Child blessing ceremony - the first rite of Ba Na people

Child blessing ceremony - the first rite of Ba Na people

Child blessing ceremony is a ritual for babies under 24 months, asking the gods to continue to protect and teach their children to grow up.

Ba Na ethnic people (To Tung, K'bang, Kon Tum) perceive spirits and prayers as a common way for people to communicate with spirits. In certain stages, human life will be affected by different gods. Kids are always surrounded by many gods. In order for them to be healthy, they have to perform prayers for gods from the moment the baby is born to adulthood.

To carry out ceremonies, family members and worshipers perform the tree. This is the typical plant of the people are made of bamboo, pruning flowers, drawing chicken pattern.

Depending on the conditions that the host prepared the gift, however, there is no shortage of plants, mussels, gourds, knives, earplugs, cotton, copper bowls, rolls, chicken hen, the girl is hen). Chicken after meat, choose a few pieces such as liver, meat, heart, ... into small baskets, lined with clean leaves, wine is poured into the bowl to perform the ceremony.


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Babies born after 3 months to 24 months of age will have to have a blessing ceremony. In addition to praying for a healthy baby, Ba Na people celebrate the blessing, name the baby and give thanks to the gods.

The priest performs ceremonies at the front yard to invite the gods.

When the midwife, the shaman is present, the family took the baby to sit before the gifts. The parents sit on the east side of the offering, while the priest sits on the west side.

Midwives, shamans to bless, pray for good luck; The guardian god protects the child. People do not forget to call yang, ancestors, grandparents; yang east yang west, yang jungle, stream; yang birth, protection of human beings ... When blessing, people bring baby newborn baby, patted the chest, back and symbolic blow in the ear.


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When finished, the shaman rubbed lightly on the head, chest, back, hands and feet, and symbolic blow to the baby's ear, tying only to the ears.

After completing the ritual, the worshiper invited the midwife, the parents of the baby to drink wine to thank. With the Child blessing Ceremony, the Ba Na people believe that the baby will always be healthy, wise, alert, and good.

People often do ritual in the stilt house. After Yang, relatives drinking wine to play, singing, ethnic musical instruments, to congratulate the baby at the festival grounds.

The child blessing ceremony of Ba Na ethnic minority (To Tung, K'bang, Kon Tum) took place within the framework of "Great unity of ethnic groups - Vietnamese cultural heritage" from 18 to 23 / 11, at the Cultural Village - Tourism of the ethnic groups of Vietnam (Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi).