Ooc Po Festival – Cultural Activities That Give Birth To And Develop Sli And Luon

Through this relationship, we can collect many Folklore documents in real life. However, in the process of collecting, we need to pay attention to the spiritual and religious factors of the people.

In fact, Folklore is extremely complex and vivid in different environments. The lyrics of the sli and luon songs of the Nung Phan Sling people collected by the author are works of folk literature, and the Ooc Po festival is a part of folk culture. There is a reciprocal relationship between them. The sli and luon melodies themselves are a cultural activity because in addition to the language, these melodies are also folk creations in terms of unique melody and rhythm, so each sli and luon song of the Nung Phan Sling people, in addition to its musical value, also has literary value. These works are "born" and "live" in real environments, in working life, in festivals. Through these folk literature works, we can fully understand the spiritual and cultural values of the Ooc Po festival, the wet rice agricultural culture of the people in the mountainous regions of Viet Bac.

In fact, in research, we also realize that folk culture and folk literature are always moving and changing. Research on folk culture and folk literature must always be based on many sources of documents, in which investigation and fieldwork will help us see the reality of folk culture life.

The Ooc Po Festival is a folk festival with great spiritual significance in the cultural life of the Nung Phan Slinh ethnic community in Hoa Binh commune. A festival that contains many cultural and artistic values. An important and indispensable part that creates the rich value as well as the appeal of the Ooc Po Festival is the presence of sli and luon songs. The Ooc Po Festival is also the performance environment that gives rise to, maintains and develops these folk melodies. Thus, sli, luon and the Ooc Po Festival have a close relationship.

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a close relationship, closely linked and inseparable. Here, studying the relationship between the Ooc Po festival and the sli and luon melodies is an attempt to help us not only stop at describing the festival but also point out the connection of the festival with folk literature compositions.

3.2.2. Ooc Po Festival - Cultural activities that give rise to and develop sli and luong

Spring, the season of festivals. After a year of hard work after a harvest, people eagerly come to the spring festivals, praying for a prosperous new year. Through the Ooc Po festival, individuals in the community and society are more closely connected, they come to the festival not only to have fun but also to exchange business experiences, to make friends and especially this is also an opportunity for young men and women to get to know each other and express their love. Those are the strong social bonds. During the festival, young men and women get to know each other through sli and luon sentences, which are ambiguous but full of meaning. It can be affirmed that the Ooc Po festival is a cultural activity, a living environment for sli and luon.

According to the book "Vietnamese Folklore" edited by author Dinh Gia Khanh:

“The life of folk literature is not a life in the form of text, the life of folk literature must be a life attached to a certain living environment of folk literature” [07;19].

Therefore, the life of folk literature is expressed in countless forms of activities, these forms of activities are as rich and diverse as the forms of activities in people's lives.

With the sli and luong of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh - Dong Hy - Thai Nguyen, the Ooc Po festival is a living environment and a source of nourishment for the sli and luong to exist and develop.

- In January, spring, I went out. In February, spring, I wandered. Walking for a few days, added a few months. Walking for a few days, added a few years.

Just walk from place to place Just walk from place to place

Travel more, learn more

puffy

During the "Ooc Po" festival, festival-goers, especially young people, often sing sli and luon verses to get acquainted, but with greeting songs, they praise spring, praise January, and then compete in response.

- Hey, let's go back to the village and talk about it now.

- Twelve months of hard work and fun at festivals.

(Sli response)

- In January of the next spring, the Phoenix flies back to the old beach.

- Two pairs of flies landed at the village gate.

Two pairs of flies return to perch on flower branches

- The most beautiful color, the second most beautiful color, the third most beautiful flower. The wish is to build a house that will last for ten thousand years.

(sli reply)

Through these songs, Nung boys and girls enter meaningful dates. The atmosphere of the festival is the creative condition, the motivation to stimulate creativity, the creative method, the artistic technique in the process of giving rise to sli and luon songs.

Likewise, author Dinh Gia Khanh commented:

“The folk literature environment not only creates a unique “atmosphere” for the reception of folk literature works, the living environment of folk literature is also the cause of a series of characteristics in the process of composing, performing and disseminating folk literature” [07;19].

The performance of sli and luon songs during the New Year's harvest prayer of the Nung Phan Slinh people is associated with certain times during the Festival. In particular, these songs are not only intended to satisfy the singer's aesthetic needs but also have purposes within the scope of daily activities: singing to pray for a lucky new year, singing to get acquainted, to strengthen love relationships... The lyrics resound elegantly and politely in vivid and beautiful poetic images.

- Spring, summer, autumn and winter I love you. When you are away, my heart is so sad.

When will we be together as a couple?

Even though I fly high in all directions, The royal poinciana flies across many rivers and seas, Do you know that our love is still there?

Happy New Year

Love you, I'm happy Love the high mountains covered with clouds Mountains covered with clouds covered with mist Clouds covered mountains covered

(Glide)

Sli and luon songs are a genre of folk literature. They have many vivid and flexible expressions in practical life. It is on the practical land of the Ooc Po festival that sli and luon songs were born and they only truly live when they are expressed in their performance environment.

Festivals are an occasion for people to sing sli, sing luon, to be intoxicated with lyrical songs, an occasion for people to listen, to know and to know about sli singing...

The unique lyrical nature of these sli songs is set against the backdrop of natural scenery, making them unforgettable to anyone who has heard them once.

January spring plum blossoms are beautiful Plum blossoms in the garden all bloom Plum blossoms in the garden are blooming brightly Tall and short trees are all bright Tall and short trees are all bright

(Gong)

It can be said that the Ooc Po festival is the environment that gives rise to and performs the folk songs of the Nung Phan Slinh people. Closely associated with the festival activities is the presence of folk songs and through the festival days as well as the Ooc Po festival seasons, the sli and luon songs of the Nung Phan Slinh people continue to be maintained, preserved and developed. The Ooc Po festival is like a fertile land where, next to the old sli and luon songs, new sli and luon songs are planted and sprout new shoots.

3.2.3. Sli, Luon - A unique cultural activity of the Ooc Po festival

“Folklore is closely associated with all aspects of the working people's life and participates in those activities as a component, a constituent element of those activities” [06;14]

Sli and Luon are elements that contribute to the Ooc Po Festival. After the ritual part comes the festival part of the Ooc Po Festival. As we have presented in the previous part, the festival part of the Ooc Po Festival is quite rich with folk games such as tug of war, fighting with swallows, crossbow shooting... and especially indispensable are the folk melodies of sli and luon.

The festival is not only a day for praying for a good harvest but also an occasion for Nung boys and girls to enter meaningful dates, those dates cannot be without the charming sli and passionate luan. On the roads to the village, in front of the beautiful stilt houses, one can see a familiar image of those festivals: groups of young Nung men and women passionately singing sli and luan, they sing songs praising life and love, and when the lyrics are mixed, they can forget the way home. They do not pay attention to time, nor worry about space. These images are beautiful features that contribute to the meaning of the Ooc Po festival.

- Nam: Hey, let's go back to the village and talk about it now.

- Female: Twelve months of work and fun

- Nam: We met on the street, opening the way for Ki Lua market.

- Woman: If only the main road was open on both sides, we could choose a good day and talk to each other.

Without sli singing and luon singing, the Ooc Po Festival would lose its uniqueness and interest. It is the folk songs and the desire for love and happiness of couples that have "set an example" for plants, so that plants and animals can also have pairs, have generations, and grow and develop (As well as the rest of the festival).

2.1.2 we have mentioned). This contributes to increasing the value and meaning of the content of the Ooc Po Festival.

Sociology of art is a category, a research method with the purpose of discovering society expressed through literature and vice versa. If the above part said that thanks to the festival, the values of sli, luong live longer in life

In practical life, on the other hand, we also see the unique cultural values of the Ooc Po festival partly expressed through the form of singing sli and luon. These are manifestations of the culture of worshipping gods, the culture of fertility praying for people, crops, and animals to grow, flourish, and develop.

According to author Dinh Gia Khanh:

“Any work that wants to become a folklore work must first meet the following two conditions: first, the work must reflect the life of the masses, in the historical conditions in which the work exists, expressing what is most intimate in the thoughts and feelings of the masses; second, the work must, through performing arts, live its vivid life in a certain folklore living environment, becoming a constituent element, an organic part of the social life of the masses.” [07;37]

As above, the sli and luon songs of the Nung Phan Slinh people meet all the conditions to become works of folk literature. With the performance form that can be solo singing or singing in response, these folk songs are both oral and collective. The content of the sli and luon songs that the Nung Phan Slinh people sing in spring and on festival occasions is partly influenced by the environment and atmosphere of the festival, especially in the singing in response, the improvisational form is a typical expression of folk literature that has also been shown. This is a positive form of artistic creativity in folk literature that the sli and luon songs of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh - Dong Hy - Thai Nguyen have maintained.

Obviously, as a constituent element of the Ooc po, sli, luon festival of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh, it is an indispensable cultural activity.

In addition to the festival's shortcomings, it contributes to creating unique features, attractiveness, and traditional cultural identity of the Nung Phan Slinh people.

- Today I am lucky to meet you, so we can talk about many lucky things.

- Today I come to this homeland to learn about business experience.

- Business is long term, Singing sli, singing luon is just for a while.

- Work to feed people, Sing sli, sing in a roundabout way.

- Lifetime work. Singing sli, singing luon only represents youth.

(Sli response)

Thus, we can see that sli, luon and Ooc Po festival have a close relationship. Cultural activities and this type of folk art have shown us more clearly the richness and uniqueness in the spiritual and cultural life of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh commune, Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province. Contributing to creating richness and diversity for the cultural and folk literature treasure of the nation.

3.3. Preserving and promoting the values of the Ooc Po festival and the sli and luon melodies of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh - Dong Hy - Thai Nguyen

Our country is entering a period of opening up and integration, the process of cultural exchange and acculturation is taking place strongly, causing great changes in the material and spiritual life of ethnic groups in general and the Nung Phan Slinh ethnic group in particular. In reality, the Ooc Po festival and the sli and luon songs are changing a lot, some cultural elements are moving in a good direction, but in reality, the organization of festivals on the right scale as before is not regular, only once every few years, the rest of the year, it is only organized in the scope of the Ceremony and some games are narrowed down to the area in the village. This also partly affects

affecting the maintenance of sli and luon melodies, the traditional cultural values are being lost. At this rate, the rituals of the festivals, sli and luon songs will go away with the elderly. Therefore, preserving and promoting the cultural values of the Ooc Po festival and the sli and luon melodies of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh - Dong Hy - Thai Nguyen is an extremely necessary task. But it is also a task that requires time, the contribution of many people and especially the attention and direction of the authorities at all levels.

To contribute to preserving the cultural values that make up the richness and beauty of Vietnamese culture, we boldly propose a few ideas related to preserving the cultural values of the folk festival - Ooc Po and the folk melodies sli, luon of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh - Dong Hy as follows:

When it comes to preserving and promoting the cultural, literary and artistic values of festivals, folk melodies, etc., we must first pay attention to separating the bad from the good, correctly recognizing the values that our ancestors left behind, and eliminating inappropriate rituals and customs. However, in the process of studying the Ooc Po Festival and the singing of the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh - Dong Hy - Thai Nguyen, we realized that the Festival no longer has cumbersome, complicated procedures or superstitious customs, so there is nothing that needs to be eliminated. What is important and urgent is to preserve, maintain and promote the unique values of this festival.

Preserving and promoting the cultural, literary and artistic values of the Ooc Po festival and sli and luon singing means knowing how to make those traditional values continue to exist and develop in the new era.

With the Ooc Po festival, it is necessary to record specifically the festival's organizing rituals. Maintain regular organization of the festival on the traditional annual holiday. Education

to their descendants the meaning of organizing the Festival for the spiritual life of their people. The treasure of sli, luon of the Nung Phan Sling people is quite rich, which are labor songs, songs of daily life, songs of ritual customs, not only appearing in the Ooc Po festival but also in other cultural activities of the Nung Phan Sling ethnic community. Restoring and maintaining these folk melodies has a very great significance. It is both preserving folk songs containing the culture of the ethnic community and at the same time an opportunity for the younger generations to cultivate, study and preserve a rich treasure of traditional literature that has been accumulated for many generations. Preserving and promoting the values of the Ooc Po Festival, an ancient festival of the Nung Phan Sling people and the sli, luon melodies that are a part of the Ooc Po festival can be carried out in many different ways. For example:

Collect, introduce and promote the nation's sli and luong capital .

We have identified the objects that need to be preserved and promoted, but how to preserve and promote them, that is, what is the conservation solution? This requires the synchronous participation of many sectors and many levels of local government, not only in words and in writing, but also in concrete actions.

Spiritual cultural activities have a particularly important meaning for the spiritual life of the people, there have been some document exploitation, video and audio recordings carried out in Hoa Binh commune but not much and only general in nature. Therefore, to preserve and promote the cultural values of the Nung Phan slinh ethnic community in Hoa Binh in particular as well as other ethnic groups, it requires local authorities to coordinate synchronously with cultural sectors, specialized researchers, museum staff and artisans to research thoroughly, collect and gather all sli words, luong sentences in community life, record them into a methodical form, and translate them into common language and then give them back to the people.

In the process of preserving and promoting the cultural and folk literature values of folk songs, it is necessary to ensure their integrity in the performance environment with all its integrity. Only by placing folk songs in their performance environment can we fully appreciate the value of those folk songs. Therefore, in addition to collecting folk songs, it is necessary to restore and selectively maintain traditional folk cultural activities such as the Ooc Po Festival, weddings, funerals, birthdays, etc.

Besides, collecting intangible cultural heritages such as sli and luon songs systematically by recording and filming not only for preservation but also for supporting and providing individuals with passion and talent to self-study and create, adding to the cultural and literary treasure of the nation. It will also be a valuable source of reference for individuals and organizations who want to learn and research the cultural capital of ethnic groups.

Organize festivals and teach folk songs to the young generation locally.

Along with collecting and preserving sli and luon melodies as mentioned above, local authorities should support funding to organize the annual Ooc Po festival on a large scale, attracting the attention not only of people in the commune but also of neighboring communes, creating conditions for cultural exchange for ethnic communities, contributing to preserving the long-standing cultural values of the Nung Phan Slinh ethnic group.

Local authorities at all levels cooperate with dedicated artists to develop plans and provide financial support to organize sli and luan singing classes for children with musical abilities right in the village, so that talented sli and luan singers can pass on their traditional folk songs to the younger generation, while at the same time arousing their good feelings for the folk songs of their own ethnic group, thereby expanding the sli and luan singing repertoire for everyone. The purpose of this work is for each person here, especially the younger generation, to learn how to sing sli and luan.

The younger generation understands the customs and practices of their ancestors. From there, everyone will be aware of the need to preserve and promote the good traditional values of the nation.

Currently, through a content in the movement "Building friendly schools, active students", the education sector has begun to pay attention to educating students about understanding and love for folk games and folk songs by organizing folk game and folk song singing competitions. This activity needs to be maintained and expanded so that students and the younger generation can directly perceive the precious spiritual values of their nation, thereby preserving and propagating not only in that ethnic community but also for all other ethnic groups. Creating unity in cultural diversity, enriching the Vietnamese cultural treasure.

Summary:

Like many other ethnic groups, the Nung Phan Slinh people in Hoa Binh commune, Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province also organize an agricultural festival, the Ooc Po Festival.

This is a festival of special significance to the spiritual life of the Nung Phan Slinh people. The festival consists of two parts: the Ceremony and the Festival. Through the festival, people pray for a new year with good health, good luck for people, and good harvests... And this is also an opportunity for them to meet, exchange, and enjoy spring after a year of hard work. In particular, the Ooc Po Festival is also a place and an opportunity for young men and women to meet, get to know each other and find lovers. This is an activity that connects the community, containing elements of fertility culture and spiritual elements in the culture of the Nung Phan Slinh people.

In particular, the Ooc Po festival has a close relationship with sli singing and luon singing. Sli singing and luon singing are important and indispensable cultural activities in the Ooc Po festival. Sli singing and luon singing create richness,

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