San Chay people
Encyclopedia
The San Chay people live in the Tuyên Quang
province of northeastern
Vietnam
, as well as some nearby provinces. They speak a Tai language
. Their population was 147,315 in 1999.
They sing sình cồ (love song) and celebrate the Slếch thlin mảy festival (New Rice festival).
Tuyên Quang Province
Tuyên Quang is a province of Vietnam, located in the northeastern part of the country to the northwest of Hanoi, at the centre of Lo River valley, a tributary of the Red River. The delta formation in the province is called the Tonkin Delta. Its capital is Tuyên Quang Township...
province of northeastern
Dong Bac
The Northeast is the region at the north of the Red River Delta, Vietnam. Northeast called to distinguish them from the Northwest, but it's actually in the north and northeast of Hanoi, wider than Việt Bắc. The northeast is one of three sub-regions of northern Vietnam...
Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
, as well as some nearby provinces. They speak a Tai language
Tai languages
The Tai or Zhuang–Tai languages are a branch of the Tai–Kadai language family. The Tai languages include the most widely spoken of the Tai–Kadai languages, including standard Thai or Siamese, the national language of Thailand; Lao or Laotian, the national language of Laos; Burma's Shan language;...
. Their population was 147,315 in 1999.
They sing sình cồ (love song) and celebrate the Slếch thlin mảy festival (New Rice festival).
Literature
The San Chay have many sayings:- Rice is the most precious
- Grain feeds human.
- Literature is the secondly most precious
- It teaches human knowledge for safe purpose.