"Avoiding the Tiger" days of the Red Dao people

Published: 18/04/2009 05:00

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On the first days of the New Year, the Red Dao people in Lai Chau Province practice the custom of ” Avoiding the Tiger” with a hope of having a happy life and bumper crop in the New Year.

Red Dao girls in their traditional costume/ Smoking-shelf in any family home in Mo Si
San Commune, expressing the Red Dao’s hope for abundant cookingstuff in the New Year.

Taking childen out/ Farming tools and horns are neatly arranged under the altar during the “avoiding the tiger” days.

Women sew and embroider/ Ly Phu Hin in To Y Phin Hamlet writes the Dao scripts “The New Year, New Happiness, Great Joy and Great Benefits”.

The Red Dao people usually place cang around the pig’s neck, believing it will not destroy crops in the garden/ Red Dao children play a game of bow and arrows with a hope that they can protect the hamlet.

Children are interested in playing football/ Young people participate in the game
of catching ducks.

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