, the flower of dreams about love and happiness, that's why it is so magically beautiful. For the Tay people, the cluster of khao quang flowers on the top of the high mountain symbolizes sustainable vitality, faith and courage.
Flowers have such significance in the lives of the Tay people. Indeed, if you do not attend the Hai festival, do not listen to the Luon song, you will not be able to enjoy so many beautiful flowers and even less understand that each flower is a dear friend of the people of this mountainous region. Many of those flowers are forever imprinted in people's hearts, so that with hundreds of beautiful flowers of the mountains and forests, they form the souls of our people.
On the second day of the festival, all the flowers growing along the stream, blooming on the ground, blooming on the top of the high mountains... that the Tay people love, are picked by them to make lanterns and flowers to offer to the respectful Mother Moon. Loving and cherishing the flowers of one's homeland is an expression of love for the nature of one's homeland, a manifestation of the beauty in the soul of the Tay people.
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2.3.2.2. Love of the moon helps the soul of the Tay people in Thach An - Cao Bang become more beautiful.
Along with flowers is the moon. The moon has always been beautiful and romantic, the moon in the mountains and forests, in the middle of a charming landscape, is even more beautiful. In the mountains, turning away is a high rocky mountain, returning is a valley, going up is a pass, going down is a slope... the moon rises or sets behind the mountain. The first crescent moon of the month rises on the top of the autumn mountain as beautiful as a watercolor painting. The full moon is round and round like a silver plate hanging suspended on the top of an ancient nghien tree at the beginning of the village. The bright moon makes the lullaby of gibbons lull their babies more intoxicating, the call of the precious queng bird calling for its mate more anxious, the call of the jungle fowl gradually rises... making the heart of the Tay boy restless and unable to sleep. A talented Tay artist has compared:
Two cages of western flags full of question marks, Fate is always in the dark, isn't it?
Pandemic:
The moon sets in the west like a question mark, the night sky is filled with longing for you.
Living in the middle of the year-round dark and quiet mountains and forests, the moon has become
The soul mate and grateful friend of the Tay people. The moon is deeply attached to the people and so are the people. They look at the moon, reflect on the moon to see themselves in it, to purify their souls to make them brighter and clearer.
No one remembers when the moon entered Tay poetry and Tay culture. A long time ago, the Tay people held a separate festival for the moon, called the Moon Lady Festival. That festival further affirmed the honor and exaltation of the moon's role in the life of the community. In the daily consciousness of the Tay people as well as on festival days, the moon became a god to whom they sent prayers for good harvests and to let the moon light up in them a belief in life.
In Luon Hai, the Moon is always associated with beauty. The Moon is born from the root of a flower, the root of a bud, the most beautiful place in the universe. The Moon incarnates into flowers, into beauty:
Chang'e holds a lonely bud in the cup Chang'e holds a lonely flower in the cup
Pandemic:
Chang'e is at the root of the bud, and Chang'e is at the root of the flower.
Or there is a variant:
Two lonely buds of the Ha Du Cup Two lonely flowers of the Ha Du Cup.
Pandemic:
Hai Ha at the root of the bud then return Hai Ha at the root of the flower then return .
People love and cherish the moon, which is shown through the way they
People call the moon Mother Moon, Hai Ha, Hang Nga, Bong Nguyet or Mother Goddess, Ut Noi... The moon is called like that to show people's love, respect, and gratitude for nature, considering the moon as a tolerant mother, protecting humanity.
From the deep love for the moon, the moon above, sometimes full, sometimes waning, of nature, has been sanctified by the people, becoming a deity in their spiritual life.
Peaceful with nature, loving the moon, so in the festival of Nang Hai, people offer the moon the most beautiful things in the world, which are flowers. Let's follow the footsteps of our compatriots in finding flowers to offer to the Moon Mothers:
The baby is still in the bath
The new season is coming, the new season is coming, the new season is coming, the flower-dressing girl is smiling
Pandemic:
Riec Me, The flower skewer, the skewer of the flower ...
The fields are full of flowers in Na Chuong and Na Giao. The fields are full of flowers in the rainy season.
The rain is pouring down, the wind is blowing, the rain is blowing up, the wind is blowing up ... wind is blowing up, the wind is blowing up, the wind
The devil's roar is coming The devil's roar is coming
The beans are sprouting from the Lung Phay The beans are sprouting from the Linh Dan needle
The nose is bouncy and the lips are soft. The lips are bouncy and the lips are full. The lips are soft and round. The lips are soft and round.
This flower is picked from the high mountains, inviting us to climb up to the sky.
The harvest ceremony invites the Ladies and Mothers to see hundreds of flowers and hundreds of buds. These flowers are picked from Muong Luong.
This flower is picked from Na Chuong, Na Giao. This flower is picked from the harvest season.
This flower was picked long ago and preserved.
This flower is picked from the abyss This flower is picked from the high mountains and deep abyss This bud is picked from February
This flower is picked in Lung Vai, Lung Phjec. This flower smells of elixir.
This flower has a sweet scent of lavender. This flower is a flower of peace.
Blooming in January with brilliant colors
The places mentioned in the poem are dense: Muong Lu, Muong Luong, Na Chuong, Na Giai ... making the reader think of the tireless footsteps of people going all over the world to find precious and beautiful flowers, bring them to the flower festival and offer them to Mother Hang Nga. Not only that, they pick flowers, offer flowers with all their sincerity and pure souls:
The banana tree is a big tree with a lot of branches. The banana tree is a big tree with many branches.
Slimming down the menu.
Pandemic:
When picking flowers, don't touch the turtle. When picking buds, don't talk back to the turtle mother. Red flowers shine on the face.
White cotton shines into the heart.
That's why early in the morning on the main festival day, only young girls
beautiful, young people are allowed to go into the forest to pick flowers to offer to the Mother Goddesses.
Beautiful flowers have taken a lot of effort to bring back to the festival, but people also have to bathe the flowers with sacred water to make them more fragrant, more beautiful, and free from worldly dust. Only then will Mother Moon agree, the prayers for the harvest will be effective, and people will be able to express all their love for the moon. That sacred water is not available in the mortal world, but can only be obtained in the fairyland:
The West is a deep-rooted noodle soup.
Mom! The flowers are blooming all over the place.
Pandemic:
Mom! You are the first to get married.
The sacred Au Nam flower, the sacred Au Nam flower, the sacred Sa Nam god, the sacred Sa Nam flower
The bouquet of flowers and the vase.
Go to the place where there is a clear water mine.
Horse, come up to the king's pond to bathe in the flowers. Horse, come up to the fairy well to bathe in the flowers.
Take holy water to bathe flowers, to make buds fragrant. Find holy water to bathe buds, to bathe flowers
Find the sacred pond to bathe in flowers and buds.
In Tay cultural life, the image of a water well has a special meaning.
special. The water well is the common source of drinking water for the whole village, a symbol of solidarity, pure and noble relationships between people. The Tay people, from respecting the water well, idealize the clear water well. The clear water well flowing from the foot of the thousand-year-old silent rocky mountain is respectfully called by folk authors as "fairy well", "king pond", "divine pond", so the water taken from there is also "sacred water", "divine water". Only such precious water is worthy of being brought back to bathe flowers and buds to make them white and pure, and then it can be offered to Mother.
During the Nang Hai festival, the villagers offer flowers to Mother Moon. Among the myriad of flowers that people offer to Mother Nature, there are real flowers that bloom in the mountains and sky such as the Dam flower, the Phon flower..., and there are flowers that are only in the imagination of the people. But there is another thing that the villagers also offer to the upper world, which does not give off a strong fragrance, does not exude a spiritual flavor, but is filled with the kind heart of people. It is not a flower but is respectfully called a flower (Bjoóc).
are the offerings that people offer to the mothers in the fairyland. The offerings are the creative products of human hands, strength and intelligence. At the beginning of the year, people ask Mother Moon for seeds and seedlings. In order not to disappoint the kindness of Mother Nature, they work hard from dawn to dusk to make the rice and corn plants grow, bloom and bear fruit. After the harvest, they save the round, plump, fragrant golden sticky rice grains and the most beautiful and best animals to offer to Mother Moon:
The brain is like a rock, the mouth is like a plug, the brain is like a needle, the brain is like a needle
The brain of the fish is like a fish in the sea.
...
The rooster brain is swollen and puffy.
Pandemic:
Offer a bunch of sticky rice cakes
Offering a tray of five-colored and seven-colored raspberries Offering a golden chicken by the stream
Offering a chicken by the stream
...
Offer the rice cake and the horn.
The Tay people in the past and present often have cakes on important holidays.
Sticky rice, chicken... to put on the offering tray to make it fuller, more beautiful and more meaningful. The offering items are the essence of the earth, the essence of heaven, of the fragrant human heart, so they deserve to be called flowers. Having the items, they offer them to Mother, earnestly inviting Mothers to "eat flowers, eat buds". The special meaning of this ritual is not in the material aspect but in the spiritual aspect. The food here has been sanctified. Mothers "eat flowers, eat buds" as if to receive and understand the hearts of mortals - hearts as beautiful as flowers.
It can be said that not only the Tay people know how to love the moon, but in fact, that noble and pure feeling is expressed very uniquely by them. From the love for the moon, the Tay people have personified the moon, honoring the moon as a goddess who guides, protects, supports and brings luck to the people. Although the way of looking, feeling and expressing that love is simple and naive, it is worth us learning and thinking. The beauty of their souls is revealed so naturally through the love for the moon, so that today and tomorrow, the love affair between humans and nature cannot end.
For a long time, the Tay people have longed for and nurtured a pure spiritual beauty with the scent of flowers and leaves in the forest; with the dawn on young buds, the stars in the sky, the bright moon... Someone once said, if you want to know the soul of the Tay people, read and listen to their folk songs. Those songs flow silently, as quietly as the flow of time. Until now, Luon Hai is still full of and deeply emotional. Until now, the love of nature, living in harmony with nature of the Tay people is still a beauty that is worth cherishing and preserving.
2.3.3. The song Luon Hai honors the strength and beauty of the Tay people in Thach An - Cao Bang
The mountainous land with beautiful landscapes and rivers has given birth to strong, hard-working, talented people. They are the owners of the mountains and forests, the flowers of the land. They have stood proudly on this land, worked diligently, created material values and many lasting spiritual values. Luon Hai is a spiritual product born from such people.
Luon Hai has the nature of a song praying for a good harvest, sung in the Nang Hai festival to highlight the role of nature in agricultural production. Besides, this folk song also deeply expresses the Tay people's attitude of honoring the strength and beauty of human beings.