Tày people

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Tày
Bắc Giang Provinces
Languages
Vietnamese • Tày
Religion
Tai folk religion (Then)[2][3] and Buddhism[4]
Related ethnic groups
Other Tai peoples and Vietnamese
Provinces by percentage of Tày people (2009)[5]
  >40%
  30%–40%
  20%–30%
  5%–20%
  1%–5%
  <1%

The Tày people, also known as the Thổ, T'o, Tai Tho, Ngan, Phen, Thu Lao, or Pa Di, is a

Bắc Giang provinces. They inhabit fertile plains and are generally agriculturalists, mainly cultivating rice. They also cultivate maize, and sweet potato
among other things.

History

The Tày were once known as the Thổ people. Thổ is derived from Chinese tǔ (土), which means 'land' and 'local'. Although not inherently a pejorative it was often used as such in practice (cf. "bumpkin") in both Vietnam and China. Under the

Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Thổ was deemed a pejorative and substituted with Tày.[7]

The Tày are closely related to the Nùng people and Zhuang people, who they are culturally and linguistically almost indistinguishable from. Although they are considered an indigenous group, portions of their population likely originated in China during the 11th and 12th centuries. However unlike the Nùng, they were more heavily Vietnamized due to their closer proximity to the Kinh and shared similar cultural practices with the Vietnamese such as lacquering their teeth black. By 1900 around 30% of their language was made of Vietnamese loan words.[7][8]

Tày customs were altered greatly due to Vietnamese and Confucian patriarchal structures, however some customs persisted. Polygamy with multiple equal wives and legitimacy of issue was practiced. Marriage was preferred to occur within the clan. Young wives lived with their parents until giving birth to their first child. Tày women, like those of the Nùng and Zhuang, were said to have used poison to seek revenge when wronged.[7]

The Tày and Nùng often intermarried, although the Tày seem to have held higher status in these relationships. Tày men married Nùng women more often than the other way around. Some Nùng groups were probably absorbed by the Tày.[7]

Religion

Tày people
Diorama of a then inside the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi
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The majority of the Tày practices Then, an

Cao Bằng) also identified as the Yellow Emperor (Hoàng Đế).[2] For their religious ceremonies they used to be able to recite Chinese characters but now along with the characters they use glosses because many of them can't recite anymore due to the fact that Vietnamese schools don't teach Chinese characters.[9]

An altar for the ancestors is usually placed in a central location in the house. The altar room is considered sacred; guests and women who have given birth are not allowed to sit on the bed in front of the altar.

Some Tày have adopted

Mahayana Buddhism under the influence of Vietnamese and Chinese culture.[4]

Language

Characters formerly used by the Tày people were added to Unicode in 2017. This one, U+2B86F, means "wealthy" and is romanized as giàu. It is a variant of 朝, the corresponding character in Vietnamese.[10]

The Tày people speak the Tày language, among other Tai dialects of the Kra–Dai languages. Literacy in their own language is quite low among Tày people, probably around 5% or less. Dialects include Central Tày, Eastern Tày, Southern Tày, Northern Tày, Tày Trung Khanh, Thu Lao, and Tày Bao Lac, Tày Binh Lieu. There is a continuum of dialects to southern Zhuang in China.

Festival

  • Lồng tồng (literally: "Going down the rice paddy") celebrated after the New Lunar Year Festival to pray for a good harvest.
  • Tăm khảu mảu (literally: "Braying the young rice") celebrated as the rice is ripening.

Cuisine

  • Dishes in "Slip Sli" festival (the monday of the 7th lunar month): pẻng cuội banana cake), pẻng nhứa cáy, pẻng ngá (peanut cake), pẻng mịt, pẻng tải (literally: carrying cake)
  • Pẻng rày (ant's egg cake): made from glutinous rice (Tày language: khảu), ant's black egg (Tày language: rày) and wrapped by leaves of a kind of fig (Tày language: bâu ngỏa).
  • Pẻng đắng (literally: ash water cake): for Double Fifth Festival.
  • Khảu thuy: is the cake for offering God and the Earth in Lồng tồng festival. Glutinous rice which is soaked in water of common water hyacinth and red flower- sandbox tree ash is mixed with taro and a kind of wine. Then, it is boiled and brayed. The next step is that it is cut into square-shaped or canarium fruit-shaped pieces and dried in the sun later. When the festival is going to come, it is fried until it is swelled. At last, it is soaked in molasses and then in fried-rice powder.
  • Nà Giàng khảu sli: the glutinous cake with peanuts made in Nà Giàng, Phù Ngọc commune, Hà Quảng district,
    Cao Bằng Province
    .
  • Pẻng hó: glutinous rice cake with pork and mung bean.
  • Coóng phù
  • Pẻng khạ (God's cake) for New Year festival.
  • Khảu nua nàng tô: glutinous rice with grub for New Rice Festival on the moonday of 8th lunar month.
  • Pẻng phạ: for Lồng Tồng Festival.
  • Áp chao
  • Pẻng chì
  • Khảu slec
  • Pẻng khua (smiling cake)
  • Coóc mò
  • Ửng sệch phàn
  • Đăm đeng
  • Khảu lang
  • Pẻng toóc: for New Year Festival
  • Pẻng cao
  • Mác lịch: Trùng Khánh chestnut
  • Ché khôm: Cao Bằng bitter tea: Ilex kaushue (synonym: Ilex kudingcha)
  • Khau rả:
    Ampelopsis cantoniensis

Herbs

Music

Tày-ized Vietnamese among the Tày

A part of the modern-day Tày population encompasses Tày-ized Vietnamese who live mainly in what is now

Nam Dinh, etc. dispatched to the Sino-Annamese border by Annamese imperial governments to serve as governmental officials and local leaders (phiên thần thổ ty).[12] These people were then forbidden to return to their home areas.[12] Eventually they got assimilated into the indigenous Tày surrounding population. Their common surnames include Vi, Nguyễn Đình, Nguyễn Khắc, Nguyễn Công, Hoàng Đức, Hoàng Đình, etc. This practice started in the 15th century and ended in the early 20th century. Vi Văn Định is an example of these Tày-ized Vietnamese in the 20th century.[13]

Notable Tày people

References

  1. ^ "Report on Results of the 2019 Census". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d Nguyễn Thị Yên. "An Investigation into Objects of Worship in Then belief" Archived 2016-07-01 at the Wayback Machine. Religious Studies Review, No. 3, Vol. 2 – October 2008
  3. ISBN 978-9971-988-20-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
    )
  4. ^ a b VieTimes - Thầy Tào và câu chuyện thần linh người Tày của A Sáng Archived 2008-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "The 2009 Vietnam Population and Housing Census: Completed Results". General Statistics Office of Vietnam: Central Population and Housing Census Steering Committee. June 2010. Archived from the original on 18 October 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  6. ^ "Dân tộc Tày". Báo Nhân Dân điện tử (in Vietnamese). 2022-10-25. Archived from the original on 2024-02-10. Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  7. ^ a b c d "Zhuang 07". mcel.pacificu.edu. Archived from the original on 8 February 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Tay people in Vietnam". Archived from the original on 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2020-04-16.
  9. ISBN 978-90-04-24216-6
    .
  10. ^ Hoàng Triều Ân, Tự điển chữ Nôm Tày [Nom of the Tay People], 2003, p. 178.
    Detailed information: V+63830" Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation.
    Father Trần Văn Kiệm, Giúp đọc Nôm và Hán Việt [Help with Nom and Sino-Vietnamese], 2004, p. 424, "Entry giàu."
    Entry giàu Archived 2013-05-16 at the Wayback Machine", VDict.com.
  11. ^ "Practices of Then by Tày, Nùng and Thái ethnic groups in Viet Nam". UNESCO. Archived from the original on 10 December 2020. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  12. ^ a b Nguyễn Quang Huynh (2011), Thổ ty Lạng Sơn trong lịch sử, Văn hóa dân tộc publisher, p. 10.
  13. ^ Văn nghệ Công nhân, KHÁNH THÀNH NHÀ THỜ TỔ HỌ VI (2017) Archived 2019-02-13 at the Wayback Machine.

Bibliography

  • —— (2013), Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script: A Vernacular Writing System from Southern China, Brill,
    ISBN 978-9-004-22369-1
    .
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