An old H'mong lade in Suoi Giang - Photo by Thai Linh Suoi Giang is a mountainous commune of Van Chan (Văn Chấn), Yen Bai province where focus a lot of H'mong Si (Red H'mong) minority.
Like other minorities settling down in Vietnam territory, the H'mong also believe in supernatural forces, in existence of "hồn" and "vía" (soul and spiritual factors). "hồn" and "vía" follow people's whole life. Each individual has three "vía" and seven "hồn" and these seven "hồn" function as shadows which all turn up at the same time once they are lamped. "Hồn" only exists when people are alive and disappear when people are dead and it does not exist in the world of dead. Hence, the Red H'mong has their custom of relieving people's run of bad luck or executes a séance for the alive.
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| An old H'mong lade in Suoi Giang - Photo by Thai Linh |
After three days after being given to birth, people here hold a ritual to call for "vía" and give the baby a name. Offering is a cock that is raised by the host, not to be bought or taken from anywhere else, to worship outside of their house; and a couple of chickens as offerings to worship inside of their house along with 4 sticks of incense, 4 votive papers to be burned to take "vía" down from Heaven to incarnate into baby's body. That "vía" will accompany that baby for his/her entire life. Upon his/her death, one "vía" will leave him/her to find another person to reincarnate, one "vía" will fly back to Heaven, one "vía" will stay with the dead, reside at the dead's grave. The alive are often caused to be sick by the dead's "vía". Hence, alive people consequently have to execute séance to ask the dead's "vía" not to get the alive in troubles, not to take the alive's "vía" away, and at the same time for taken-away "vía" to return to the alive so that those alive people may recovery from sickness, or ask for peacefulness to their family, their clan, their village.
It is one of unique believes of the Red H'mong, existing this land that visitors should not miss their chance to drop in to get more interesting discovery.
Thuy Vi
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