Tug - one of the traditional folk games in many countries in the Asia Pacific region - was born and brought up by the community, the cultural activities, beliefs and practices of the community from ancient. In 2013, the General Administration of Cultural Heritage has invitations Korea Vietnam and several other countries attended the built heritage Profile multinational "Ritual and tug of war games."
Games tug of folk
Tug usually held in the festive season demand, reflecting the wishes of the agricultural population, pray for good weather, and wind and better weather, happy life, multiply, multiply. Not only the Kinh, but in many other ethnic minorities in Vietnam such as ethnic Thai, Tay, Nung, Giay ... also keep tug folk games with more diverse forms, rich in the way play.
During traditional festivals, often tug games in the Assembly, expressing teamwork, discipline, strength of community solidarity, strong will to win, physical training, strength endurance, ingenuity and human endurance, helps people develop intellectually comprehensive, ethics, finance, technology.
Competition spiritual nature
Tug is a game organized way, props and simple playground. A tug of war competition with two teams, the number of people equally. 2 teams will take on a rope, at the midpoint of the cord marked with a red silk cord as a landmark. When the signal sounded, the members of each team playing two-handed grip on the rope, pulling team over to his marker is that the team wins. Each competition consists of three innings, the team that won consecutive two half, the team won without competition 3. Each half inning typically do not last more than 2 minutes, should require the members of the team play to work very hard.
Professor Ngo Duc Thinh, member of the Board National Cultural Heritage, said: "This is not simply a mere game, but also the competition spiritual nature. Contest winner, then they get into the houses, temples for worshiping gods and they believe beyond rewards, it also has the honor of spiritual belief, they believe that all borders (village) in the village of they are individuals they are divine protection, so the traditional games in the festival, in addition to satisfying the needs of entertainment, also means tradition, spirituality indispensable ".
General characteristics of the tug in Vietnam is dragging on land, take place in a certain time period, the difference is in the dragging. Games tug at Lao Cai is the community's Tay and Giay people, but they used to pull strings in the festival, the festival typically in Ta Van Portland Roong (Sapa district) in January every year. Tug of war in Hanoi and Vinh Phuc Kinh. Vinh Phuc who sit on the pit tug available, but using ropes pulled through the column and pulled back. Tug is also sitting, but also pulled by rope when pulled, people Thach Ban (Long Bien) sitting on the ground, rather than sitting in the pits. Tug in Soc Son (Hanoi) was different, people used bamboo Soc Son to pull, pull mine called. We can say, keep tug at each place but have different gameplay, but have shown the strength, solidarity, collective stick.
As the tug-place game, the atmosphere is extremely noisy. Direct from the practice tug to serve the tug team and the people attending, cheering them cheerfully voluntary, not-for-profit or win-lose mentality. Viewers stand in a circle outside shouting, encouraging team play, maybe even longer taking drumming festival cheer Spanking makes air more exciting. Tug of war is easy to play sport and who also played for failing to invest more for instruments and very suitable for the Spring Festival fun in the village. This sport, in addition to health, the toughness it requires players to have the finesse, technique, tactics and coordinated with the team to victory.
Heritage first multinational in Vietnam?
Rituals and tug games is not just the traditional folk games of Vietnam, but also the traditional cultural heritage of other countries such as Korea, Cambodia, the Philippines ... So, in 2013, the General Cultural heritage Department of the Korean Vietnam invitation and several other countries attended the built heritage Profile multinational "Ritual and tug of war games."
Shortly after the Prime Minister's decision to approve the implementation, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam has decided to build the nomination "The ritual and traditional tug of war game" submitted to UNESCO recognition of the intangible heritage of humanity. This is the first time Vietnam countries to coordinate a legacy records in the form of multinationals. By May 3/2014, Profile, "Ritual and game tug" has been completed and now, records are transferred to UNESCO for consideration and approval phase wait the official results by the end of this 2015.
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tug of war is a famous folk game in Việt Nam . The rules is very simple .There is a rope and a piece of clothe foreces in it . this game can have many people but each side must has the same numbers .there also a referee .when the game starts ,each side pull on their side .when one team encroaching upon the bar the another will wins . both man and women can play this game .Make it popular
