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As promised earlier, I have now translated the article about the Dayak and the ancient Viet people. But I have used another website that is more research oriented.
Roughly translated from Lạ lùng tộc người giống người Việt cổ trên đảo Borneo | Khoa Học - KhoaHoc.tv
A peculiar ethnic tribe in Borneo that resembles the ancient Vietnamese
This ethnic group also possess feather adorned headgears, tattoo, stilt housing, worship dragons and sacred birds... just like the ancient Vietnamese during Hung Vuong era (nb: northern Vietnam).
In Borneo Island, the biggest island in South East Asia with territory belonging to Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia, live the ethnic Dayak - a community whose cultures are ancient and unique. According to historical research, the Dayak has inhabit Borneo since a long time. Their ancestors migrated from the Asian mainland to the island from over 3,000 years ago. The Dayak society began to prosper as metallurgy was transferred to the island around 2,450 years ago, which is also around the time of the Hung Vuong era in Vietnam.
The Dayak community consists of hundreds of different residents scattered across the island of Borneo. It has been claimed that they have hundreds of different dialects, but all belong to the Austronesian language (Austronesien). In Vietnam there are many ethnic groups that also belong to this language family, such as the Cham, Ede, Gia Rai, Out glai and Churu.
Most Dayak people live by the riverside, working in rice fields, agriculture, oil palm plantations on low hills ... They are also involved in handicrafts, pottery, weaving, metal casting, hunting and fishing.
The main religion of the Dayak is Kaharingan, a form of localized Hindu Polytheism in Borneo. They particularly worship the dragon god and a sacred bird, two entities in the legend of the birth of the ethnic Dayak. This legend is akin to the ancient Vietnamese people of the Hung Vuong era, who considered themselves to be the descendent of a "Dragon and Celestial entitiy" and honored a sacred bird as a symbol and totem of the country.
The Dayaks also has many folk customs akin to the ancient Vietnamese such as erecting ceremonial poles, customs in mariage, burial, and other traditional beliefs. A similar custom of the ancient Vietnamese and the Dayak, little seen in other ethnic groups in the region, is the custom of tattooing.
For the Dayak, tattoos express their relationship with the spirits, gods or ancestors and to banish disease, disaster, as well as ceremonies marking the coming of age, recognizing hierachy, status in tribal or distinguish friends from foes. The Dayak dress is also very similar to those of the Hung Vuong era, they use similar headgear that is decorated with long feathers, like the images depicted on the Dong Son bronze drum.
Dayak women's costumes varies by region, but are made from brocade gown, decorated with bright patterns. They wear decorative headgear on special occasions. Dayak women often stretch their earlobes with heavy metal bracelet.This is pretty similar to how the ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam such as Ede, Bana, M'nông, Ma ...
Traditionally, several generations live together in a Dayak stilt house of over 50m in length, has a capacity for 30 - 40 families and has meticulously carved patterns. The long house is also where the Dayak people gather, present offering on the worship alter, playing gongs and drums, dancing in traditional festivals. The colors, shapes, patterns are carved onto the house structure all has their own meaning. Unfortunately, these houses are slowly disappearing in our modernised age.
The Dayak have one particular practice that is internationally known: head-hunting among the tribes. This is how they protect their territories and how their warriors assert their power. The main weapons of the headhunter are spears and shield. The skulls will be kept indoors and used in many different rituals. Few people know that the nation of the central Vietnam region also had a similar head-hunting tradition. This is recognized by the French scholar, accordingly, head hunting people of rival villages is a major task to ask the spiritual world for better weather, avoiding pests, diseases and other calamities.
The Dayak people continue to practice head hunting until the 1970s, but that tradition has now been eradicated. In terms of art, the Dayak are famous for their ngajat dance, inspired by the battle of the warriors.They also use a variety of different traditional music instruments.
@Indos, @madokafc @Reashot Xigwin @Nihonjin1051 @JaiMin, etc.
I think it was intended to be off topic from the beginning. I doubt the thread was created to discuss anti-Vietnam sentiments against Viet-Chinese, but to prove another point, which Im not really sure of but find it a bit weird.
Roughly translated from Lạ lùng tộc người giống người Việt cổ trên đảo Borneo | Khoa Học - KhoaHoc.tv
A peculiar ethnic tribe in Borneo that resembles the ancient Vietnamese
This ethnic group also possess feather adorned headgears, tattoo, stilt housing, worship dragons and sacred birds... just like the ancient Vietnamese during Hung Vuong era (nb: northern Vietnam).
In Borneo Island, the biggest island in South East Asia with territory belonging to Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia, live the ethnic Dayak - a community whose cultures are ancient and unique. According to historical research, the Dayak has inhabit Borneo since a long time. Their ancestors migrated from the Asian mainland to the island from over 3,000 years ago. The Dayak society began to prosper as metallurgy was transferred to the island around 2,450 years ago, which is also around the time of the Hung Vuong era in Vietnam.
The Dayak community consists of hundreds of different residents scattered across the island of Borneo. It has been claimed that they have hundreds of different dialects, but all belong to the Austronesian language (Austronesien). In Vietnam there are many ethnic groups that also belong to this language family, such as the Cham, Ede, Gia Rai, Out glai and Churu.
Most Dayak people live by the riverside, working in rice fields, agriculture, oil palm plantations on low hills ... They are also involved in handicrafts, pottery, weaving, metal casting, hunting and fishing.
The main religion of the Dayak is Kaharingan, a form of localized Hindu Polytheism in Borneo. They particularly worship the dragon god and a sacred bird, two entities in the legend of the birth of the ethnic Dayak. This legend is akin to the ancient Vietnamese people of the Hung Vuong era, who considered themselves to be the descendent of a "Dragon and Celestial entitiy" and honored a sacred bird as a symbol and totem of the country.
The Dayaks also has many folk customs akin to the ancient Vietnamese such as erecting ceremonial poles, customs in mariage, burial, and other traditional beliefs. A similar custom of the ancient Vietnamese and the Dayak, little seen in other ethnic groups in the region, is the custom of tattooing.
For the Dayak, tattoos express their relationship with the spirits, gods or ancestors and to banish disease, disaster, as well as ceremonies marking the coming of age, recognizing hierachy, status in tribal or distinguish friends from foes. The Dayak dress is also very similar to those of the Hung Vuong era, they use similar headgear that is decorated with long feathers, like the images depicted on the Dong Son bronze drum.
Dayak women's costumes varies by region, but are made from brocade gown, decorated with bright patterns. They wear decorative headgear on special occasions. Dayak women often stretch their earlobes with heavy metal bracelet.This is pretty similar to how the ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands of Vietnam such as Ede, Bana, M'nông, Ma ...
Traditionally, several generations live together in a Dayak stilt house of over 50m in length, has a capacity for 30 - 40 families and has meticulously carved patterns. The long house is also where the Dayak people gather, present offering on the worship alter, playing gongs and drums, dancing in traditional festivals. The colors, shapes, patterns are carved onto the house structure all has their own meaning. Unfortunately, these houses are slowly disappearing in our modernised age.
The Dayak have one particular practice that is internationally known: head-hunting among the tribes. This is how they protect their territories and how their warriors assert their power. The main weapons of the headhunter are spears and shield. The skulls will be kept indoors and used in many different rituals. Few people know that the nation of the central Vietnam region also had a similar head-hunting tradition. This is recognized by the French scholar, accordingly, head hunting people of rival villages is a major task to ask the spiritual world for better weather, avoiding pests, diseases and other calamities.
The Dayak people continue to practice head hunting until the 1970s, but that tradition has now been eradicated. In terms of art, the Dayak are famous for their ngajat dance, inspired by the battle of the warriors.They also use a variety of different traditional music instruments.
@Indos, @madokafc @Reashot Xigwin @Nihonjin1051 @JaiMin, etc.
I think it was intended to be off topic from the beginning. I doubt the thread was created to discuss anti-Vietnam sentiments against Viet-Chinese, but to prove another point, which Im not really sure of but find it a bit weird.
