History of Vietnam by Anh Pham & Anh Pham

Author:Anh Pham & Anh Pham [Pham, Anh]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

50 Tran Quoc Vuong: Theo Dòng Lịch Sử page 356.

Through thousands of years of history with ups and downs and now although kingdom of Champa no longer existed, specific cultural characters of ancient Cham people or ProtoViets are still respectfully maintained. Although having the same blood-line origin, but because of a time gap that accumulated for thousands of years being apart, and of geographical features and living condition at the locals, the gap grew even larger, making differences between the two clans. Indeed, Hoabinhian=>proto-viets people and later Malayo-Viets removed from southern China, ancient Vietnamese settled in northern Vietnam a long time ago, from which the second migration of Cham people were 2,500 years apart.

Cham people settled in the south like Malaysians and Indonesians who lived near the equator where native people of Melanesian origin were black. Complexion of these two peoples was a little black and their hair was slightly curly. On the other hand, because of the ancient sea route from Champa to India, Indian businessmen came to Champa Sea to propagate Indian culture, and especially Islamic culture, therefore the Champa were a little different from the primitive Viet community. Especially, Cham people‟s religion was Islam, but they modified it into religion of Bani which has traditionally cultural characters of Champa for worshipping gods and ancestors.

Cham people celebrate their new year on the 19th April (Solar calendar) and their two annual big festivals are Kate festival on July of the Champa calendar for showing gratitude to heaven and earth and ancestors for protection and help and Chabur festival for female nature in September to worship Goddesses such as goddess PoInu Nagar who was also called Thien Yana and the Lady of the realm of Cham people. Especially, it was a contrary between God in Kate festival and Goddess in Chabur festival, and with conceptions of heaven and earth, father and mother, and male and female which represented philosophical theory of a transformation of Yin and Yang from the ancient Vietnamese and have been kept untill the present. Cham people have still kept an ancient culture with folk verses, steles of literature, historical anecdotes together with the live and sophisticated sculptures and statuses of traditions of Mon-Viet people in ancient times.

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