The festival and yearly ceremonial

1. The ceremony about cultivating for example before plant has will begging for blessing or notify to ancestor that give take care the farmland, do not give animal or obstruction land from the insect come to planting crops. The ceremonies have to kill a pig, a chicken to use in performing a ceremony. They will have ceremony like begin transplant rice seedlings grow, before ready to harvest will arrange perform a ceremony to eat new rice that make for a ghost or ancestor as harvest rice comes to roast and pound give to ancestor before do anything with the rice that they have. “Tuem-Sa” will be a person who performs a ceremony by have the equipment such as dry-cooked rice half unripe, pounded unripe rice “Hmee”. They have to wrapping to give to other person who not comes to attend the ceremony. They believe in that must give the rice to the other eats before them that will make them have effective compensate that plentiful later more. Thereafter they will harvest everything that grows, after harvest finished will have a great ceremony as “Ma-Naw” dance give to ancestor, kill cow, buffalo. If effective produce plentiful, sometime the village will arrange the ceremony for every household or individual.
2. The ceremony in the house or a village. When have often ill, a black magician or “Tuem-Sa” will cast lot to see that thing happen in a village, what is the god wants? They will perform a ceremony to solve with the thing that the god wants. The majority will have the ceremony about solve the bad thing, evil with animal blood. The black magician will fixes the place that will raise the ceremony.
3. The ceremony in the district. The pets that feed get into trouble often, the wild animals comes to a village, pets dies that they will have performing a ceremony, has the respect in the earth god that they must notify to the earth god that if get into trouble will perform a ceremony dig a hole and kill a chicken and young cow (beautiful red) female chicken is red. When they kill finished then bury all over, have not taking meat to eat and take a big piece of stone comes to overlay. If who eat that meat will died, regarded that is as filling bad disease (evil) that do not spread in the community, bury everything with the earth and a stone. After that everyone will under interdiction in a village 7 days, nobody goes out to work in a farm or go out the village to anywhere else. Everybody don't go out outside a village, do not enter the forest to kill animal. After finished this ceremony is regarded as every problem has ended already.


Information from: Baan Mai patthana “Kachin” Moo 12 Thambon Muangna, Chiangdao district, Chiangmai
Inmormant: 1. Boonchoo TuaMo 2. Kaew (Ka-Kom) 3. Pan- Pan (The villager leader) and 4. Mrs. Anun Chimrang.
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