After hard day Vietnam motorcycle tours, they always spend their days on walking around to see more and learn more about the ethnic hill tribes. Sapa attracts visitors a lot for it has a beautiful scenery and friendly people. And you will find many Red Dao women who come to center town for working and selling things.
Today, we will introduce you about the funeral of the Red Dao, and you will learn more during your Vietnam motorbike rides:
In every funeral, there is always a man who called thay tao playing an important role in the funeral. Any family has a death, the family members of the death will invite him to supervise the rituals and fine a piece of land for the grave. The deceased will be wrapped in a mat and placed in the coffin inside the house. Then it is carried by strong men to the grave which built of earth and lined with stones. In many different places where the Read Dao live, the dead body is cremated if the deceased is older than 12 years old of age. Funeral rituals will be celebrated to ensure that the deceased rests in peace. It will be taken in many years after the burial. The ceremony usually coincides with initiation rites for a Dao man of the family. Each celebration will be lasted for at least three days. The first day is to liberate the spirit of the deceased (which like the death will break from jail. The second day is to worship deceased in his/her house.
The last day is for the man’s initiation rite take. It is so special and so different from other hill tribes is that the man has to sit on a throne at the highest place in the village until he falls into hammocks hanging below him. This represents him falling down from the sky to be born on earth, another symbol of the Dao belief that they are the direct descendents of God.
For more details, join our motorcycle tours Vietnam and you can asked directly about the Red Dao funeral procedure.
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