Celebrating Bunpimay with Lao students in Nghe An
(Baonghean)- Unable to join in the New Year celebrations in their homeland, nearly 400 Lao students in Nghe An still celebrated the New Year in a full, warm and united manner with all the customs: splashing water, tying wrist strings, Lam-vong dance...
The association has coordinated with Vinh University to organize a meaningful Tet for overseas students... Lao New Year held in Nghe An demonstrates the spirit of Laos-Vietnam solidarity, the close relationship between Nghe An and the brotherly country of Laos. This is also an opportunity for Nghe An people who have lived, fought, studied and worked in Laos to recall old memories..."
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Although Buntimay Tet in Nghe An is not as bustling as the New Year celebration in the Land of a Million Elephants, it still has enough traditional rituals such as: praying for luck, splashing water, tying thread on wrists, Lam-vong dance...
meSirone Ruervai Bounthavy(Laotian student at Vinh University) confided: “Every time Bunpimay comes, we miss our families very much. Receiving the care and joy from the members of the Vietnam-Laos Friendship Association, teachers, and Vietnamese students, I feel warmer...”
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There is no longer any ethnic distance, host and guest... entering the festival, everyone is friends, brothers... In Nghe An - a foreign land, but the children still feel the family atmosphere, see the image of beloved Laos through songs, dances, customs, rituals...
Thanh Phuc