Time: The 15th day of the first lunar month.
Place: Ta Chai Commune, Bac Ha District, Lao Cai Province.
Objects of worship: Agriculture Deity (administer of fields and gardens).
Characteristics: Xoe dancing of the Tay.
Xoe Festival in Ta Chai is the spring festival of the Tay to pray for
good crop, full of grains and rice. The ritual is rather simple with a
tray of offerrings put at the foot of a neu tree which show the
sincerity of villagers to the god of farming. After the magician
observes rituals, the whole of the village take part in dancing of xoe
in the boisterous sounds of gong, drum with many special styles of
dance such as: xoe in group, xoe in couple, xoe in four person, xoe
greeting...
