Named Ceremony Of Red Dao People In Sapa

The red Dao people in Lao Cai are mainly living in many villages of combo sapa, Bat Xat, Van Ban, Bao Yen, Bao Thang.
When the baby was born until adult, the red Dao people must go through 3 named ceremony. First one when the baby is one month year old, second one when they are 15-16 years old, third one when they are marriage. The red Dao people consider the named ceremony is a very important in their life.



The name for the baby of red Dao people also concern to their ancestor, position in their tree family. Each person has name in order, position to classify between the member in their tree family, each name has been used in 5 generations. And so, when they give name for the baby, family must be careful to check the position in their tree family, then making a ceremony to ask the permission of the king "Foot Print", you could not give the same name of your ancestor (even they died 5 generation ago).



The named ceremony has to pass many rituals, each one last from 2 days to 3 days. The ritual need two masters and combo sapa both of them, they must be in the same tree family with the baby and of course, they have to know about the custom, gentle and good morals.
The other people in the ritual must be the old people and know about their custom.

At the ceremony, two masters and the others and you need looking for 6 unmarried people (3 boys and 3 girls) they are not married yet, strong, intelligent, fast and they have to know the folk songs and dance during the ceremony.

The baby was named with his grandfather and the people in dancing group have to wear in colorful dresses with the red belt, head with parrot shape scarf for man and red traditional scarf for woman.

At the end of ceremony, the masters change their dress in green one, the baby has to change the dress during the ritual.


The offerings for the ceremony included: 4 pigs from 20-60 kg (depend on condition of the family), 20 sticky rice cakes, 5 liter of wine. 2 pigs for worshiping ancestor, gods and also need some gold money. 2 pigs for making feast to treat the people who join the ceremony.



In three times of named ceremony of red Dao people, the second time is official name for communication in the family and social. The name in the third ceremony only use for rituals, deat

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