(VOVworld) – Living in high mountains, the Ha Nhi depend largely on nature. They believe that genies have blessed them with a peaceful life and given them forests, water, rice, and other kinds of food. The Ha Nhi attach importance to worshipping genies to thank their merits.
(VOvworld) – Settling in high mountains for hundreds of year, the Ha Nhi depend on agricultural production on terraced fields. They have well-organized irrigation systems and have mastered cultivation techniques on terraced fields. Besides farming, they also do some handicrafts.
(VOVworld) – The Ha Nhi consider water the source of life and fire the source of power. The woodstove space is the key spot in their house. They put a sacred rock next to the woodstove to represent the kitchen genie, who is the house’s protector. VOV reports on the Ha Nhi’s worship of the kitchen genie.
(VOVworld) – The lives of the Ha Nhi ethnic people are closely associated with the forest and brooks. They consider the forest their house and brooks the source of life and spiritual support. Generations of Ha Nhi have evolved many ceremonies and festivals to worship and protect the forest and brooks.
(VOVworld) – The Hà Nhì ethnic group has about 21,700 people living in Vietnam’s northwestern provinces bordering China and Laos.
(VOVworld) – Getting married is an important event in a person’s life. Khmer boys and girls are free to date but must follow many rules and customs for marriage. Today VOV will describe a traditional Khmer marriage.
(VOVworld) – “Ro bam” or “Rom Ro bam” is a classical dance-drama on the Khmer’s royal stage. Among the Khmer theatrical forms, Ro bam dance is considered the summit of artistic values. Hong Hanh Chi has a story “Ro bam, a typical dance-drama of the Khmer”.
(VOVworld) – The Khmer have developed many dances for different occasions which reflect their creativity, aesthetic sense, and cultural and social values.
(VOVworld) – The clothing of the Khmer in southern Vietnam is unlike the costumes of other ethnic groups.
(VOVworld) – The Khmer in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta have inherited Angkor culture with influences from the local wet rice civilization and Chinese and Cham ethnic groups.
